Cyber Readiness & Exercises Manager

Manager, Cyber Readiness & Exercises 

The Manager, Cyber Exercises & Simulations is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously maturing the enterprise wide cybersecurity exercise and simulation program. This role oversees the strategy, development, execution, governance, and continuous improvement of cyber exercises and simulations designed to validate organizational preparedness, response capabilities, operational resilience, and alignment with enterprise cyber defense objectives.

The Manager, Cyber Exercises & Simulations leads a team of cybersecurity professionals responsible for designing, developing, executing, and assessing exercises across multiple audiences and organizational levels. The role also oversees talent acquisition, development, workforce planning, program governance, documentation, metrics, reporting, and stakeholder engagement to ensure exercises produce measurable outcomes that strengthen organizational cyber resilience.

This position is well suited for a cyber exercise and simulation leader who understands how to build and execute realistic and impactful scenarios that strengthen response readiness against cyber threats.

Work Arrangement

Locations & Work Arrangement: Remote is not an option, candidates must be willing to commute to one of the following hub locations with a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week with flexibility in one of the following hubs:
 

• Phoenix, AZ
• Charlotte, NC
• Johnston, RI
• Boston or Westwood, MA
• Marlton, NJ

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, governance, maturity, and continuous improvement of the enterprise Cyber Security Exercise & Simulation Program, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

• Oversee the design, development, execution, and evaluation of cyber exercises and simulations across technical, operational, executive, and business stakeholder audiences.

• Develop and maintain a cyber scenario library that incorporates the current state of organizational functions, capabilities, and known gaps.

• Establish and maintain program methodologies, procedures, templates, playbooks, and documentation to ensure consistency, quality, and audit readiness.

• Ensure exercise scenarios incorporate organizational risks, threat intelligence, emerging cyber threats, industry trends, and evolving adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.

• Define, track, and report program metrics, maturity measures, and effectiveness measures to demonstrate improvements in organizational preparedness and resilience.