COMSEC Manager (CRO) (TS//SCI)

About This Role

This role involves leading and managing the company's COMSEC program, ensuring compliance with DOW and Intelligence Community security requirements. The COMSEC Manager will safeguard classified information across multiple sensitivity levels, drive a culture of security awareness, and provide day-to-day support for Collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), and Special Access Program (SAP) activities. This high-impact position requires expertise in COMSEC procedures, including the acquisition, maintenance, operations, and disposition of COMSEC equipment, and serving as the Network Designer Lead for DOW and Intelligence Community customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the organization's COMSEC program, ensuring compliance with national security policies, standards, and regulations (e.g., NIST, FIPS, DOW directives)
• Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and safety standards
• Own COMSEC account management, custodian duties, and encryption device configuration and maintenance
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure integration of COMSEC measures into broader IT and security strategies
• Provide expert advice and guidance on COMSEC issues to leadership, staff, and other stakeholders
• Maintain a current inventory of all Controlled Cryptographic Items (CCI) material
• Coordinate system maintenance, monitoring, and installation of COMSEC equipment across multiple WAN/LAN environments
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for capabilities, operations, and technologies, including guidance on forecasting cryptographic equipment needs
• Assist with the development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation for all communications security configuration upgrades, additions, or revisions, obtaining customer approval prior to implementation
• Evaluate and recommend technology upgrades and changes to address performance, standardization, and industry best practices
• Perform audits and assessments of COMSEC operations to ensure program effectiveness and efficiency
• Maintain current knowledge of emerging threats and new technologies within the COMSEC domain
• Conduct inventories and inspections of secure equipment (e.g., secure telephone and encryption devices) and classified keying material, and provide related COMSEC support and oversight
• Administer a Top Secret inventory and document control program to account for COMSEC equipment and materials
• Install secure telephone equipment (STE) and coordinate delivery of encryption devices and keying material to IT specialists maintaining classified networks
• Conduct inventories in accordance with agency policy and report any discrepancies to the government customer
• Enforce compliance with NSA Central Security Service Policy Manual No. 3-16, related COMSEC derivatives, and DOW and IC COMSEC standards