Associate Cybersecurity Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Enable sponsor decision-making, situational awareness, operational concepts, and mission engineering.
• Translate foundational knowledge into actions on deliverables as an individual or as part of a team.
• Collaborate with peers and Task/Project Leads to expand the cyber operations workspace and leverage other work.
• Work closely with MITRE project leadership and government representatives to communicate techniques, tactics, and procedures.
• Implement strategy and/or develop prototype solutions with a team of MITRE personnel.
• Identify ways to leverage technology to improve operational outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• Less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, cyber operations, intelligence support to cyber operations, or capability development.
• Track record of innovative thinking and problem-solving with a bias toward action in the cyber operations domain.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Willingness to work on site in a Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at MITRE’s Fort Meade site and to attend regular engagements at the sponsor’s site.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with PolyU.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, systems engineering, intelligence or related field preferred.
• Skills in one or more of the following areas: Technology Application to Mission, Artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines, Platform Engineering, to enable workflows and improve operations.
• Analyze user behavior and workflows to identify and solve material and non-material operations needs.
• Knowledge of modernized testing procedures and their integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Operations Knowledge of intelligence processes, collection, and targeting and how they enable mission.
• Knowledge of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) to include exploitation, effects operations, and mission enabling activities.
• Knowledge of Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) to include cyber threat hunting, cybersecurity, or defense of critical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of military and government cyber operations or commercial red/blue teams.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.

Job Responsibilities

• Produce technical work products to include written reports, models, and system diagrams.
• Develop and/or engineer innovative cyber operations strategies, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Work closely with MITRE project leadership and government representatives to communicate techniques, tactics, and procedures to improve cyber operations.
• Implement strategy and/or develop prototype solutions with a team of MITRE personnel.
• Identify ways to leverage technology to improve operational outcomes.