Cyber Resiliency Strategist/Engineer/Architect for Space Domain Enterprise

About the role

At MITRE, you can do meaningful work while maintaining a fulfilling life. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields such as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. Our Cyber Resilience and Cross Domain Engineering department works across MITRE's cyber resilience portfolio, spanning resilient systems engineering, Zero Trust, mission engineering, enterprise security architecture, cross domain engineering, mission assurance, cyber survivability, secure cloud architectures, and AI-enabled cyber defense.

The department integrates resilience engineering principles across complex systems to enable sponsors to sustain mission effectiveness despite cyber-attacks, operational disruption, and rapidly evolving threat environments. This role focuses on improving USSF cyber resilient enterprise and Defensive Cyber Warfare (DCW) capabilities to achieve and maintain space superiority, enhanced battlespace awareness, and mission assurance through space, ground, and communication link assets.

Responsibilities

• Work with US Government space sponsors to apply today’s cybersecurity and resiliency technologies to maximize their security.
• Provide a technical framework for identifying seams across identity, engineering, suppliers, cloud services, shared data, AI workflows, remote sites, infrastructure, and recovery dependencies.
• Research emerging cybersecurity capabilities for evaluation and inclusion into sponsors' security architectures, both current and future.
• Define requirements for operational systems to ensure cyber resiliency from day one.
• Provide direct technical leadership, support, and oversight for deploying operational solutions that enhance cybersecurity and cyber resiliency for sponsors’ most critical systems.
• Lead teams to develop and demonstrate prototypes for key cybersecurity solutions, including zero-trust security models, automated response tools, and active defense.
• Work with government sponsors to identify and define their critical cyber resiliency and cybersecurity challenges and mitigations.
• Develop data-driven technical products to outline recommended solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Stay abreast of current and emerging cyber threats, trends, and advanced mitigation strategies.
• Possess motivation to expand knowledge and willingness to take risks to explore new opportunities.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or 5 years and a PhD; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience using cybersecurity frameworks or standards (e.g., NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-82, NIST 800-160 v2, ISA/IEC 62443, DoD RMF, FISMA) in risk assessment, space systems engineering, threat-driven acquisitions, or operations.
• Ability to propose innovative concepts and solutions and lead teams to instantiate those concepts.
• Ability to influence sponsor decisions, lead discussions, collaborate across different teams and organizations, and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI 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 has an on-site requirement at MITRE or government locations of 3-4 days a week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying threat-driven cyber resilient solutions for space systems.
• Knowledge and experience with MITRE’s Applied Cyber Resiliency Engineering (ACRE), MITRE ATT&CK for space systems, Aerospace’s SPARTA, and JHU/APL’s HAT TRICK.
• Knowledge of space systems security, cyber engineering, and cyber space reference architectures challenges unique to that domain.
• Familiarity with Modular Open System Approaches (MOSA) for Space Systems.
• Familiarity with Defensive Cyber Warfare (DCW) Concepts, Mission Threads, and applied AI technologies for space.
• Knowledge and experience developing cyber resilient performance requirements and metrics for space systems.
• Working knowledge of applying Zero Trust concepts and capabilities to space systems.
• Experience working directly with space system owners, operators, and engineers.
• History of building trusted relationships with demanding customers or leaders.
• Experience delivering high-quality valued products to sponsors.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, judgment, discretion, and tact.
• Experience leading high-performance teams across varied organizations and domains.

Pay

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

Schedule

This position has an on-site requirement of 3-4 days a week at MITRE or government locations.