Cyber Security and Defense Engineer (Air and Space Force Center) with

San Antonio, TX, United States

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges–and we're committed to the long–term well–being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not–for–profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day–working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE–and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The Mission Platforms and Infrastructure department is currently seeking an intermediate Cyber Security and Defense Engineer to grow our team of experts. The engineer will be part of our Defensive Cyber efforts working to effectively secure and defend our sponsor's Information technology (IT), control system (CS), and weapon system (WS) platforms and networks. As a result, the engineer may be asked to work multi–faceted aspects of cyber defense to include Zero Trust, endpoint detection and response, security incident management and automation, cyber data analytics and cloud security. Using these skills, MITRE drives enterprise–wide requirements, architectural and acquisition decisions in support of our Nation's defense. 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 Basic 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

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on–site 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 Work Location Type:

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