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Lead Cybersecurity Engineer Security Clearance

Job in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, 80901, USA
Listing for: MITRE Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Network Security, IT Consultant
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Lead Cybersecurity Engineer with Security Clearance
At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future. MITRE's Secure Enterprise and Cloud Architectures Department (L523) in the Cyber Engineering Division provides subject matter expertise and consulting to Federal Government sponsors in enterprise-wide security architecture, with specific emphasis on cloud computing, zero trust architecture, 5G, and networking technologies.

The department advances the state of cyber security while leveraging the functionality and cost efficiencies of advanced architectures and technologies. The department is part of MITRE Technology & Engineering, driving mission impact by delivering nation-leading, differentiated capabilities to a rich set of consequential national programs across the six Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that MITRE leads. Our goal is to develop solutions and deliver outcomes for our sponsors, to ensure the security, health, and prosperity of the American public.

MITRE Technology & Engineering applies the expertise of technical staff and subject matter experts across our programs by fostering and developing technical talent, stewarding technical depth, conceiving and executing research, and ensuring MITRE's capabilities-people, methods, labs, platforms, and environments-remain on the leading edge.

Roles & Responsibilities :
The Cybersecurity Engineer will be a core member of the technical team and serve as the first-line support to our United States Space Force (USSF) Sponsor in Albuquerque. The position requires direct in-person contributions to our Albuquerque-based Sponsor. Colorado Springs candidates will be considered but frequent travel to Albuquerque is required. This is an onsite position for Albuquerque candidates.
* Develop and deliver innovative and secure architectures, solutions and strategies for enterprise IT and the cloud for government customers
* Provide recommendations on ensuring systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives
* Research and develop unique, cutting-edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security
* Collaborate with senior government officials, providing technical and strategic advice to cyber challenges identified by the government
* Apply knowledge of network architectures, security technologies, zero trust and cyber threats to provide customers the ability to protect, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks directed against customer systems
* Leverage your vision and expertise to advance the state of the art in the use of AI/ML and zero trust to improve the security posture of government systems.

Basic Qualifications:

* Typically requires minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; 6 years of related experience with a Master's degree; or 3 years of related experience with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience
* Advanced ability to architect secure solutions at the enterprise level and to apply zero trust principles to the architecture of complex systems
* Expertise applying security controls and best practices for network security, identity and access management, application security, data protection, and endpoint security
* Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, and orchestration technologies and their application within enterprise security architectures and zero trust
* Experience creating security reference architectures, standards, and design patterns for enterprise use
* Familiarity with emerging security technologies and patterns
* Strong knowledge of common attack techniques and threat landscapes
* Experience with cybersecurity technologies and tools, trends, and emerging capabilities
* Ability to lead and work with others to solve challenging technical problems
* Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences to include government senior executives
* Must possess a Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Clearance

* Per the U.S. Government's…
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