Cyber Security and Defense Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Agile methodologies, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Cyber Security, DevSecOps, Docker, Elasticsearch, Machine learning techniques, Splunk

Job Description

The Cyber Security and Defense Engineer will work with MITRE teammates, be responsible for individual research tasks as well as tasks that require leading a small team of people, directly interact with our sponsors on a regular basis, and apply hands-on skills as part of extensive lab and prototype testing. We are seeking individuals that love to learn, get hands-on exposure to new cyber security technologies and tools, and apply those skills for a greater good.

Some examples our work include:

• Combining cybersecurity domain expertise to enhance cyber adversary detection, network defense, and SOC process improvement.
• Building analytics leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to identify malicious adversarial behavior.
• Using MITRE ATT&CK® to hunt the adversary and build TTP-based defenses.
• Cyber threat defense, emulation and deception using MITRE D3FEND® and Engage®.
• Advancing the state of the art by developing new approaches to cybersecurity analytics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work within and across teams composed of MITRE, Military, Government , and DoD Contractors.
• Develop solutions that enhance AF ability to monitor, secure, and defend AF mission capabilities.
• Ability to work independently to develop required products.
• Continue to evolve technical skills to bring to bear the best solutions to sponsor challenges.
• Perform requisite research and analysis to leverage best of breed Tech products.
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with sponsors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cyber security and defense technologies (SIEM, SOAR, next-gen firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, endpoint security, cyber threat intel).
• Exposure to industry cyber security frameworks such as MITRE’s ATT&CK, NIST Cyber Security Framework, and industry cyber kill chains.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and skillsets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in DoD, USAF, Cyber Security, and Defense Cyber Operations.
• Fundamental TCP/IP networking knowledge to include basic routing, TCP/IP protocol (TCP/UDP) operation, and an understanding of OSI Model Layer 2 and Layer 3 interactions.
• Experience with Commercial cloud administration (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with virtualization and hypervisors (VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V).
• Experience with application containers and runtimes (Docker).
• Experience with cyber data platforms (Elastic, Splunk, LogRhythm).
• Experience with Zero Trust reference architectures and concepts.
• DoD cyber security practices (SRGs, STIGs, RMF).
• Familiarity with Software Development, Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, and Machine Learning.
• Familiarity with Pen Testing.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$114,500 - $143,000 - $171,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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