Lead, Cyber Operations Engineer

MITRE is seeking strong technical candidates needed to provide engineering support for a Centralized Logging Initiative. Candidates will be part of a fast-paced team of government and contractor personnel to help stand up and maintain a centralized log collection tier for the sponsor organization.

Candidates will comprise a team which performs duties across a broad spectrum of growing demands

• Consult and interface with customers to understand log collection requirements and provide appropriate solutions to integrate data feeds
• Implement cybersecurity-focused dashboards and alerts for the ESOC watch floor to promote an expedited adoption of new logs by analysts
• Advanced SPL search construction and optimization with a focus on security and detection engineering
• Build incident response playbooks and running incident response plans
• Understand M-21-31 Executive Order 14028 and the practical steps to achieve compliance
• Implement metrics to understand environment health and monitor dashboard adoption
• Provide strategic and technical recommendations to sponsor, occasionally writing short whitepapers and/or building executive briefs Some examples our work include:
• Combining cybersecurity domain expertise and contemporary data science skills to enhance adversary detection, network defense, and Security Operations Center (SOC) process improvement.
• Using MITRE ATT&CK to hunt the adversary and build TTP-based defenses.
• Automating container environments via continuous integration and continuous

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related technical field
• Familiarity and experience with Splunk
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site, * Experience applying AI/ML to cyber operations, reverse engineering, digital investigations, or mission analytics
• Experience and knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK implementation

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

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