Cybersecurity Operations Manager

2 weeks ago


Bloomington, Illinois, United States MITRE Full time

Why choose between impactful work and a rewarding career? At MITRE, you can achieve both. Our team is dedicated to addressing the most pressing challenges facing our nation, while we prioritize the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE stands apart from typical technology firms; we are a not-for-profit organization focused on serving the public interest, free from commercial conflicts that could influence our mission. The research and development centers we operate for the government create a lasting impact across various sectors, including cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We strive to make a difference every day—working towards a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace embodies our core values, offering competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that values diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career advancement. If this resonates with you, consider joining MITRE and contributing to meaningful change.

Department Overview:

The Risk Management & Analysis Department within MITRE's Global Security & Risk Management Division is responsible for organizing, coordinating, and focusing intelligence and investigative efforts to identify and mitigate threats to the company's sensitive resources posed by foreign adversaries and competitors. The Cyber Operations Lead will integrate essential investigative tools and processes to facilitate insider threat fusion hub operations, enabling early detection of threats and effective monitoring of various platforms and scenarios. This role will enhance technical capability development and scenario engineering, while also providing analytical support to ongoing investigations and risk assessments. This includes a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing MITRE operations and programs for criticality, assessing threats, identifying vulnerabilities, and developing countermeasures as part of MITRE's comprehensive enterprise security risk management strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Utilizing investigative expertise, knowledge of the security domain, and cybersecurity engineering skills to advance multifaceted and sensitive enterprise-wide Counterintelligence and Insider Threat investigations.
  • Implementing and continuously refining threat detection capabilities and analytical response methodologies.
  • Analyzing data from enterprise threat detection initiatives, correlating information from multiple sources, identifying trends and actionable threats, and recommending effective risk mitigations.
  • Providing technical support for insider threat fusion hub operations, ensuring early threat detection and effective monitoring of platforms and scenarios.

Basic Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Possession of an active Top-Secret Clearance.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience in cybersecurity engineering and operations, including analysis tuning/configuration and event mitigation/remediation workflows.
  • Proven ability to leverage technical tools, data, and systems to optimize investigative processes.
  • System Administration experience for endpoint monitoring software.
  • Experience in developing agent policy sets and maintaining systems across the enterprise.
  • Knowledge of IT security policies and procedures.
  • Understanding of log and event information to detect anomalous behaviors.
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site work.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in the Intelligence Analysis domain, including data research and analysis, and developing analytical reports.
  • Knowledge of Counterintelligence operations and tactics to identify and counter intelligence collection.
  • Familiarity with Insider Threat Program requirements and the ability to respond to applicable risk indicators.
  • Experience applying investigative techniques in formal inquiries and due diligence activities.

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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