What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Information Security Engineer position at Children's National Medical Center?
The Lead Information Security Engineer for Platform Engineering supports the InfoSec mission of securing the patient experience. This position oversees and manages engineering of information security of platform applications and systems to ensure compliance with Children's National Hospital IT standards. Individuals in this position will have oversight and direct hands-on responsibility for configuration, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting of such systems in order to validate performance and functional requirements.
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in a computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline or equivalent training and work experience (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
10 years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Experience leading in the application of key cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences
Experience leading the implementation of Cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory
Experience leading in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing
Experience leading engineering practices related to performing operational tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency
Experience leading performing test measurement and analysis of cybersecurity and IT systems
Functional Accountabilities
Cybersecurity Engineering
- Leads efforts involving the identification of cybersecurity system performance
- Oversees the operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems
- Leads the testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications
- Leads response actions necessary to recover from system failures
- Leads the curation of key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.
Organizational Accountabilities
- Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
Teamwork/Communication
- Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
- Partner with all team members to achieve goals
- Receptive to others' ideas and opinions
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
- Contribute to a positive work environment
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
- Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
- Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
- Use resources efficiently
- Search for less costly ways of doing things
Safety
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
- Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
