OPSEC & Containment Officer

Role Summary

The OPSEC & Containment Officer protects the directorate's most dangerous knowledge — the PL-4 and Covert-classified techniques stored in the Restricted-Technique Vault — and enforces the containment protocols that prevent restricted material from leaking into counter-pattern design or public Unranked tools. The role is both security officer and ethical guardrail: if a technique is too potent to invert safely, this officer ensures it stays locked, logged, and untouched. The directorate studies weapons of manipulation; this role ensures it does not accidentally build new ones.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enforce containment protocol for all PL-4 and Covert-classified techniques, controlling access to the Restricted-Technique Vault through audit-logged procedures.
2. Conduct security assessments of counter-pattern designs to verify no restricted technique has been inadvertently incorporated or replicated.
3. Maintain the directorate's operational-security posture, including compartmentalization boundaries, communication hygiene, and cover-story integrity.
4. Investigate containment breaches, unauthorized access attempts, and information-handling violations, reporting findings directly to the Science Director.
5. Audit the clearance and access records of all personnel with FREE-WILL-2 or higher access, flagging anomalies and recommending revocations.
6. Develop and deliver OPSEC training and containment-awareness briefings for all directorate staff, with enhanced modules for vault-adjacent roles.

Required Qualifications

• Information security, intelligence security, or classified-material handling background.
• Working knowledge of compartmentalization doctrine and need-to-know enforcement.
• Disciplined, audit-proof protocol enforcement under institutional pressure.
• The spine to deny vault access to senior staff when the protocol does not authorize it.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SCIF management, sensitive-compartmented-information handling, or laboratory containment.
• Insider-threat detection and counterintelligence awareness training.
• Familiarity with the directorate's Potency Level framework and restricted-technique classification criteria.

Certifications & Clearances

Curricula are delivered through the Training Academy; currency is tracked on the HR training matrix.

Hazard & Safety

Compensation

Mission-driven S-3 band with security-clearance differential and full medical including cognitive-wellness coverage.

Career Path

Advances to Science Director (S-5) or laterals into Evidence & Custody for the chain-of-custody governance track.