Cloud 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:

• Applying knowledge of network architectures, cyber sensor technologies, cyber analytic platforms, and cyber threats to provide US Government sponsors with advanced capabilities to protect, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks.
• 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 cloud security architectures, and evaluating security solutions for different cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Defining requirements, developing architectures, and evaluating solutions for securing enterprise cloud-based services (e.g., e-mail, DNS, ICAM, etc.).
• Developing and operationalizing 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.
• Defining requirements, evaluating solutions, developing architectures, and conducting operational pilots of multi-cloud, identity, access, and credential management capabilities.
• Building advanced cybersecurity testbed environments for researching, developing, operationalizing, evaluating, and improving advanced analytics capabilities for detecting and responding to modern cyber threats.
• Exploring emerging topics in cybersecurity related to internet of things and industrial control systems, quantum computing, and designing and testing solutions for securing those devices.
• Conducting software assurance testing and analysis to identify software weaknesses that constitute vulnerabilities or deliberate supply chain compromise.
• Conducting cyber mission dependency, criticality, and adversary analyses to inform design of resilient architectures.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; 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:
    • Defining requirements, developing cloud security architectures, and evaluating security solutions for different cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
    • Defining requirements, developing architectures, and evaluating solutions for securing enterprise cloud-based services (e.g., e-mail, DNS, ICAM, etc.), and c) Developing and operationalizing cyber sensor and cyber analytics architectures to enable more efficient and effective cybersecurity operations, threat-hunting, and cyber forensics
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

• 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.
• Strong knowledge of zero trust principles and implementations in cloud environments.
• 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

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