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Department Summary:

The Applied Cybersecurity Department (P762) within the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) (P700) seeking Principal Applied Cybersecurity Strategist to support NCF R&D programs. We will provide you with challenging opportunities to apply and expand your project management, process improvement, innovation and transformation, and analytics skills. You will use your abilities to address complex issues of critical national and global significance. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed professionals with a wide variety of interests and a foundation of skills in cybersecurity, cybersecurity process implementation, and knowledge of various government cybersecurity regulations/federal laws.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Uses broad program management and cyber expertise to identify and create cyber solutions in research environments
• Develops innovative offerings and identifies opportunities for cyber capabilities by applying a mix of strategic and technical knowledge of policy and regulations across public and private sectors.
• Provide project management leadership for applied cybersecurity research to include engagement strategies, and technical writing promoting the adoption of project outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong familiarity and skill in one or more of the following areas: Cyber Policy, Strategy, and Privacy, Applied Cybersecurity, Cyber Analytics, Cyber Architecture and Resilience, Cyber Operations.
• Leads complex cyber engineering, architecting, and solutioning projects and tasks at the enterprise level, to include using industry-based frameworks such as the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) RMF.
• Collaborate with sponsors to identify operational and cybersecurity engineering challenges, potential solutions, and strategies for execution.
• Comfortably and respectfully engage with sponsor leadership and MITRE managers.
• 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.
• Work with leadership to translate MITRE’s mission and strategy into operations by contributing to the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) goal of increasing cybersecurity research areas.
• Apply knowledge of cyber solutions and standards to promote the most impactful application of resources.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of Federal government cybersecurity laws, regulations, policies, standards and executive orders.
• Demonstrated experience with the design, development, and implementation of enterprise cybersecurity solutions/programs,
• Demonstrated experience in the delivery of detailed cybersecurity assessments and recommendations that produce a measurable increase in an organization’s cybersecurity capabilities
• Demonstrated experience with the implementation and management of cybersecurity controls such as NIST 800-53 security controls
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 Core Functions (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover).
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of innovative and critical thinking
• Knowledge of NIST specific cybersecurity regulations, policies, and procedures
• Experience in strategic planning, project management, and technical writing

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$172,500 – $215,500 – $258,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. For further information please visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website Know Your Rights Poster.

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