Solutions Engineer

The CERT Situational Awareness helps organizations, particularly those within the DoW, federal government, and critical infrastructure sectors, develop and maintain awareness of their cyber hybrid environments (cloud, on-premises, mobile), identify risks, and make informed decisions concerning cybersecurity, cyber resiliency, and cyber survivability. The team applies cybersecurity, systems engineering, and operational analysis techniques to understand complex architectures and the relationships among systems, missions, workflows, data, and stakeholders., As a member of the team, you will be responsible for:

• Providing strategic technical support to senior decision makers.
• Leading or contributing to teams in the development, evaluation and improvement of security architectures.
• Developing and analyzing system of systems (SoS) architectures, systems requirements, engineering, analysis, technology evaluation and deployment guidance.
• Developing and evaluating advanced analytical techniques, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), behavioral analytics, and data-driven approaches for cyber operations.
• Documenting current-state architectures, identifying capability and coverage gaps, evaluating technology integration strategies, recommending security solutions, and developing mission threads/workflows.
• Supporting organizations in planning, assessing, and implementing Zero Trust and cyber resilience strategies.
• Evaluating, piloting, and transitioning new technologies into operational environments.
• Developing of cybersecurity, technology, and architecture roadmaps aligned with mission and business objectives.
• Assessing organizational capabilities, security architectures, operational processes, and cyber resilience to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Becoming a respected domain expert by customers, commercial vendors, and the Internet community.
• Contribute to diverse teams composed of colleagues, customers, and others, to deliver projects
• Occasionally acts in a managerial capacity by leading, mentoring, and motivating less-senior staff.
• Leads small to intermediate projects., 75% Lead support to government program offices in the areas of strategy; process/policies; requirements elicitation; design and architecture; operations; outreach; and training.

15% Enable the transition and appropriate focus of situational awareness analysis and engineering approaches and tools into operational environments.

10% Design, prototype, and transition tactical analysis studies and tools appropriate for operational use in situational awareness.

• BS with eight (8) years or MS with five (5) years or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Willingness to travel to various locations to support the SEI’s overall mission. This includes within the SEI and CMU community, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings on occasion. Moderate Travel (20%).
• You will be subject to a background check and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of War security clearance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to present technical topics to audiences from senior leadership to technical experts.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to promote practical solutions to tough security problems.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, systems administration, programming, and/or cloud.
• Strong research and writing skills.
• Ability to work at the SoS architecture level to identify and understand tradeoffs of various approaches.
• Experience working with the government, or within a critical infrastructure sector.

Desired Experience:

• PhD in Computer Science & Engineering, System Engineering or related discipline with two (2) years of experience in cybersecurity/network operations, model-based system engineering (MBSE), or workflow/process analysis or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Enterprise/system-of-systems/system/security architecture
• Security operations deploying or supporting large-scale network security monitoring infrastructures.
• Security research
• Programming or software engineering
• Networking
• Testing
• Prior responsibility in leading a body of work consisting of numerous large-scale projects and multiple customers or external sponsors.
• History of contributions to the broader industry or research community and experience in a variety of network security areas.

You will work within the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Carnegie Mellon University’s SEI researches complex software engineering, cyber, and AI problems; creates and tests innovative technologies; and transitions mature solutions into practice for the Department of War (DoW) and federal government., * Please visit “Why Carnegie Mellon” to learn more about becoming part of an institution inspiring innovations that change the world.