Cyber Professional

Position: Cyber New Professional
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Department Summary:

Start your career with MITRE's Cyber New Professionals (CNP) Program, where you can solve complex cybersecurity problems while gaining a broad set of experiences, developing diverse skills, and building your professional network along world-class cyber experts. This program has developed many cybersecurity experts and leaders throughout MITRE, government sponsors, and private industry. Our program alumni have a proven track record of providing impact on our nation's most critical cybersecurity challenges.

All CNP members benefit from the program's:

* Carefully designed onboarding program

* Corpus of challenging and enriching rotational experiences

* Curated training opportunities to develop new skills or enhance existing skills

* Access to mentors who are world-class cybersecurity experts

* Vibrant cohort of fellow participants who help to enrich the experience for one another

CNP Onboarding

The CNP onboarding program supports program members when starting their careers at MITRE or while starting new rotational opportunities. Members learn about MITRE, its culture, and its organizational units. We provide resources to transition members into the corporation and we provide the support system to enrich your career experience. When starting new rotations, the program provides the tools, best practices, and lessons learned to set you up for success.

CNP Project Rotations

CNP staff have the opportunity to work on a number of projects that provide a breadth of experiences to develop into well-rounded cybersecurity professionals and opportunities to work alongside subject matter experts to develop depth of knowledge in identified areas of interest. Projects enable members to:

* Combine hands-on operational experience with best practices to develop intelligence-enabled solutions (MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE Engage, and CALDERA) that counter advanced adversaries.

* Enhance the security, safety, and resiliency of critical cyber systems and infrastructure by applying threat-informed cybersecurity principles.

* Protect critical infrastructure from malicious cyber or non-kinetic attack or disruption.

CNP Training Opportunities

Through their projects and CNP, staff are provided opportunities to participate in classroom-style and cohort-based training to learn new technical or professional skills or to further develop existing ones.

Roles & Responsibilities :

CNP Work Opportunities

Apply cybersecurity skills and expertise to the following areas:

* Autonomous Cyber

* Cloud Security

* Cross Domain Solutions

* Critical Infrastructure Resiliency and Safety

* Crypto and Trust

* Cyber Adversary Emulation

* Cyber Analytics and Malware

* Cyber Assessments

* Cyber Deception and Adversary Engagement

* Cyber Effects and Reverse Engineering

* Cyber Forensics

* Cyber Resiliency

* Cyber Safety

* Cyber Strategy and Governance

* Cyber Supply Chain

* Cyber Threat Intelligence

* Defensive Cyber Operations

* Enterprise Security Architecture

* Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management

* Internet of Things (IoT) Systems Security

* Operational Technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) Device Security

* Operational Technology Engineering and Response

* Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation

* Operational Technology Adversary Emulation

* Countermeasures for Operational Technologies (OT)

* Privacy

* Security Automation and Management

* Software Assurance

Work will include:

* Conceive of and advance novel technical ideas

* Provide deep analyses whose results drive decision-making by our sponsors

* Build proof-of-concept systems that leverage new technology and concepts

* Engage with the vendor community, academia, and our sponsors to raise the bar on cyber security throughout the industry

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor or Graduate Degree in a domain-relevant field

* Requires 0-2 years of related experience

* Experience applying learning outside of the classroom through relevant research or intern/co-op work

* Applied knowledge of…