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Lead Cyber Security Engineer

MITRE · Fort Meade, MD · 5 days ago
Information Technology$159k–$199k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Must not create sections with placeholder text. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Intro paragraph about MITRE, mission, etc. Could be "About the role" maybe? Actually "About the role" heading: we can put description of role and organization. The posting includes: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. The MITRE Ft. Meade/Annapolis Junction joint cyber operations work program is dedicated to developing innovative solutions for our sponsors to defend the nation and project power in and through the cyber domain. Applicants need to understand military cyber operations, have a vision for how to revolutionize those missions, have the passion to tackle hard problems, are adept collaborators, and have a desire to elevate MITRE’s reputation for technical quality and innovation." That's about the role and organization. Could be "About the role". Then "Roles & Responsibilities:" and "Job Responsibilities:" sections. They contain responsibilities. We'll combine into a Responsibilities section with bullet list. Responsibilities bullet points: - Lead Cybersecurity Engineers in our work program focus on direct work that enables sponsor decision-making, situational awareness, operational concepts, and mission engineering. - The staff member understands company capabilities, processes, and customers related to the cyber operations mission areas as well as the understanding of how to combine these to enable mission outcomes. - The staff member should be able to work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations to understand and decompose sponsor problems, leverage their technical expertise, and translate that into actions on deliverables that they are supporting as an individual or as a part of a team. - Lead Cybersecurity Engineers may be expected to lead functional teams or complex projects; planning and guiding the work of others. - MITRE expertise advances sponsor operational effectiveness and development of new capabilities and integration of technology innovations. - The Lead Cybersecurity Engineer produces technical work products that guide sponsor creation and establishment of new concepts, capabilities, and policies. - Lead Cybersecurity Engineers work as a member or leader of a team of experts who work closely with operational forces to understand their mission and identify ways to leverage technology and non-material solutions to optimize mission outcomes. - Additionally, you will collaborate with peers and your Task/Project Leads to identify opportunities to expand the cyber operations workspace and to leverage other work within and outside the portfolio that may have impact on government mission space. - This work is primarily in the Annapolis Junction and Fort Meade, MD area. You will meet regularly with sponsors in their workspace. - Produce technical work products to include written reports, models, and system diagrams - Develop and/or Engineer innovative cyber operations strategies, prototypes, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) - Work closely with MITRE leadership and government representatives to communicate vision and strategy to improve cyber operations - Work with a team of MITRE personnel to implement strategy, TTPs, and/or transition prototypes - Research and remain cognizant of technology innovation within your area of expertise and Identify ways to leverage technology to improve operational outcomes We can combine duplicates: some bullet points similar. We'll keep unique. Now Basic Qualifications: list. - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. - Degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, systems engineering, intelligence or related field preferred - Knowledge of systems engineering, mission 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 - Demonstrated ability to leverage technology to enable mission or supporting business operations - Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience - Hybrid onsite Fort Meade presence required with the ability 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, located on Fort Meade - Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph required - U.S. Citizenship required - This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site. Preferred Qualifications: list. - Technology Application to Mission Ability to identify opportunities to leverage Artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines, Platform Engineering to enable workflows and improve operations - Knowledge of modernized testing procedures and their integration with CI/CD pipelines - Analyze user behavior and workflows to identify and solve material and non-material operations needs - Knowledge of Agile acquisition and the DEVSECOPS process for capability development - Operations Understanding 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 - Experience working with military or other government cyber operations or commercial red/blue teams - Active TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph is highly desired Also clearance requirement repeated: "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph" and "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". We can include under Requirements or Qualifications. Pay: Salary compensation range and midpoint: $158,800 - $198,500 - $238,200 Schedule: "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite" maybe schedule? Actually "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite" indicates onsite. Also "This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site." So schedule: Onsite, minimum 3 days/week. Benefits: The posting mentions "competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." Also "Benefits information may be found here." No specific benefits listed. Since we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It mentions competitive benefits but not specific. Might be considered vague. The rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "competitive benefits" but not specifics. Might be considered placeholder? It says "competitive benefits" which is a statement but not specific. The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "competitive benefits" is somewhat vague but still a statement. However they also say "Benefits information may be found here." That's a reference. I'd argue we should not create Benefits section because no concrete benefits listed. Safer to omit. Pay: we have specific range, so include Pay section. Schedule: we have onsite commitment and 3 days a week, so include Schedule. Now headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. - About the role: intro paragraph about MITRE and role. - Responsibilities: bullet list of duties. - Requirements: maybe basic qualifications (required). Could be "Requirements" heading. - Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications? Or we could split: Requirements = basic qualifications, Qualifications = preferred qualifications. Skills could be separate but we may not have explicit skills list; many qualifications are skills. Could combine. Given we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one "Requirements" section with both basic and preferred. But the instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have both basic and preferred; we could make two sections: Requirements (basic) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills maybe not needed. Let's see: we have basic qualifications (required) and preferred qualifications (desired). We'll output:

About the role

...

Responsibilities

  • ...
  • ...

Requirements

  • ...
  • ...
(basic qualifications)

Qualifications

  • ...
  • ...
(preferred qualifications)

Pay

Salary compensation range: $158,800 - $198,500 - $238,200 (midpoint).

Schedule

Onsite work required; minimum of 3 days per week on-site at Fort Meade/Annapolis Junction.

We should not include Benefits. Now ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's craft About the role paragraph combining the intro and the program description. We need to avoid repeating job title. Not include "Job ID". No boilerplate. Let's write About the role:

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. The MITRE Ft. Meade/Annapolis Junction joint cyber operations work program is dedicated to developing innovative solutions for our sponsors to defend the nation and project power in and through the cyber domain. Applicants need to understand military cyber operations, have a vision for how to revolutionize those missions, have the passion to tackle hard problems, are adept collaborators, and have a desire to elevate MITRE’s reputation for technical quality and innovation.

That seems fine. Now Responsibilities bullets: need to ensure we capture all distinct responsibilities. Let's list unique items: - Lead Cybersecurity Engineers in our work program focus on direct work that enables sponsor decision-making, situational awareness, operational concepts, and mission engineering. - Understand company capabilities, processes, and customers related to cyber operations mission areas and how to combine these to enable mission outcomes. - Work independently, with guidance only in the most complex situations, to understand and decompose sponsor problems, leverage technical expertise, and translate that into actions on deliverables (individually or as part of a team). - May be expected to lead functional teams or complex projects; planning and guiding the work of others. - Produce technical work products that guide sponsor creation and establishment of new concepts, capabilities, and policies. - Work as a member or leader of a team of experts who work closely with operational forces to understand their mission and identify ways to leverage technology and non-material solutions to optimize mission

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