Cybersecurity Executives

Cybersecurity Executives

Department: Department of Homeland Security

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $176000 - $238200 Per Year

Job Summary: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recruiting professionals to support a range of executive roles within the United States Secret Service (USSS), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), including Executive Director of Cyber, Infrastructure, Platforms, and Mission Delivery. All positions are in the DHS Cybersecurity Service.

Major Duties:

• The Executives are responsible for implementing the programs necessary to align the United States Secret Service Information Technology (IT) personnel, resources, and assets. This includes all systems and infrastructure that support Department-wide missions and activities, required to lead a unified DHS effort to prevent and deter terrorist attacks. As a Cybersecurity Executive in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, you will lead and oversee multifaceted aspects of the United States Secret Service mission, programs, and personnel. You will apply your technical executive leadership expertise to: Ensure day-to-day operational synchronicity within the agency to implement and manage programs necessary to align US Secret Service IT personnel, resources and assets or detect and evict adversaries from U.S. networks. Provide strategic oversight for developing, exercising, and coordinating execution of operational plans, including supporting the development of the OCIO Strategic Plan. Formulate programs, priorities, and policies supporting the OCIO's objectives. Guide leaders and teams within and across US Secret Service to meet operational compliance requirements, steward agency finances, and effectively manage, reduce, and mitigate increasing cybersecurity risks. Develop and maintain incident response plans, ensuring rapid detection, containment, and mitigation of cyber incidents. Supervise and assign work to be accomplished by subordinates leading large growing teams in dynamic environments working to reduce the prevalence of vulnerabilities and exploitable conditions that are most likely to be used by malicious actors to achieve their goals. This includes planning and establishing work schedules, determining performance standards, and evaluating work performance, counseling employees on work and administrative matters, selecting candidates for vacancies, resolving complaints, effecting disciplinary actions, promoting employee development, and ensures that subordinates comply with laws, regulations, and DHS policies pertaining to ethics, security, travel, safety, procurement, fiscal management, and other areas, as appropriate. Advise senior USSS leaders with decision-making related to a variety of information technology priorities. Oversee the development, implementation, and management of policies, standards, and guidance in accordance with federal laws, regulations, and DHS Directives. Manage operational partnerships with Federal, State, local, territorial, tribal government partners, international, and industry stakeholders, integrating requisite operational capabilities, resources, and processes for meeting specific mission needs and expand USSS cybersecurity capabilities, technical products, and guidance. Serve as a Directorate representative in meetings with senior officials, local governments, and senior executives in the public and private sectors. Determine scope of change needed to maintain security authentication technology for appropriateness and compliance to allow for a secure and trusted computing environment. Ensure Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliance for the Office. Controls allocation of resources and budget formulation for the integration of security programs across disciplines. Lead the evaluation of the agency mission, goals, and plans to develop an IT architecture plan. Develop long-range plans identifying and evaluating new information technologies to improve productivity, reliability, and resource utilization for information systems, modifying organizational structure(s) accordingly to coincide and accommodate IT infrastructure support goals and objectives.

Qualifications: These opportunities are in the Executive Track. DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise. Cybersecurity Executives generally have 15+ years of cybersecurity work experience and 5+ years of leadership experience and are either: Capable of serving as an executive-level cybersecurity manager who serves as a Component senior functional authority--or DHS-wide leader--and oversees multiple, highly visible Component or DHS cybersecurity programs; or Capable of serving as a seasoned cybersecurity executive who serves as a DHS-wide cybersecurity leader overseeing expansive, national cybersecurity programs, and multiple multi-level organizations as direct reports to presidential appointees. DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise. In recruiting for this opportunity, DHS may hire employees at higher or lower career levels and associated salaries. To learn more about DHS Cybersecurity Service career tracks and levels, visit our application portal.

How to Apply: To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online questionnaire, required assessments, and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 05/19/2026 to receive consideration. The application process will follow the bullets outlined below. To begin the application process, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. After submitting an online application, you will be notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA HIRE platform. This message will be delivered via email notification. If you are asked to take the online assessments, you will be presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning online assessments. Note: set aside at least 3 hours to take these assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue at a later time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found on the Additional Application Information page that can be located in the application record in your USAJOBS account. Reasonable Accommodation Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended, that would interfere with completing online assessments on the USA HIRE platform, you will be granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodation in your online application. Requests for Reasonable Accommodations for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for Reasonable Accommodation must be received prior to starting the online assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the online assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the online assessments. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodation, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for online assessments here: http://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodations_for_USA_Hire.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-19