Applied Cybersecurity Engineer (Center for Securing the Homeland)

Applied Cybersecurity Engineer (Center for Securing the Homeland)

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Department Summary:

Our mission-driven team works directly with MITRE’s government and industry homeland security sponsors to improve cybersecurity across government and critical infrastructure. We’re seeking cyber defenders with various backgrounds and skillsets to join our team and apply their engineering expertise to develop innovative solutions for a safer world.

Roles & Responsibilities:

This is a team that works closely with our government and critical infrastructure sponsors and their stakeholders to improve the cybersecurity of mission critical systems. A collaborative approach and interest in building relationships based on an understanding their unique mission, constraints, and opportunities is as important as specific technical skills. You can apply your experience or interest in a variety of available opportunities to create a safer cyber world. We are looking for people with both a breadth of cyber experience and a depth of knowledge in one or more areas that can be applied directly to sponsor problems. This may entail some or all of the following:

• Applies interdisciplinary competencies in secure systems architecture and design, security operations, threat actor behavior, risk assessment, and network security to business and operational challenges, including technical IT and OT systems and military or other government operations.
• Working directly with government and critical infrastructure operators to develop requirements, perform applied research and development activities, develop operational pilots, and assist in transition of new cyber protection technologies to operational use.
• Defining requirements, developing security architectures, and evaluating security solutions for different on premises and cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and/or across different SaaS environments.
• Defining requirements, developing architectures, and evaluating solutions for securing hybrid on-prem/enterprise cloud-based services (e.g., e-mail, DNS, ICAM, etc.).
• Developing and operationalizing cloud-based cyber sensor and cyber analytics architectures to enable more efficient and effective cybersecurity operations, threat-hunting, and cyber forensics.
• Defining requirements, evaluating solutions, and developing mobile and wireless cyber security architectures.
• Applying zero trust principles to develop pilots and proofs-of-concept for access to multi-cloud sponsor environments.
• Building advanced cybersecurity testbed environments for researching, developing, operationalizing, evaluating, and improving advanced analytics capabilities for detecting and responding to modern cyber threats.
• Developing innovative offerings and identifies opportunities for cyber capabilities by applying a mix of strategic and technical knowledge of network environments, information warfare, regulations, and specific domain requirements.
• Conducting cyber mission dependency, criticality, and adversary analyses to inform design of resilient architectures.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience in one or more areas listed under work responsibilities.
  • In particular, experience in these technical areas is highly desired:
    • Experience in the integration and cybersecurity of multi-SaaS environments
    • Experience applying zero trust principles to develop pilots and proofs-of-concept for access to multi-cloud sponsor environments
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with federal departments and agencies or their stakeholders (e.g., state/local/tribal/territorial governments) and critical infrastructure organizations (especially electric, gas or water utilities).
• Experience working with electric utilities (especially distributed energy resources or electric vehicle charging infrastructures), gas utilities, manufacturing companies, or water utilities.
• Possess strong writing and communication skills.

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

None

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

Fitness - DHS

Work Location Type:

Hybrid