Lead Systems Security Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•Huntsville, AL

1d•$146,400 - $219,600•Hybrid

About The Position

MITRE’s Systems Security Engineering Department has a new opportunity for a strong technical candidate with systems security expertise to join an innovative team of engineers focused on ensuring resilient and secure solutions for sponsor / customer needs and developing security capabilities for a safer world. For this position, you will leverage your academic foundation and your work experiences to develop, hone and apply your knowledge of the latest systems security and cybersecurity engineering concepts to ensure resilient and secure solutions for sponsor or customer needs. Also, you will have opportunities to merge your work and interests with advancements from research, industry, academia, and standards groups to develop novel security capabilities. The right candidate will enjoy a fast-paced team environment, working with cutting-edge technology, and contributing to advancing security concepts. We are seeking a self-starter that assists in applying cyber test principles to build security into large engineering projects and acquisition efforts. The candidate for this position will work on a wide variety of challenging problems including systems resiliency, cyber test, security, and cybersecurity activities in direct support of programs.

Requirements

Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 5 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Demonstrated technical depth in the field of Systems Security Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering
Experience developing Systems Security Engineering solutions and capabilities
The ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving with minimal supervision.
Robust knowledge of, and experience with, operational cyber security practices and commonly used technologies
Familiarity with vulnerability scanners and network intrusion detection tools.
Applied understanding and experience with one or more competencies within cybersecurity: Fundamental technological skills: Understanding the basics of networking, operating systems, AI, Blockchain, and security tools. Risk identification and management: The ability to identify vulnerabilities and develop strategies to mitigate risks. Data management and analysis: The ability to manage and analyze structured and unstructured data. Cloud implementation and management: Understanding cloud systems and ensuring data security within them.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team and across Government sponsors as appropriate and experience leveraging relationships to benefit staff and work programs.
Excellent writing and communication skills.
Experience leading teams or projects/tasks.
Communicate highly conceptual ideas effectively.
Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills
Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS
U.S Citizen
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field
Experience with ground radar systems
Recognized expertise in weapon system platforms, mission applications, and modeling & simulation
Experience in the Missile Warning-Missile Tracking (MW-MT) and/or Missile Defense (MD)
Top Secret clearance
Experience with Digital Engineering

Responsibilities

Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives
Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security
Assist in development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts
Contribute technically to one or more MITRE Space Force cybersecurity tasks.
Collaborate effectively with MITRE, government, and contractors; to effectively communicate in writing, presentations, and collaborative discussions; able to interface with peers, managers, and government sponsors.
Promote collaboration and integration with other organizational elements within the Space C2 department and across MITRE.
Assist in development of systems security and cybersecurity strategy development, system testing and evaluation, and verification and validation efforts
Providing contributions to secure system design, resiliency principles and assured execution both within MITRE and for our sponsors, reflecting recent relevant research and commercial technology.
Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex cybersecurity problems for our sponsors
Contribute to the innovation of new AI use cases applied to cyber operational challenges
Keep pace with the rapidly advancing lifecycle of emerging technologies to maintain cutting edge support of sponsor programs