Cyber Operations Department Manager

4 weeks ago


Bloomington, Illinois, United States The MITRE Corporation Full time
Cyber Operations Department Manager

MITRE is seeking a highly experienced Cyber Operations Department Manager to lead and grow our Cyber Operations team. As a key member of our Information Security team, you will be responsible for refining the department's mission, vision, and goals, and setting the technical direction of the Department's capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cyber operations, threat informed defense, and cyber deception, with experience in leading deeply technical InfoSec teams. You will be responsible for attracting, developing, and retaining an outstanding workforce, and overseeing all aspects of project and department performance, technical quality, development, and budget.

We are looking for a strategic thinker who can drive alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission, and who can activate the Good Growth Strategy. If you are a motivated, self-starting, and continuously learning individual who enjoys working in a tight-knit team, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Refine the department's mission, vision, and goals
  • Set the technical direction of the Department's capabilities
  • Attract, develop, and retain an outstanding workforce
  • Oversee all aspects of project and department performance, technical quality, development, and budget
Requirements:
  • Extensive experience with security group operations, including areas such as continuous monitoring of systems and alarms, incident response, workflow management, etc.
  • Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 10 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 7 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
  • Experience, thorough familiarity with, and demonstrated success understanding and staying technically current in multiple key security areas such as defending corporate perimeters and Internet facing systems, both on prem and cloud, defending user workstations in a variety of configurations including and zero trust, next gen technology such as application aware firewalls, EDR, Zero Trust
  • Strong analytical skills, demonstrated ability to decompose complex technical problems into manageable portions, identify driving factors in technical decisions
  • Extensive experience with operational design and tradeoffs balancing interests of business need and risk tolerance
  • Experience with operational security product and service evaluations
  • Demonstrated success in leading deeply technical InfoSec teams
  • Demonstrated success working with people and coaching talent
  • Strong technical writing, editing, and presentation skills, including demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical topics and recommendations
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance


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