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Senior IT Advisor to Military Health System Chief Information Officer
Defense Health Agency · Posted 123 days ago
Hybrid Charleston, SC $152K – $228K Apply by May 28, 2026 Information Technology Management ENTJESTJINTJISTJ
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About the Position: You will serve as the Senior Information Technology (IT) Advisor for Military Health System/Chief Information Officer (MHS/CIO) located in the Defense Health Agency (DHA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Health Affairs (OASW(HA)). Position may be filled at Falls Church, VA, San Antonio, TX OR Charleston, SC. This is not a virtual/remote position. You must live within or be willing to relocate within a commutable distance of one of the above duty locations.
What You'll Do
- →Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on engineering solutions delivered to the Military Health System (MHS) enterprise and the DHA Chief Information Security Officer to advise on the Agency’s Cyber Security Program.
- →Advise MHS CIO, other DHA and MHS senior officials on technical and engineering strategy, business operations, cyber security strategy, and architecture of DHA IT infrastructure, networks, and platforms.
- →Provide strategic guidance and expert advice for enterprise IT solutions aligning with Departmental policies and adhering to industry’s best practices.
- →Serve as an SME resource to DHA IT infrastructure architecture designers, engineers, and testers of solutions that support medical systems.
- →Advise on the detailed analysis of existing network, platform, and computing infrastructure and recommend actionable design changes and cybersecurity enhancements and protections to optimize networking and computing infrastructure.
- →Advise on the safeguarding, and the information security posture on protection of the cyber infrastructure of forward deployed sites, and the associated IT, network, and computing infrastructure required to securely operate them.
- →Provide expert technical advice on research, development, and evaluation of advanced cyber defense technologies supporting the DHA, DoW, and national security missions.
- →Advise on new technologies and offer recommendations for their applicability or integration with existing architecture.
- →Align and partner with project management personnel and solutions architect to identify potential roadblocks and propose plans to overcome them.
- →Advise leadership on policy issues or action cases that involve the identification, evaluation, selection, application, and technical insertion of new, emerging, and existing IT infrastructure supporting healthcare and administrative functions.
- →Advise on cyber security, information security requirements and risks and security requirements specific to an IT system throughout the phases of the system life cycle.
- →Advise on IT cybersecurity strategies, policies, controls, and procedures to protect DHA data, systems and infrastructure from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, and destruction.
- →Advise on information security protections commensurate with risk and magnitude of the harm resulting from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of information collected or maintained by on behalf of DHA.
- →Advise on engineering, development, planning, and configuration management of IM/IT infrastructure, networks, and platforms.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 93220028-35cc-4087-9ef9-8745b693d78a
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