Cyber Defense Director
1 day ago
We are looking for a seasoned Cyber Defense Director to lead our Information Security team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to refine the department's mission, vision, and goals, and to drive technical excellence in our cyber defense capabilities. As a key member of our organization, 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.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in security group operations, including continuous monitoring of systems and alarms, incident response, workflow management, and extensive experience with cyber operations theory, approaches, and supporting technologies. They will also possess excellent analytical skills, demonstrated ability to decompose complex technical problems into manageable portions, identify driving factors in technical decisions, and experience with operational design and tradeoffs balancing interests of business need and risk tolerance.
This role requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site work. The successful candidate will have a top-secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain it within one year from the date of hire.
About MITRE
MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest. We operate R&D centers for the government, creating lasting impact in fields such as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. Our workplace reflects our values: competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth.
Benefits
As a member of our team, you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits, including health insurance, retirement savings plans, and paid time off. You will also have access to ongoing training and development opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and a dynamic and inclusive work environment.
Required Skills and Qualifications
The selected candidate will need to have:
- In-depth 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.
- Extensive experience and expertise with cyber operations theory, approaches, and supporting technologies including threat informed defense, cyber deception, cyber threat analysis and information sharing.
- 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 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.
Estimated Salary Range: $180,000 - $250,000 per annum.
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