1 day ago
Fort Meade, MD, USA +4 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$173k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop secure, resilient 5G/nextG cellular architectures, reference architectures, design patterns, solutions, and implementation strategies for government customers.
- Develop and mature enterprise 5G/nextG strategies, roadmaps, standards, governance, operational metrics, and wireless broadband infrastructure solutions.
- Lead or support 5G/nextG cybersecurity architecture, research, engineering, and implementation across U.S. government projects and programs.
- Apply AI, machine learning, automation, zero trust, 3GPP standards, and emerging nextG standards to telecommunications architecture and cybersecurity challenges.
- Develop security requirements, controls, design decisions, test objectives, acquisition criteria, and implementation guidance from threat models and risk assessments.
- Provide technical and strategic recommendations on policy, standards, acquisition, sustainment, architecture implementation, and technology transitions.
- Collaborate with government officials, program leaders, engineers, operators, and industry stakeholders and communicate technical findings and risk decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Minimum related experience is 10 years with a bachelor's degree, 8 years with a master's degree, or 5 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Advanced ability to architect secure enterprise solutions and apply zero trust principles to complex nextG systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in 3GPP, ENISA, and GSMA 5G/nextG standards, architecture, and system design.
- Experience in 5G/nextG telecommunications, wireless network architecture, telecommunications systems engineering, or related communications technologies.
- Experience with wireless broadband infrastructure and large-scale or enterprise deployments.
- Experience applying cybersecurity principles to 5G/nextG networks, architectures, and threat environments.
- Expertise in network security, identity and access management, application security, data protection, endpoint security, and cloud-hosted systems.
- Experience developing technical and security reference architectures, standards, design patterns, operational metrics, and reference models.
- Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, orchestration, SIEM, and security data lake technologies.
- Ability to adapt AI/ML capabilities to cybersecurity and operational environments and support secure telecommunications deployments.
- Strong knowledge of attack techniques, cyber threat landscapes, and threat-informed architecture and engineering practices.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
- Active Top Secret U.S. government security clearance and eligibility to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree, relevant professional certifications, security architecture framework experience, threat-modeling experience, U.S. government policy experience, C3 operations or governance experience, SIEM and security data lake implementation experience, and senior-level 5G/nextG technical leadership.
Benefits
- Onsite work arrangement requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.
- MITRE states that it provides competitive benefits and meaningful career development; detailed benefits are available through its benefits information.
- The role requires an active Top Secret clearance and requires the hired candidate to have or obtain Top Secret/SCI clearance within one year of hire.
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About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.