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CYBER OPERATIONS PLANS ANALYST

Joint Activities

Department of the Army

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Location

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$150,424 - $197,200

per year

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SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves advising on cyber strategy, policy, and planning for military operations at U.S.

Cyber Command, focusing on both offensive and defensive cyber activities to support national defense efforts.

The role requires working with experts to develop detailed plans, assess strategies, and ensure cyber operations fit into larger military campaigns.

It's ideal for experienced professionals with a strong background in cybersecurity and military planning who thrive in high-stakes, collaborative environments.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience in cyberspace program strategy, plans, and policy analysis
  • Expertise in developing and reviewing cyber warfare operation-level plans (OPLANs) and orders (OPORDERs)
  • Knowledge of joint campaigning, contingency planning, and Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO)
  • Proficiency in the Joint Operations Planning Process (JOPP) for documenting and reviewing plans
  • Ability to provide assessments and integrate supporting annexes in contingency and crisis action plans
  • Skills in coordinating and advocating for cyberspace operations issues related to strategy, policy, doctrine, and organizations
  • Eligibility under DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) with proof of employment authority, including veterans' preference if applicable

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the U.S.

Cyber Command in Fort Meade, Maryland. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Senior Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by providing guidance and in-depth analysis on cyberspace program strategy, plans and policy; leading efforts to document, evaluate, and improve work processes; and developing cyberspace operations guidance utilizing automated systems.

Major Duties:

  • Provides recognized-expert consulting support for joint strategy, policy, and doctrine development and program support reviews to assure offensive and defensive Operations, Activities and Investments (OAIs) provide the desired results.
  • Provides expert consulting to the development, review, coordination and cross-regional integration/de-confliction of cyber warfare-related operation-level plans (OPLANs) and orders (OPORDERs).
  • Engages in joint campaigning, contingency, Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) planning and strategic assessments with senior cyberspace operations Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
  • Makes effective use of the Joint Operations Planning Process (JOPP) to ensure proposed plans are defined and documented to facilitate and capture results of the iterative review process.
  • Provides authoritative assessments of and assists in the development and integration of supporting annexes in OPLANs and other contingency and crisis action plans.
  • Coordinates, develop and advocate for existing, emerging and long-range issues related to cyberspace operations planning, strategy, policy, doctrine, and organizations.
  • Ensure effective integration of cyberspace operations as a critical element of broad-based war fighting plans.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/16/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/16/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DAKB-26-12933923-CES