Systems Security Engineer, Lead - MITRE

MITRE’s Mission Assured Engineering Department has a new opportunity for a strong technical candidate with systems security expertise to join an innovative team of engineers focused on ensuring resilient and secure solutions for sponsor / customer environments.

For this position, you will leverage your knowledge, technical skills and work experiences to employ the latest systems security, cybersecurity engineering, and secure software development concepts to ensure resilient and secure solutions for sponsor platforms and capabilities. Also, you will have opportunities to merge your work and interests with advancements from research, industry, academia, and standards groups to develop novel security capabilities.

The right candidate will enjoy a fast-paced team environment, working with cutting-edge technology, and contributing to advancing security concepts. We are seeking a self-starter that assists in applying security and trust principles to build security into large engineering projects and acquisition efforts. The candidate for this position will work directly with sponsors on a variety of challenging problems to enable mission assurance in critical space mission areas.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Providing contributions to secure system design, resiliency principles and assured execution both within MITRE and for our sponsors, reflecting recent relevant research and commercial technology.
• Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex cybersecurity problems for our sponsors
• Contribute to the innovation of new AI use cases applied to cyber operational challenges
• Contribute to the security of capability and software development constructs
• Keep pace with the rapidly advancing lifecycle of emerging technologies to maintain cutting edge support of sponsor programs

The position requires direct in-person contributions to our Colorado Springs-based Sponsor.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives
• Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security
• Assist in development of systems security, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps strategy development
• Contribute technically to one or more MITRE Space Force cybersecurity tasks.
• Collaborate effectively with MITRE, government, and contractors; to effectively communicate in writing, presentations, and collaborative discussions; able to interface with peers, managers, and government sponsors.
• Promote collaboration and integration with other organizational elements within the Space domain and across MITRE.

Basic Qualifications: