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Chief Information Officer
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Posted today
HybridArlington, VA$190K – $258KApply by May 29, 2026DHS Cybersecurity Specialist (For DHS use only)ENTJESTJINTJISTJEngineering
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recruiting for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). This position is in the DHS Cybersecurity Service.
What You'll Do
- →As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), you will serve as the CISA liaison to the DHS CIO and participate in information technology (IT) planning, oversight, and leadership initiatives.
- →You will lead the delivery of CISA enterprise-wide solutions and services to meet the Agency's internal Information technology and communications needs.
- →You will create and oversee policies and procedures facilitating activities such as IT strategic planning, architecture, capital planning and investment control for IT investments, and participation in DHS and CISA governance bodies.
- →You will serve as the executive overseeing the programs setting the technology strategy of the Agency (Chief Technology Officer) and ensuring the security of the IT systems of the Agency (Chief Information Security Officer).
- →As a Senior Cybersecurity Executive in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, you will lead and oversee multifaceted aspects of OCIO's mission, programs, and personnel.
- →You will apply your technical executive leadership expertise to: Serve as an Agency strategic advisor to the CISA Deputy Director, aligning IT objectives and programs with Agency strategy, ensuring a steady state IT operations environment.
- →Develop and monitor business performance criteria and service levels, contingency planning and support for business continuity, logistics for hardware and software assets, and long-range planning for the sustained growth of a modern IT business enterprise.
- →Oversee IT acquisition programs in coordination with DHS, implementing statutory requirements such as FITARA, and ensuring compliance with OMB policy (e.g., Improving the Acquisition and Management of Common IT).
- →Manage day-to-day enterprise IT service operations and communication needs for a national Agency, with a regional footprint (e.g., customer advocacy, project management, asset management, software license management, and IT support operations).
- →Actively oversees monitoring of IT projects ensuring quality, performance, and on schedule delivery within budget.
- →Manage the IT investment review process, recommending new IT projects, program activities, priorities, and funding in support of the CISA Mission, anticipating future IT business enterprise needs.
- →Develop recommendations for revisions to funding, and exercise authority to reprogram funds within budgetary allotments in alignment with Federal Acquisition Regulations, OMB Circular A-11, the EGovernment Act, OPM regulation/circulars and/or the roles and responsibilities delegated to the Chief Information Technology Officer through the Clinger-Cohen Act.
- →Lead and supervise a diversely skilled staff engaged in substantive professional, technical, and administrative work of an IT management nature.
- →Provide leadership, oversight, and guidance to subordinate managers developing policy, plans, and strategy in compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and standards in support of organizational information technology activities.
Requirements
- ✓Degrees are not required for jobs in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, but DHS is interested in your level of education and the topics you studied.
- ✓As you submit initial application information, you will be asked questions about your education.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 703d395c-c4ac-4abd-8d24-b954e86f9625
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