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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: MITRE's Nuclear Weapon Systems and C2 Platforms Department is seeking a Lead Cyber Security and Defense Engineer to provide expertise and support to the most critical challenges our sponsors face. We provide technical guidance through rigorous modeling, simulation, and analytical methods to enhance program decision making and risk management. Our main sponsors possess the policy, warfighting, organizational, and program responsibilities within the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise. Roles & Responsibilities: + Provide technical expertise within MITRE and for our sponsor organizations to ensure delivery of safe, reliable, and effective weapon and C2 systems, while considering a broad range of factors to include system requirements, technology trade-space, and program constraints. + Evaluate system architectures, ensuring cybersecurity best practices and compliance with relevant DoD regulations. + Apply proven cyber security and defense concepts to inform weapon system and C2 platform architectures and capabilities, review contractor-proposed solutions to ensure they meet requirements and apply new innovative approaches to sponsor cyber challenges. + Cultivate strong, trusted working relationships with our sponsors by understanding their needs and helping them solve their toughest challenges. + Lead and contribute to technical products, prototypes and/or modeling efforts that enable data-driven decisions and result in impactful mission outcomes. Basic Qualifications: + Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science/engineering, cyber security, or a STEM field and 8 years cyber security/defense related experience; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years relevant experience who can immediately contribute as a lead technical staff; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. + Excellent interpersonal and communications skills for interaction with customers, external organizations, MITRE leadership, and team members. + Experience working on collaborative teams and executing tasks with minimal oversight. + Experience with applying cyber security engineering to numerous technology domains, including security architecture development, enterprise environments, cloud, and specialized environments such as Industrial Control Systems (ICS). + Proven experience beyond system administration or cyber security compliance practices to developing large-scale solutions or recommendations using systems engineering. + Working understanding of NIST Cyber Security Framework and Developing Cyber Resilient Systems. + Working understanding of DoD System Engineering processes. + Working understanding of cryptographic concepts and technologies. + Experience in performing technical analysis and presenting findings or recommendations. + Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance. + This position has an on-site working requirement of 5 days a week. Preferred Qualifications: + Familiarity with AF nuclear weapon systems, platforms, and/or networks. + Working understanding of Zero Trust concepts and implementations. + Working familiarity with MITRE cyber-related frameworks. + DoD cyber operations experience. + DoD cryptographic experience. + Success in leading engineering teams in support of defense acquisition programs. + Possess an active DoD Top Secret w/SCI clearance. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Secret This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret Work Location Type: Onsite MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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