InfoSec Monitoring & Response Lead

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At MITRE, you can have both meaningful work and a fulfilling life. MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, tackling the nation's toughest challenges in fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. The company offers competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation. MITRE’s Cyber Defense Operations Department is seeking a Lead for the Monitoring & Response (M&R) team, serving as the Group Lead and operational lead for the function. This critical role oversees M&R operations, including response to cyber alerts, threat hunting, automation, and incident response. The M&R Lead will work closely with other groups within the Cyber Defense Operations Department and partner teams across MITRE’s cyber and enterprise technology organizations. The role involves shaping the operational roadmap for M&R, managing M&R tools and capabilities, driving process documentation and continuous improvement, and leading the technical team during incident response activities. Responsibilities also include hiring, staffing, performance reviews, and fostering employee engagement, mission outcomes, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of cyber operations, especially monitoring, response, and incident response.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 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.
Hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations, security monitoring, detection triage, and incident response in a large enterprise environment.
Strong knowledge of enterprise security operations processes, incident handling methodologies, and cyber defense best practices.
Experience with security operations tools and platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, ticketing/case management, threat intelligence platforms, and log analysis tools.
Understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and how to operationalize that knowledge in monitoring and response.
Experience applying information security principles including least privilege, defense in depth, and secure operations.
Experience shaping and improving security processes, workflows, and operational outcomes.
Strong project and operational management skills.
Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance.
Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Nice To Haves

Experience as an M&R Analyst or leading a Technical Cyber IR team.
Experience managing or leading security operations analysts, responders, or similar cyber defense personnel.
Experience with digital forensics, host-based investigations, network analysis, and cloud incident response.
Knowledge of security controls and frameworks such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, and related cyber defense standards.
Understanding of both cloud and on-premises enterprise environments and the associated monitoring and response challenges.
Experience with automation and orchestration to improve analyst efficiency and response speed.
Experience managing vendor relationships, managed service providers, or contracted service providers.
Experience with business processes such as staffing, workforce planning, performance management, and budgeting support.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief technical teams, leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Proven ability to build trusted relationships and work collaboratively across technical, operational, and business functions.

Responsibilities

Lead daily operations, ensuring timely triage, investigation, escalation and resolution of security events.
Manage operational workflows, priorities, and analyst execution across monitoring and response activities.
Partner closely with the Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering team to improve alert fidelity, response playbooks, and threat-informed monitoring.
Provide technical domain-specific knowledge and leadership to the M&R team.
Drive operational consistency through documented procedures, escalation paths, and response workflows.
Serve as the technical lead for cyber incident response, coordinating investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery activities across affected stakeholders and technical teams.
Provide clear direction, rapid decision-making, and effective execution during IR.
Conduct or oversee forensic triage, scope analysis, evidence collection coordination, impact assessment, and root cause analysis as needed.
Lead post-incident reviews and ensure lessons learned are translated into improved detections, response actions, and control enhancements.
Communicate incident status, operational risks, and response recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Plan, develop, and oversee M&R operational outcomes.
Track M&R work and priorities while ensuring effective execution across the team.
Drive continual improvement of monitoring coverage, response effectiveness, and analyst efficiency.
Identify gaps in visibility, coverage, and telemetry and recommend improvements to tooling, instrumentation, and detections.
Help ensure the team has the skills, coverage, and readiness needed to support MITRE’s cyber defense mission.
Help evaluate tools, platforms, and service providers that improve cyber monitoring and incident response operations.
Contribute to roadmap development for M&R and incident response capability maturation across people, process, and technology.
Collaborate with peer organizations across Cyber Defense Operations, other cybersecurity departments, and the Enterprise Technology division.
Use threat intelligence, incident trends, and operational metrics to drive improvements in use cases, procedures, and response capabilities.
Lead, coach, and develop cyber monitoring and response personnel, helping build a high-performing and mission-focused team environment.
Establish performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and support staff growth in technical and operational competencies.
Build team capabilities in emerging monitoring, automation, and incident response practices.
Manage the M&R budget, including training and travel for the team.
Evaluate the cost, effectiveness, and operational value of current and potential tools and services.
Be an active member of the Cyber Senior Leadership Team.
Ensure staff are assigned meaningful work and are appropriately planned against operational and project needs.
Represent the needs and unique perspectives of staff to Department leadership.
Advocate for M&R competencies and establish new work opportunities.
Ensure the hiring, development, and shaping of skills, capabilities, and diversity needed within the team’s workforce.