Risk Manager

Job Description
WarCollar Industries has an immediate opportunity for an experienced Cyber Incident Risk Manager to support a mission-critical Intelligence Community customer in McLean, VA. The Cyber Incident Risk Manager will lead external partner engagements, inter-agency coordination, and cyber incident risk management efforts involving events that may present physical, technical, or operational threats.

This position will serve as a critical liaison between internal mission teams, external agencies, and inter-agency partners, ensuring cyber incidents are appropriately evaluated, coordinated, and resolved through established adjudication and mitigation processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong cybersecurity governance and incident response experience, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to develop executive-level Situation Reports (SITREPs), manage sensitive Requests for Information (RFIs), and coordinate complex investigations across multiple organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate external engagements involving cyber incidents that may present physical, technical, or operational threats.
• Collaborate with internal offices, external agencies, and mission partners through established workflows to support incident reviews and adjudication requirements.
• Manage referred cyber incident cases from initial intake through final mitigation and adjudication, ensuring appropriate coordination with agencies and external partners utilizing customer systems.
• Facilitate incident mitigation efforts by coordinating stakeholders, tracking resolution activities, and ensuring appropriate follow-through.
• Develop, draft, and submit executive-level Situation Reports (SITREPs), formal incident reports, briefings, and time-sensitive notifications.
• Review, coordinate, and filter Requests for Information (RFIs) and other sensitive inquiries requiring organizational review outside established workflows.
• Maintain and report 30-day incident metrics, tracking Risk Manager involvement, case status, mitigation progress, and adjudication outcomes.
• Ensure the proper preservation, documentation, and protection of data, evidence, and investigative materials associated with formal investigative processes.
• Provide risk management guidance and support to leadership and mission partners throughout the cyber incident lifecycle.

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Required Skills

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in risk management, cyber incident response coordination, cybersecurity governance, or a related discipline within the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or inter-agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing and authoring high-level SITREPs, executive briefings, and formal incident reporting.
• Experience coordinating multi-agency engagements and managing sensitive Requests for Information (RFIs).
• Strong understanding of cyber incident management, risk assessment, mitigation processes, and investigative coordination.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams, senior leadership, and external mission partners.

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Desired Skills

• Previous experience serving as an Agency Security Officer (ASO).
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity Policy, Information Assurance, Investigations, Internal Security, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community security operations, inter-agency investigations, and sensitive incident adjudication processes.
• Familiarity with preserving investigative evidence, maintaining incident documentation, and coordinating mitigation activities across organizational boundaries.

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About WarCollar Industries
About us:
WarCollar Industries, LLC is a veteran-owned small business. We maintain a team of cybersecurity experts committed to protecting complicated data and distribution systems and providing decision makers with the most accurate assessment of residual risk possible. We work with our clients to solve the toughest challenges in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Services include network defense, computer network attack, secure network design, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. WarCollar enables its clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across their entire enterprise.

WarCollar offers generous benefits including: Medical insurance premium coverage; PTO based on billable hours; federal holidays plus your birthday; matching 401k, education reimbursement plus paid training days; performance bonuses; referral bonuses; government shutdown protection; monthly team building events plus two major social events annually.

WarCollar Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. WarCollar does not discriminate in employment based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, status as a protected military veteran, or other non-merit factor.