Classified Infrastructure Mission Partner
Position Overview
MITRE is seeking a visionary leader to manage a mission-driven approach to support the design, delivery, and operation of classified infrastructure to enable the strategy and goals of MITRE’s business sectors.
Roles and Responsibilities
Build and maintain strong trusted-advisor relationships with MNS leadership and CI users.
Translate MITRE business sector(s) mission and business needs into actionable classified infrastructure priorities while ensuring alignment with enterprise Global Security standards, security requirements, and classified operating procedures.
Drive adoption and value realization of CI solutions within the business.
Manage SLAs/OLAs with business and monitor service KPIs.
Act as the primary escalation point for major incidents or chronic issues.
Build and maintain a deep understanding of the classified infrastructure user experience and advocate for efforts to enhance the classified user experience while maintaining compliant operations and classified infrastructure.
Provide a clear voice of the customer back to Global Security and help create feedback loops, performance visibility, and escalation paths when service delivery, capacity, or prioritization issues affect mission outcomes.
Promote knowledge management tools and repositories to ensure leaders and users of classified infrastructure are well-informed and supported.
Efficiently develop, validate, and prioritize classified infrastructure requirements in coordination with MNS sector leaders.
Effectively coordinate validated and prioritized classified infrastructure requirements within Global Security for development and operationalization.
Advocate for the user experience throughout the design, development and transition to operations of classified infrastructure.
Manage the coordination and execution of prioritized projects across Global Security and MNS stakeholders.
Drive innovation while managing costs through data-driven rationalization of classified infrastructure footprints.
Inform long range and annual capital planning as well as space utilization through data-driven metrics.
Implement business process improvement initiatives with classified infrastructure stakeholders to deliver increased value proposition and remove unnecessary barriers to mission.
Develop data analytics and reporting products/services to inform classified infrastructure governance decision-making.
Leverage Artificial Intelligence as appropriate to enable business transformation objectives.
Lead communications relating to capability roadmaps, outages, and major capability launches; set expectations with business stakeholders.
Coordinate training/adoption for infrastructure-driven changes that affect end users.
Provide strategic leadership to foster operational excellence by establishing clear priorities with well-defined outcomes and measures of success.
Drive mission excellence across security services and programs to enable MNS to deliver solutions for the nation’s most pressing challenges.
Elevate security as a respected pillar of MITRE’s culture, recognized for safeguarding and accelerating the mission.
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 10 years and a master's degree; or a Ph.D. with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Minimum of 4 years prior experience managing projects or programs.
In-depth understanding of security regulations and standards, including NISPOM, ICDs, and STIGs.
Experience managing classified infrastructure projects in direct support of a government sponsor.
Experience with managing classified infrastructure operations across multiple cleared facilities, including SCIFs, with a focus on maintaining accreditation and compliance.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Classified Information.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven track record of successfully managing security and compliance programs across various sponsors and accrediting authorities.
Experience with government security reviews, inspections, and related regulatory audits, demonstrating a thorough understanding of compliance requirements and best practices.
Experience working across business sectors with proven results on supporting these operations and/or project execution.
Experience with designing, implementing and managing security tools and technologies.
Experience with developing operating models for security roles to standardize and defend staffing levels.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Leverage Lean Six Sigma certification.