Principal Applied Cybersecurity Engineer

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The Strategic Non-Kinetic Effects Mission Center is seeking an Applied Cybersecurity Engineer with deep, cross-disciplinary expertise in networking, intelligence, and cybersecurity to design and deliver mission-critical solutions to the nation's most complex challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Department is currently seeking a senior-career cybersecurity professional to contribute individual technical expertise and support to a complex work program in support of critical national security objectives

Responsibilities include to:

• Evaluate existing methodologies and develop recommendations for improved processes, tools, analytics, and infrastructure;
• Identify and leverage capabilities from across MITRE that enable the Sponsor to measurably increase mission impact;
• Support intelligence collection operations by partnering closely with Sponsor leaders to apply human and technological capabilities that enable successful operational/mission outcomes; and
• Convey technical, analytic, and organizational findings, recommendations, and approaches to senior decision makers and mission partners.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to work with others to solve challenging technical problems.
• Ability to think critically, work in group settings, and be proactive in pursuing research and problem solving.
• Experience with analyzing raw threat intelligence from one or more collection disciplines (ex. SIGINT, HUMINT, GEOINT, etc.) in support of operations and/or analysis.
• Deep understanding of computer networks and the OSI model, spanning hardware, software, and networking components, including how data flows and is secured across all layers.
• Requires current, expert-level knowledge of C4ISR architectures relevant to analytic foci.
• Experience with infrastructure virtualization, data center operations and cybersecurity.
• Analytical experience related to technical subjects including telecommunications and network engineering.
• Experience in all-source intelligence, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, network reverse engineering and network reconnaissance.
• Familiarity with intelligence community organizational and governance structures, and requirements processes.
• Experience with intelligence community analytic and requirements tools.
• Experience with digital network exploitation analysis.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Intelligence community acquisition, planning, programming, budgeting and execution experience.
• Familiarity with the intent, capability and operations of top tier nation-station adversary threat groups targeting operational technology in critical infrastructure, space, or weapon systems.

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

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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