Cybersecurity Engineer, Lead - Springfield, United States - MITRE

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The Cyber Solutions Innovation Center applies threat-informed expertise in cyber technologies and integrated solutions to enhance the security and resilience of our nation's cyber systems and infrastructure.

Job Description:

Spend your days applying your diverse cyber security technical skills to a wide variety of complex and unique challenges that make a direct impact to our sponsor's mission.

This person will be part of a team that tackles cyber security engineering challenges and delivers solutions. In this role, the candidate will provide hands on cyber security engineering analysis, and system integration crossing multiple areas, such as firewalls, networks, and IDS / IPS. The candidate must be able to collaborate and work on multi-disciplinary teams.

The technical work areas include the architecture, analysis, and prototyping of cyber security technologies. The work will cover a variety of security areas, which may include:

• Cloud computing; mission assurance; secure configuration management; identity credential and access management; enterprise application integration; computer network defense; cross domain solutions; network / telecommunications security; and data security best practices.
• You will have the opportunity to make an impact on the United States Government decision making.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing technical expertise, engineering direction, and guidance across multiple projects to define systems, security, and data architectures.
• Assessment of technology solutions; and develop implementation and integration strategies to improve security operations and network defense.
• Perform independent assessments of selected information technologies, mission processing systems, and associated acquisitions.
• Recommend investments to enhance information security
• Apply policy and governance for mission requirements, evaluate technical standards and advancements for improving enterprise-wide cyber security
• Support the architecture, analysis, and prototyping of cyber security technologies.
• Participate in studies, prototypes, market surveys, and product evaluations to identify tools and methods to bridge existing gaps and introduce new capabilities to address evolving threats
• Collaborate across government and industry to collect lessons learned, leverage best-of-breed tools and processes, and identify hard problem focus areas
• Partner with government leadership and working groups to develop enterprise plans and roadmaps to support a "future view" of technologies for the IC.
• Knowledge of cross domain solutions, mobility, data security, identity credential and access management trends.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field, including but not limited to: Cyber Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or related field and 8 + years applicable experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Must have TS/SCI clearance for consideration
• Experience with computer network defense technologies used in the IC, DoD, and commercial domains
• Knowledge of securing and protecting virtualized and cloud environments
• Familiarity with government acquisition and system engineering processes
• Familiarity with mobile app programming languages and scripting tools. (e.g., Java, Python, C, C++)
• Strong communications skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical decision-makers.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Understanding of the Cyber Security new and emerging technologies and trends.
• Familiarity of system security engineering processes.
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn and grow.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Familiarity with operational cyber concepts and objectives
• Familiarity with composition of executables
• Knowledge of virtualized and cloud environments
• Ability to work independently and independently learn new technologies, languages, platforms, etc.
• Current DoD 8570 Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP)-approved certification.
• Experience engaging with senior government leaders
• Understanding of, and experience in, the IC and DoD cybersecurity communities
• Experience developing strategies and CONOPS
• Strong interest in cybersecurity problems and advanced persistent threats, covering both operations and research
• Experience with cyber threat indicators and prioritizing cyber threats
• Superior customer engagement and communication skills
• Experience writing requirements and operational concepts for government acquisitions
• Experience with Splunk and other big data cyber tools
• Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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