Careers in Defense, Intelligence & Group Functions
Your Expertise. Our Mission. Global Impact.
Join us in Arlington for a one-day hiring experience featuring 19 Defense & Intelligence opportunities and four Group leadership roles in legal, sourcing and procurement, IT, and people & culture. All positions will be based in Arlington or Tysons, Virginia, with the specific office assignment to be confirmed during recruitment. Explore the roles, select your interests and upload your resume before meeting our team in person.
Why this event
More than a job fair. A direct introduction to the mission, the teams and the opportunities.
We are bringing together experienced defense, intelligence and technology professionals, including former DoD and Intelligence Community talent. We are also recruiting four senior Group leaders in legal, sourcing and procurement, information technology, and people & culture. See each role for its location and eligibility requirements.
Meet the people shaping the work
Talk directly with leaders, recruiters and functional teams instead of navigating a generic career fair.
Understand the opportunity before you apply
Explore role details, priorities and clearance expectations, then select the positions that best fit your experience.
One registration, one resume
Tell us what interests you and upload your resume once so the team can prepare for the most relevant conversations.
Explore the opportunities
Choose the roles you want to discuss with us
Explore 19 Defense & Intelligence roles and four Group leadership opportunities. Review each role without leaving the page, select up to five that interest you and carry your selection into registration.
Work locations: Arlington or Tysons, Virginia. The specific office will be confirmed during the recruitment process. The Job Fair itself is held in Arlington.
Also recruiting for Group leadership
Explore four Group leadership opportunities based in Northern Virginia, supporting Cybastion globally.
Senior Security Officer
✓Own personnel security across the Defense & Intelligence Business Unit, including clearance-file preparation, eligibility monitoring, internal access decisions, security…
Executive Assistant
✓Support NDI leadership through complex calendar and travel management, request filtering, decision-file preparation, official visits and disciplined tracking of…
Compliance Officer
✓Own export-control and regulatory compliance across technology and data transfers, licensing, counterparty diligence and transaction review, with authority to stop a…
Paralegal
✓Provide contract administration and legal support, maintaining approved templates, negotiated versions, obligation tracking and timely escalation of issues requiring…
Sourcing & Procurement Manager
✓Lead Business Unit procurement across classified and unclassified programmes, balancing lead time, quality, total cost, supplier performance and dependency rather than…
Senior Technical Director
✓Hold technical authority for NDI across requirements, architecture, design reviews, qualification, deviations and customer acceptance, while building a sustainable…
Data Fusion Director
✓Own and deliver the Fusion Center platform through operational handover, including data governance, architecture, performance, analytics and sustainable operational…
Senior IT Architect
✓Own enterprise and mission architecture through reusable reference architectures, design reviews, controlled exceptions, technical-debt management and traceable security…
Software Engineer
✓Build and maintain production-ready data ingestion, integration, interface and mission-tooling components with testing, observability, traceability and clean operational…
Systems Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform Operations)
✓Deploy, operate and maintain NDI infrastructure and platform environments at headquarters and in country programmes, emphasizing automation, availability, recovery…
IT / Telecom Engineer
✓Design, commission and operate terrestrial, radio and satellite-ground connectivity for headquarters and country programmes, including service levels, degraded modes and…
Embedded Platform Expert (RDK)
✓Own build reproducibility, device-platform compatibility, dependencies, releases, rollback and qualification evidence for the deployed equipment base, once the…
Head of Intelligence
✓Lead NDI’s intelligence capability strategy, service catalogue, professional doctrine, specialist resources and priority arbitration while delegating daily production…
Intelligence Production Director
✓Run NDI’s intelligence production cycle and analytical quality under written delegation, with authority to validate, withhold, version and correct products before and…
SIGINT / COMINT Expert
✓Provide signals and communications intelligence expertise through feasibility studies, capability assessments, analytical contributions and training within the customer…
HUMINT Methodology and Training Expert
✓Provide HUMINT methodology, advisory and instructional expertise by diagnosing capability needs, designing and delivering authorised training, assessing learning and…
Mobile Network Systems Expert (IMSI)
✓Specify, technically accept, train operators and govern the use of mobile-network technical systems, with technical acceptance kept separate from legal authorisation…
Finance Director
✓Own NDI finance across programme margin, cash, working capital, currency exposure, financing, pricing support and the control environment for U.S. and country entities.
Accountant
✓Maintain NDI accounting records and first-level financial control while preserving the separation between preparation, verification and payment authorisation.
General Legal Counsel
✓Lead Cybastion’s Group legal function across entities and jurisdictions, with immediate priorities in entity structuring, cross-border contracts, structured…
Director, Sourcing & Procurement
✓Lead Group-wide sourcing, procurement and supply-chain execution across HQ, Business Units, Country Units and projects, protecting cost, margin, delivery…
Chief Information Officer
✓Lead the Group’s IT strategy, enterprise architecture and shared systems across Business Units and countries, including IT governance, service continuity…
Director, People & Culture – US & Europe
✓Lead People & Culture operations across the United States and Europe, ensuring effective talent management, HR compliance, organizational development…
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Executive & Security
Senior Security Officer
Own personnel security across the Defense & Intelligence Business Unit, including clearance-file preparation, eligibility monitoring, internal access decisions, security briefings and incident response.
Mission
Own personnel security for the Defense & Intelligence Business Unit, closing the gap between government clearance processes and Cybastion’s own internal access controls.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain clearance files and track eligibility through the competent authority.
- Decide, review and withdraw internal access to Business Unit systems, facilities and information.
- Deliver security briefings and coordinate personnel-security incidents, travel and country-team requirements.
Your profile
- Substantial personnel or industrial security experience in the defense or intelligence community.
- Demonstrated experience building a screening and access framework where none existed.
- Strong judgement on the boundary between employer verification, internal access and government clearance.
Executive & Security
Executive Assistant
Support NDI leadership through complex calendar and travel management, request filtering, decision-file preparation, official visits and disciplined tracking of executive decisions.
Mission
Provide executive support to NDI leadership while maintaining clear priority rules, controlled information access and reliable decision follow-through.
Key responsibilities
- Manage executive calendars and travel across time zones.
- Filter requests and route them to the right owner instead of defaulting everything to the executive.
- Prepare meetings, decision files, official visits and the decision register.
Your profile
- Experience supporting senior executives, preferably in defense, government or another regulated sector.
- Strong judgement, discretion and organisation under competing priorities.
- Ability to prepare clear executive materials and track actions to closure.
Legal & Compliance
Compliance Officer
Own export-control and regulatory compliance across technology and data transfers, licensing, counterparty diligence and transaction review, with authority to stop a prohibited commitment or transfer.
Mission
Own export-control and regulatory compliance for the Defense & Intelligence Business Unit, including the parts of the risk that extend beyond physical shipments.
Key responsibilities
- Classify products, technologies and services and manage licence requirements.
- Screen counterparties, intermediaries, agents and end users before commitments are made.
- Clear, condition, refuse or suspend transactions where legal or regulatory issues arise.
Your profile
- Substantial export-control or trade-compliance experience with hands-on classification and licensing work.
- Working knowledge of ITAR, EAR and OFAC frameworks.
- Experience with defense or dual-use items and foreign-government end-user processes.
Legal & Compliance
Paralegal
Provide contract administration and legal support, maintaining approved templates, negotiated versions, obligation tracking and timely escalation of issues requiring counsel.
Mission
Make the Business Unit’s agreements traceable and actionable while keeping legal advice and approval with qualified counsel.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare NDAs, orders and subcontract documents from approved templates.
- Maintain version control, the contract register and post-signature obligation tracking.
- Spot deviations, IP, data-rights and licensing issues and refer them for legal validation.
Your profile
- Paralegal qualification or relevant degree.
- Experience in contract lifecycle management, preferably in government contracting, defense or a regulated sector.
- Precision with documents, versions, dates and escalation boundaries.
Sourcing & Procurement
Sourcing & Procurement Manager
Lead Business Unit procurement across classified and unclassified programmes, balancing lead time, quality, total cost, supplier performance and dependency rather than unit price alone.
Mission
Build and operate the procurement route for NDI across U.S. and country programmes, including long-lead and constrained defense supply.
Key responsibilities
- Set category strategy and run RFI/RFP, evaluation, selection and negotiation cycles.
- Qualify suppliers and manage critical dependencies, obsolescence and sole-source risk.
- Negotiate commercial terms and maintain auditable procurement controls and supplier performance reviews.
Your profile
- Substantial procurement experience including direct defense acquisition.
- Strong supplier-qualification and long-lead-time management experience.
- International shipping and customs experience into emerging markets.
Technical & Engineering
Senior Technical Director
Hold technical authority for NDI across requirements, architecture, design reviews, qualification, deviations and customer acceptance, while building a sustainable technical organisation.
Mission
Guarantee the technical solution and exercise explicit technical authority without absorbing intelligence doctrine or portfolio governance.
Key responsibilities
- Approve technical requirements and architecture direction before customer commitment.
- Chair design reviews, qualification decisions and deviation treatment.
- Arbitrate build, buy or partner choices and maintain engineering standards and technical risk visibility.
Your profile
- Substantial technical leadership in defense, intelligence or national-security programmes.
- Demonstrated ownership of multidisciplinary delivery through customer acceptance.
- Credibility with senior defense and intelligence stakeholders.
Technical & Engineering
Data Fusion Director
Own and deliver the Fusion Center platform through operational handover, including data governance, architecture, performance, analytics and sustainable operational readiness.
Mission
Own the fusion platform and its performance while keeping product definition and analytical validation with the Intelligence function.
Key responsibilities
- Own technical delivery of the Fusion Center through operational handover.
- Establish source ownership, provenance, rights, quality, retention and dissemination rules.
- Design ingestion, storage, processing and assisted analytics for real mission requirements.
Your profile
- Substantial data-engineering or intelligence-systems experience with delivery ownership.
- Demonstrated delivery of a fusion or multi-source analytics capability into operation.
- Prior work in defense, intelligence or national security, including classified-data handling.
Technical & Engineering
Senior IT Architect
Own enterprise and mission architecture through reusable reference architectures, design reviews, controlled exceptions, technical-debt management and traceable security requirements.
Mission
Create a controlled architecture framework that balances cost, availability, sustainment, data sovereignty and deployment constraints across NDI.
Key responsibilities
- Produce reusable reference architectures and documented architecture decisions.
- Chair design reviews and govern time-limited exceptions with remediation paths.
- Map contractual and regulatory requirements to architecture components and implementation evidence.
Your profile
- Substantial enterprise-level IT architecture experience.
- Experience designing systems subject to federal security frameworks with implementation evidence.
- Prior work in defense, intelligence or another compartmented environment.
Technical & Engineering
Software Engineer
Build and maintain production-ready data ingestion, integration, interface and mission-tooling components with testing, observability, traceability and clean operational handover.
Mission
Deliver maintainable software components that another engineer can take over, including defect handling and maintenance after delivery.
Key responsibilities
- Build components against architecture standards and interface specifications.
- Implement testing, observability, error handling, packaging, deployment and rollback.
- Maintain requirement-to-component-to-test traceability and operational documentation.
Your profile
- Professional software-development experience on production components, not only prototypes.
- Prior experience in a defense, intelligence or federal environment is required.
- Experience with data pipelines or systems integration.
Technical & Engineering
Systems Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform Operations)
Deploy, operate and maintain NDI infrastructure and platform environments at headquarters and in country programmes, emphasizing automation, availability, recovery, change control and transferable operations.
Mission
Operate a bounded infrastructure and platform perimeter that can be rebuilt, recovered and handed over rather than depending on one engineer.
Key responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain servers, networks and platform services against approved architecture.
- Automate provisioning and configuration, and maintain baselines and inventories.
- Operate backup, recovery, capacity, incident and change management with documented runbooks.
Your profile
- Infrastructure or platform-operations experience including automation.
- Prior experience in a defense, intelligence or federal environment is required.
- Hands-on hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation and constrained-deployment experience.
Technical & Engineering
IT / Telecom Engineer
Design, commission and operate terrestrial, radio and satellite-ground connectivity for headquarters and country programmes, including service levels, degraded modes and locally executable restoration procedures.
Mission
Own transmission and connectivity services within the architecture framework and make them operable under real field constraints.
Key responsibilities
- Dimension and commission links against operational requirements and site criticality.
- Operate connectivity services, capacity, maintenance, spares and restoration procedures.
- Implement transmission security and coordinate spectrum, licensing and supplier requirements.
Your profile
- Telecommunications or network-engineering experience including field commissioning.
- Experience with satellite or radio transmission ground segment.
- Prior work in a defense, intelligence or federal environment is required.
Technical & Engineering
Embedded Platform Expert (RDK)
Own build reproducibility, device-platform compatibility, dependencies, releases, rollback and qualification evidence for the deployed equipment base, once the technology perimeter is formally confirmed.
Mission
Provide expert capability on the embedded device software platform used by NDI programmes, subject to final confirmation of the exact technology scope and title.
Key responsibilities
- Own device-platform builds, component integration and release management.
- Maintain hardware/software compatibility, dependencies, updates and rollback.
- Define qualification evidence and support secure boot, signed images, hardening and field diagnostics.
Your profile
- Substantial embedded-software or device-platform engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience maintaining a device fleet in the field.
- Specific platform expertise must be assessed against the perimeter confirmed at scoping.
Intelligence
Head of Intelligence
Lead NDI’s intelligence capability strategy, service catalogue, professional doctrine, specialist resources and priority arbitration while delegating daily production and product validation.
Mission
Define what intelligence capability NDI offers, at what standard and within what lawful and contractual boundaries.
Key responsibilities
- Define the intelligence service catalogue, including explicit exclusions.
- Set tradecraft, analytical standards and safeguards for independent judgement.
- Own specialist capability requirements, recruitment and priority arbitration between programmes.
Your profile
- Substantial intelligence experience including leadership of a multi-discipline function.
- Prior service in a U.S. Intelligence Community organisation or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience building a team and a professional standard.
Intelligence
Intelligence Production Director
Run NDI’s intelligence production cycle and analytical quality under written delegation, with authority to validate, withhold, version and correct products before and after dissemination.
Mission
Make sourcing, corroboration, uncertainty and analytical judgement explicit throughout the production cycle.
Key responsibilities
- Operate intake, prioritisation and scheduling of intelligence production.
- Enforce analytical sourcing, corroboration, confidence and contradictory-review standards.
- Validate or withhold products and manage versioning and corrections after dissemination.
Your profile
- Substantial intelligence-production or analysis experience, including leadership of a production function.
- Prior service in a U.S. Intelligence Community organisation or equivalent.
- Experience across more than one intelligence discipline.
Intelligence
SIGINT / COMINT Expert
Provide signals and communications intelligence expertise through feasibility studies, capability assessments, analytical contributions and training within the customer mandate and applicable authorisation.
Mission
Bring specialist SIGINT/COMINT capability to NDI programmes without extending or interpreting the authorised mandate independently.
Key responsibilities
- Assess requirement feasibility and produce written capability opinions.
- Contribute authorised analysis to the Intelligence Production Director’s production cycle.
- Design competence-transfer sequences and assess learning outcomes.
Your profile
- Substantial experience in signals or communications intelligence.
- Relevant technical, analytical or equivalent service background.
- Strong command of mandate boundaries, provenance, quality and handling discipline.
Intelligence
HUMINT Methodology and Training Expert
Provide HUMINT methodology, advisory and instructional expertise by diagnosing capability needs, designing and delivering authorised training, assessing learning and strengthening source-evaluation and reporting standards.
Mission
Build partner capability through methodology and training without substituting for the partner service or crossing the authorised boundary.
Key responsibilities
- Diagnose beneficiary capability needs before designing training.
- Build training sequences with objectives, exercises and assessment.
- Support source evaluation, corroboration and reporting standards within the approved perimeter.
Your profile
- Substantial HUMINT experience including advisory or instructional work.
- Relevant degree or equivalent service background.
- Demonstrated ability to transfer capability and assess what beneficiaries have actually learned.
Intelligence
Mobile Network Systems Expert (IMSI)
Specify, technically accept, train operators and govern the use of mobile-network technical systems, with technical acceptance kept separate from legal authorisation, commercial decisions and analytical validation.
Mission
Provide specialist capability on export-controlled mobile-network technical systems while maintaining strict boundaries around authorised use.
Key responsibilities
- Specify equipment and integration requirements with the technical line.
- Conduct technical acceptance against the approved specification.
- Train operators and support post-transfer governance, controls and technical follow-up.
Your profile
- Substantial experience with mobile-network technical systems.
- Telecommunications, electrical-engineering or equivalent technical background.
- Strong judgement on controlled use, technical acceptance and operational boundaries.
Finance
Finance Director
Own NDI finance across programme margin, cash, working capital, currency exposure, financing, pricing support and the control environment for U.S. and country entities.
Mission
Bring financial control and decision discipline to the portfolio while the Business Unit continues to operate and scale.
Key responsibilities
- Own programme-margin analysis, cash forecasting, collections and working capital.
- Lead financing cases and coordinate eligibility analysis with legal and compliance specialists.
- Establish segregation of duties, thresholds, close discipline and audit readiness.
Your profile
- Substantial finance experience including director-level ownership of a business unit or entity.
- Demonstrated experience structuring and closing financing arrangements.
- Government-contracting cost and pricing experience.
Finance
Accountant
Maintain NDI accounting records and first-level financial control while preserving the separation between preparation, verification and payment authorisation.
Mission
Provide reliable accounting records, reconciliations and evidence while escalating unsupported or ambiguous transactions.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain general, auxiliary and analytical accounting and programme-cost allocation.
- Perform close, reconciliations and first-level verification against approvals and contracts.
- Document and escalate anomalies and maintain the audit evidence trail.
Your profile
- Accounting or finance degree.
- Accounting experience, preferably in government contracting or another regulated environment.
- Strong discipline on reconciliations, evidence and separation of duties.
Group Legal
General Legal Counsel
Lead Cybastion’s Group legal function across entities and jurisdictions, with immediate priorities in entity structuring, cross-border contracts, structured financing and legal risk.
Mission
Build and lead the Group legal function across all entities, Business Units and Country Units, establishing legal standards and enabling secure market expansion and financing.
Key responsibilities
- Build Group legal standards, contract templates, approval routes and the legal team.
- Lead entity creation and corporate governance across multiple jurisdictions, including U.S. and OHADA environments.
- Secure structured financing transactions, key contracts, legal risk and external counsel management.
Your profile
- Master’s degree in law, with a focus on international business law; 12–15 years of relevant experience.
- Proven corporate law, multi-jurisdiction entity creation and project-financing experience.
- Fluent French and English; working expertise across U.S. and francophone African / OHADA contexts.
Group Sourcing & Procurement
Director, Sourcing & Procurement
Lead Group-wide sourcing, procurement and supply-chain execution across HQ, Business Units, Country Units and projects, protecting cost, margin, delivery and compliance.
Mission
Establish procurement strategy, governance and execution discipline across Cybastion’s complex technology and infrastructure projects, reporting to the Chief Capital & Risk Officer.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the HQ procurement team and set sourcing policies, approval frameworks and escalation protocols.
- Oversee strategic vendor relationships and high-value or high-risk procurements across regions.
- Coordinate procurement, logistics, Finance, Legal and PMOs to protect delivery, cost and compliance.
Your profile
- 10+ years in domestic and international sourcing, procurement and end-to-end supply chain.
- Experience managing complex, project-based international procurements and building scalable teams.
- Fluent English; French and experience sourcing for African technology or infrastructure projects are strong advantages.
Group Technology
Chief Information Officer
Lead the Group’s IT strategy, enterprise architecture and shared systems across Business Units and countries, including IT governance, service continuity, budget and vendor oversight.
Mission
Own Group information-systems strategy and governance, providing common standards and shared capabilities without centralising Business Unit-specific technical delivery.
Key responsibilities
- Define the Group IT roadmap, architecture standards and technology governance framework.
- Lead shared-system availability, IT projects, budgets, vendors and business continuity.
- Build Group IT talent and coordinate technology requirements across Business Units and Country Units.
Your profile
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field; 10–15 years in IT, including leadership roles.
- Demonstrated digital-transformation leadership across business units or countries.
- French and working English required; position based in Northern Virginia, with travel across Business Units and countries.
Group People & Culture
Director, People & Culture – US & Europe
Lead People & Culture operations across the United States and Europe, ensuring effective talent management, HR compliance, organizational development and consistent implementation of Cybastion’s Group policies.
Mission
Drive the regional People & Culture agenda, partnering with business leaders to build high-performing teams, strengthen managerial accountability and support organizational growth across multiple jurisdictions.
Key responsibilities
- Lead regional talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee relations and talent development.
- Implement Group policies, compensation frameworks and performance management processes while advising leadership on organizational effectiveness.
- Ensure HR operations and employment practices comply with applicable US and European labor laws.
Your profile
- Substantial HR leadership experience across multiple jurisdictions, including the US and Europe.
- Strong knowledge of US employment practices and European labor regulations, particularly the UK and Luxembourg.
- Proven ability to advise senior leaders, structure HR operations and support growth in an international organization.
Candidate journey
A structured experience, not a sequence of booths
The physical setup supports a clear journey from arrival to conversation, briefing, role discovery and interview.
Welcome & check-in
Fast registration, badges and orientation on arrival.
Coffee & connect
Informal networking with recruiters, leaders and future colleagues.
Cybastion Briefing Room
Short sessions on the mission, what we are building and career opportunities.
Explore roles
Meet teams and discuss the positions you selected during registration.
Interview on site
Selected attendees may move into a pre-scheduled or same-day interview. Physical attendance is required for immediate interview consideration.
Cybastion Briefing Room
Mission briefings and leadership conversations
Join short briefings and leadership conversations about Cybastion's mission, areas of expertise and career opportunities. Sessions complement individual discussions with recruiters and hiring managers.
Inside Cybastion
Cybastion's mission, Defense & Intelligence priorities, and opportunities to make an impact.
From National Security to Global Impact
How defense and intelligence experience can translate into Cybastion's global work.
Capabilities & Programmes
Cybersecurity, AI, digital infrastructure and sovereign technology.
Meet the Leadership
Short conversations with business and functional leaders.
Your Next Mission
Open roles, target profiles and what candidates can expect next.
What to bring
In-person attendance required for same-day interview considerationYour resume. Upload it during registration and bring a copy if you wish.
Your clearance status. Be ready to discuss an active or previous clearance, or eligibility to obtain one. Requirements are role specific.
Examples of delivered work. Be ready to discuss situations, outcomes and the impact you personally drove.
Discover more in person
Meet hiring teams and learn how your experience could contribute to Cybastion's work. The session programme will be confirmed ahead of the event.
Location
Fuse at Mason Square, Arlington
3401 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
First floor
Nearest Metro: Virginia Square–GMU, Orange and Silver lines.
Parking: Paid parking is available in the garages at Fuse and at GMU Van Metre Hall.
Questions
Before you register
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