Lead Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect

Company: MITRE Corporation
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

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. MITRE's Intel Center N432 Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Department is a diverse and skilled group of engineers and technologists who bring innovative solutions to addressing our Sponsor's most challenging problems. To ensure our Sponsor's mission success, we marry our deep understanding of their mission with potential applications for new technology, and innovative ways to employ MITRE's capabilities. We are intensely focused on our Sponsor's national space mission and constantly exploring and experimenting with new ways to help them be BETTER.The Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance Processing department is seeking candidates to integrate technology and domain expertise to deliver solutions across organizations that develop, deploy, and operate spaceborne capabilities. We help ensure overhead users get the right data at the right place and time to deliver the mission. We are seeking a Software Security Architect with experience in the Intelligence Community (IC) and an active Top Secret clearance, along with current or past SCI, to provide thought leadership and problem solving expertise to our sponsor and their national security mission.--The ideal candidate will bring a consistent track record of success in delivery of high-impact technical solutions, the integration and application of knowledge and skills in enterprise transformation and related disciplines, proven ability to provide technical and/or project team leadership within challenging customer environments, and passion for contributing to growing technical capabilities in enterprise architecture, innovation, analytics and optimization. The successful candidate will be expected to continue to develop and expand their individual expertise, to lead and/or contribute to fast-paced projects as a member of high-performing multi-disciplinary teams, to provide subject matter expertise, technical mentoring and coaching for less experienced staff, and to lead/contribute to the development, evolution, and application of emerging technical capabilities. As an individual contributor and technical advisor, you will provide senior leaders with advice and an understanding of techniques and effective approaches to enterprise level security and design, governance, and supporting technologies. Responsibilities Include:

• Assist in analysis, transition, and improvement at multiple levels of enterprise security architecture design and execution, identifying core competencies, defining measures, and identifying capabilities
• Help government leaders to translate their mission, vision, goals, and strategies into actionable programs within a coherent concept of operations
• Analyze the current state and partner with government staff and working groups to develop an enterprise security architecture plan and roadmap that supports a "target state" of technologies or desired capabilities
• Assist in assessing and aligning services and technology with mission strategies and objectives, concepts of operation, business processes, roles, organizational structures and technology standards
• Facilitate changes to policy and integration challenges, adapting legacy systems to new technology, identifying, and accelerating the adoption of innovations, and creating reference architectures which can be leveraged across a sponsor's business
• Provide support in planning, evaluating, and overseeing Custom/Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solution implementations
• Develop trusted strategic partnerships with key sponsors and stakeholders
• Define security requirements and work with engineering team from concept through implementation of secure solutions for server systems
• Participate in hardware and software system design reviews and build security roadmap that makes the servers secure both for the users and administrators
• As a security architect, you will be expected to be a technical leader to collaborate across the company to analyze, define and implement the end-to-end mobile/embedded/automotive/ server security to meet customer needs.
• Work closely with customers and partners to understand use cases and identify security needs proactively. Keep up to date on security risks and develop solutions without impacting customer experience
• Continuously review and identify improvement opportunities in established processes, infrastructure, and practices to ensure platforms are robust against current and future security threats.
• Provide direction and advice on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security practices that may have an impact on the security posture of the applicable environment.
• Research, envision and define security solutions which meet internal and external requirements, including following industry standards.
• Cooperate with customers and partners to identify security challenges and craft a sound security solution which can serve long-term and short-term business goals. Minimum Qualifications:
  • Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; or, applicants who are eligible for security clearances. Basic Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Enterprise Architecture, Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Computer Engineering, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, or software security related field; or, equivalent experience along with an Enterprise Software Security certification
    • 8 years of relevant experience
    • Active TS//SCI with CI poly
    • Ability to work on-site in secure Government and MITRE facilities in a dynamic and diverse team is required, with strong interpersonal skills, and a real passion for working as a team
    • Demonstrated knowledge and application of several of the following:
      • Ability to independently pursue new ideas and innovations
      • Deep understanding of secure architecture and design fundamentals
      • Threat modeling and other risk assessment skills
      • Sound knowledge of operating system architecture and security fundamentals
      • Experience with Secure Software Development Life Cycle frameworks
      • Experience in defining and guiding the implementation of reference architectures and technology standards
      • Excellent written and oral communications skills including presentation and facilitation; ability to succinctly provide technical fact-based recommendations and products tailored to the sponsor mission and senior leader priorities and operating environments
      • Experience in creating schedules, deliverables, and executing on projects according to demanding time frame requirements; ability to work both independently and as part of a team Preferred Qualifications:
        • Advanced degree in technical field of study with 8 or more years of relevant experience
        • Hands-on experience with NRO Security Processes and Policy for Cloud Computing (i.e. AWS, GovCloud, C2S)
        • Well-informed with NRO's Risk Management Framework (RMF)
        • Certifications and/or hands-on experience in cloud computing, enterprise data services architectures, container management, software lifecycle management, and cloud security servicesThis requisition requires the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/PolygraphMITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status.
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