VP of Cybersecurity Services

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a VP of Cybersecurity Services.

The VP of Cybersecurity Services will have three main duties:

This leader will serve as the lead cyber delivery person for Edgewater's key cybersecurity customer. This leader will be point person on delivery of enterprise scale cybersecurity programs and professional services, ensuring alignment with agency priorities, federal mandates, and evolving threat landscapes. As a seasoned "triple-threat," the role demands expertise in managing complex cybersecurity operations, nurturing high-impact relationships with senior client stakeholders, including the agency CIO, CISO, and GS-15 Division Directors, and guiding multidisciplinary teams to deliver operational excellence. The Cybersecurity
• Executive will oversee and integrate efforts across Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat
• Hunting, Red and Purple Teaming, Detection Engineering, 24x7x365 SOC
• Monitoring and Alert Triage, Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Malware
• Analysis, Vulnerability Management, Data Protection, Secure Configuration
• Management, Security Engineering, and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM). They will ensure cybersecurity workflows, staff performance, and mission outcomes are consistently optimized for effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation. Success in this role requires deep technical fluency, exceptional leadership, and the ability to drive outcomes in a high-stakes, high-visibility federal environment.
• This leader will serve as solution architect for ongoing Edgewater pursuit through direct conversations with the prospective clients, development of proposal materials, development of concept of operations (ConOps), written proposal responses, staffing models based on scope and complexity of work.
• This leader will help build cybersecurity practice within the CTO group. These duties include development of cybersecurity capabilities, development of cybersecurity technology stack to support endpoint detection and response, development of marketing materials and white papers, hiring of talent, training of talent, and providing guidance for their career advancement.

• Stay ahead of emerging threats and technologies, recommending proactive strategies to enhance our security posture.
• Provide strategic and technical oversight of cybersecurity tools and platforms, guiding system administration, security engineering, tool integration, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code development to support cybersecurity mission continuity and maturity.
• Serve as the senior delivery executive responsible for executing a high-visibility cybersecurity contract for a national health and scientific research agency, ensuring timely, within-budget, and technically compliant delivery of all contract tasks, milestones, and deliverables.
• Provide strategic oversight of all Cybersecurity Operations (CSO) activities, ensuring proactive detection, rapid triage, containment, remediation, and forensic analysis of cybersecurity incidents across CLIENT's hybrid enterprise environment, in alignment with NIST SP 800-61 and federal reporting mandates.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams delivering Tier 1 through Tier 3 cyber operations, including 24x7x365 SOC monitoring, incident response, cyber threat hunting, red team exercises, digital forensics, malware analysis, and adversary simulation-ensuring timely response to advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day exploits.
• Deliver enterprise-wide Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) services, integrating intelligence requirements into CSO workflows, guiding IOC development, and ensuring actionable insights are disseminated to defend against nation-state and cybercriminal campaigns.
• Drive the development and continuous refinement of playbooks, SOPs, detection rules, and automation capabilities supporting Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), SOAR, and behavioral analytics tools, ensuring scalable, repeatable response procedures across CSO functions.
• Oversee the delivery of all CSO and forensic deliverables, including security incident tickets, chain of custody records, daily remediation reports, after-action reviews, monthly forensic activity summaries, and leadership briefings on significant events.
• Lead enterprise Vulnerability Management and Data Protection initiatives, ensuring that vulnerability scanning, configuration baseline compliance, and remediation efforts are prioritized based on threat intelligence and aligned with CDM and HVA requirements.
• Support CLIENT's Data Protection strategy, overseeing contractor support for data loss prevention (DLP), sensitive data discovery, classification, and enforcement of policies to prevent unauthorized access, leakage, or exfiltration of PII, PHI, and intellectual property.
• Lead CLIENT's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program delivery, aligning CDM capabilities with the enterprise security architecture, and overseeing the delivery of CLIENT-specific CDM strategies, assessments, tool integration plans, and mitigation procedures.
• Collaborate with sales and proposal teams to develop cybersecurity solutions for new business opportunities.
• Ensure the organization adheres to relevant cybersecurity regulations, standards, and frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Ensure operational resilience and system availability of cybersecurity platforms by enforcing contingency planning, uptime metrics, and rapid recovery from system outages, and by maintaining accurate tool maintenance logs, uptime statistics, and remediation reports.
• Risk Management:Identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks across all business units.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Serve as the primary cybersecurity advisor to executive leadership, clients, and internal teams.

• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity program management, cyber operations leadership, or delivery oversight roles supporting federal government or enterprise clients, with at least 5 years managing multi-functional cyber teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field from an accredited institution; Master's degree preferred.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) or PgMP (Program Management Professional) certification, demonstrating mastery of program and project delivery standards in federal contracting environments.
• At least 7 years of experience serving as a senior cybersecurity advisor or subject matter expert (SME), including leadership of enterprise detection, response, vulnerability management, and cyber threat intelligence programs.
• Top-tier cybersecurity certifications, including one or more of the following:
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• GIAC GCIA (Intrusion Analyst), GCIH (Incident Handler), or GCFA (Forensic Analyst)
• OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) or OSCE/OSWA (advanced red/purple team)
• CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
• CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control)
• CDPSE (Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer)
• AWS/GCP/Azure Security Certifications for cloud security leadership
• Extensive experience with NIST SP 800-53, 800-61, 800-137, and the CDM framework, with proven ability to apply these standards to enterprise-level cybersecurity operations and federal compliance programs.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing large-scale 24x7x365 Cybersecurity Operations Centers (SOCs) and leading cyber disciplines including CTI, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Forensics, Vulnerability Management, and Security Engineering.
• Experience managing high-sensitivity environments handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), PII, PHI, and supporting systems designated High Impact per FIPS 199.
• Proven ability to influence and engage with C-level and SES federal stakeholders, including CIOs, CISOs, GS-15 Division Directors, and security leadership across agencies.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity toolsets, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability scanners, threat intelligence platforms, forensic toolkits, and cloud-native security controls.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent task orders and delivery teams, including the development and execution of Task Order Management Plans, Quality Assurance Plans, and Incident Response Playbooks.
• Familiarity with federal security incident reporting requirements (e.g., US-CERT, HHS CSIRC) and experience coordinating high-impact incident response efforts, including chain-of-custody and forensic investigations.
• Strong knowledge of and hands-on leadership with DevSecOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), and security automation and orchestration initiatives to modernize cybersecurity operations.
• Demonstrated experience with NIH, HHS, or other federal health science agencies is highly desirable, including experience navigating complex multi-IC or multi-agency governance structures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to prepare and deliver executive briefings, status reports, and technical documentation for government stakeholders.

About Us:

Founded in 2002, Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. is an industry-recognized federal contractor. Our industry-leading team combines federal expertise and state-of-the-art innovation to provide quality technical solutions for modern-day challenges. Edgewater is a repeat awardee of such honors as Washington Post Top Workplaces (2018-2025) and Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies (2019-2024). We also have CMMI and ISO certifications. We are headquartered in Frederick, Maryland with staff across the United States. Edgewater has more than 500 employees supporting over 30 federal and commercial organizations.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law.