Offensive Cyber Operations Planner

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

CYBER OPERATIONS PLANNER PRINCIPAL
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cyber Operations Planner Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cyber Operations Planner Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of U.S. Cyber Command

The Offensive Cyber Operations Planner within U.S. Cyber Command J3 plays a critical role in designing and synchronizing offensive cyberspace strategies to disrupt, degrade, or exploit adversary systems. This forward-oriented role ensures future operations planning aligns with Combatant Command priorities, legal frameworks, and emerging technologies to achieve strategic cyber-effects. Planners work across joint forces, interagency partners, and allied entities to deliver precise and impactful cyber campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Future Campaign Planning and Execution:
  Develop offensive cyber plans aligned with Combatant Command objectives, integrating cyberspace capabilities into multi-domain operations (air, maritime, land, space, and cyberspace).
  Leverage advanced planning tools, including the Joint Planning Process (JPP) and Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES), to refine future operations.
• Stakeholder Coordination:
  Collaborate across USCYBERCOM components, interagency partners, multinational allies, and joint forces to synchronize offensive plans, ensuring alignment and deconfliction with broader operational priorities.
• Adversarial Targeting and Exploitation:
  Conduct intelligence-driven cyber vulnerability assessments and develop detailed operational plans to disrupt adversary systems while minimizing collateral effects.
  Maintain strategic prioritizations for future cyber campaigns.
• Compliance and Oversight:
  Work closely with legal advisors to ensure operations comply with Fourth Amendment principles, such as reasonableness and appropriate authorization frameworks, including Rules of Engagement (ROEs).
  Integrate ethical standards into planning, ensuring adherence to constitutional protections while achieving mission objectives.
• Innovative Strategy Development:
  Explore and integrate emerging offensive tools, such as AI-based exploit development, autonomous cyberweaponry, and capabilities to counter adversarial quantum computing threats.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cyber Operations Planner Principal must have:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Strategic Studies, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Completion of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase I required; JPME Phase II preferred for strategic-level roles.
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience
• Security clearance level: Active TS/SCI clearance. Successful completion of a polygraph required.
• US citizenship required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in cyber at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your focus on defending and protecting what matters. #praxisjobs

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

8 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required