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The MITRE Corporation Security Automation Framework, Principal in McLean, Virginia
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Department Summary:
As a Cybersecurity Software Engineer with the MITRE Security Automation Framework (SAF) Team, you will enjoy a cooperative environment where you will work closely with secure coding and DevOps experts in an organization that encourages and values collaboration, mentoring, and continuous learning. MITRE is a thought leader in security automation, dedicated to establishing and promoting best practices and standards for industry and government. This MITRE team works across government and industry to develop re-usable content and tools to automate security processes that enable rapid software development (see https://saf.mitre.org).
Roles & Responsibilities:
You will leverage and grow your hands-on skills with software design and development, engaging in the full software engineering lifecycle using modern technologies with an emphasis on cybersecurity. You will gain experience with one or more of the following:
Thought-leading Cybersecurity and DevSecOps
Full-Stack Development
Security Automation of Applications, Systems, and Architectures
Data Analysis and Visualization
Container Security
Cloud Engineering
You will provide thought leadership and problem solving for government customers in collaboration with commercial stakeholders. Specific responsibilities will include:
Design and architect applications
Communicate SAF core concepts to sponsoring organizations
Relay sponsor requirements to the SAF core team
Balance competing requirements to deliver solutions to various organizations (tradeoffs between time, cost, benefit, and staff availability)
Coach staff and mentor junior members
Develop technical proposals for sponsoring organizations to integrate SAF into their development and deployment workflows
Serve as a subject matter expert that is aware of industry trends and best practices and applies them consistently across projects
Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deploy automated systems that meet specific business needs
Basic Qualifications:
A college degree in a technical discipline (including but not limited to Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, etc.)
10 years related experience
Must have DoD Secret clearance (or higher) for consideration
Hands-on experience with architecting and automating cloud native technologies
Experience provisioning IT systems with Infrastructure as Code or Infrastructure as a Service (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and/or Docker)
Experience deploying self-managed software applications and tools in customer environments.
Professional experience in software development process, tools and languages like Python, Ruby, Go, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, Git
Hands-on experience with building and managing CI/CD workflows and tools
Experience performing code reviews
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Strong ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile, automation)
High level desire to help our nation solve its most critical challenges
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, design patterns and algorithms
Knowledge of software design patterns
Strong written and verbal communication skills
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Secret
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Fitness - DHS
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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