Cyber Capacity Lead

Responsibilities

Seeking to fill a Cyber Operations position for MITRE’s project with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) in Honolulu, Hawaii. MITRE aims to deliver quantifiable mission value and operational impact to the warfighter – primarily by accelerating technical innovation of new ideas and solutions to emerging operational problems. In general, we collaborate with acquisition stakeholders, technology innovators, operational analysts, and other mission partners to help accelerate the delivery of needed capabilities to operational and tactical level warfighters across the naval, joint, and combined force. This position requires creative problem solving through novel applications of cyber operations and software principles in collaboration with diverse and geographically dispersed teams.

The selected candidate will work closely with military and civilian personnel across the USINDOPACOM staff directorates to include close collaboration with USINDOPACOM country officers, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) efforts, Significant Security Cooperation Initiatives (SSCIs), and Department of State led efforts. This task requires analysis and recommendations to guide the command’s high-level capability planning and prioritization in close coordination with other Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, Combat Support Agencies, Service Components, Department of State, and Service acquisition activities. Successful candidates will have detailed knowledge of relevant policies, processes, technical systems, and coalition security cooperation processes required for the integration and execution of strategic and operational-level recommendations. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Shape/create systems of systems approach to the Joint operational oversight of heterogeneous networks
• Advising decision makers on recommended actions to implement secure, resilient, and safe architectures for operational environments.
• Support and partner with both senior military leaders and action officers to identify operational and engineering challenges, potential solutions, and communicate project goals and impacts clearly and effectively.
• Proactively work as part of multiple geographically distributed teams that develop robust network of MITRE and other professional connections. 
• Engage and collaborate with engineers and planners, subject matter experts, and defense acquisition professionals
• Comfortably and respectfully engage with both US and foreign nations’ senior military leaders and engineers as well as commercial executives and managers while maintaining appropriate strategic FFRDC partnership relationship.
• Be able to modify and alter course as the environment and sponsor priorities shift. Understand the power of reach-back and be an effective conduit to bring the talent forward to execute at the right time.
• Support the government in balancing support to operations with network and communication security
• Define key metrics that can/should be utilized to establish mission readiness across interdependent systems and quantify risk to operational capability.
• Collaborate with other government, FFRDC, and MITRE leads and organizations to identify and integrate new technology into theater architectures

Qualifications

• BS in a technical discipline, such as Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Computer), Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields; or a BA in International Relations, International Security, or similar fields and 8 years of experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years of experience.
• Experience with Cyberspace defense operations, systems security engineering, security, and system architecture.
• Developing and operationalizing cyber sensor and analytic architectures to enable more efficient and effective OT cybersecurity operations, threat-hunting, and forensic analysis. Execute technical and programmatic duties in the delivery and integration of cyber technologies into stakeholder environments.
• Supporting technical requirements outreach sessions with sponsor stakeholders to identify existing data sources, formats, and interfaces.
• Identifying tools, frameworks, and methods to help integrate disparate structured and unstructured data sources across the sponsor’s work program.
• Conducting cyber mission dependency, criticality, mission failure, and adversary cyberattack scenario analyses to inform design of OT resilient architectures.  
• Researching, developing, operationalizing, evaluating, and improving OT defensive tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for detecting and responding to cyber threats.
• Researching and operationalizing cyber threat intelligence (CTI).
• Developing and performing attack emulation and defensive operations.
• Manage and lead technical project efforts to deliver successful outcomes to sponsor challenges. Work directly with the technical management team to develop staff through leadership and mentorship.
• Familiarity with DoD military missions
• Working knowledge of DoD missions and operational processes
• Experience with Cyberspace defense operations, systems security engineering, security, and system architecture.
• Strong system-of-systems engineering experience across various DoD systems and mission sets.
• Prior experience with US Department of Defense systems of systems integration.
• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Active Top Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$153,000 - $191,500 - $230,000 Annual