Lead Info Sec Engineer

Lead Information Security Engineer

(260001BN)

The Lead Information Security Engineer supports the Info Sec mission of securing the patient experience. This position oversees engineering of information security applications and systems to ensure compliance with Children's National Hospital IT standards. Responsibilities include design, deployment, and optimization of data pipelines feeding into Splunk and other logging and analysis platforms. This involves onboarding new data sources, parsing logs, maintaining data integrity, documentation, and optimizing infrastructure for enterprise‑scale data volumes while ensuring alignment with security compliance requirements.

• Integrate platforms with SIEM and SOAR for enrichment, correlation, and case workflow. Maintain posture metrics and report them to partner teams, Security leadership, and the CISO on a defined cadence.
• Own operational reliability, configuration, upgrades, integration health, and change governance for assigned applications and systems, with documented runbook.
• Serve as technical lead for vendor communication and data ingestion tasks. Manage support escalations and track case resolution.
• Partner with internal teams to determine security platform needs, translating requirements into sustainable technical capability.
• Manage and optimize resources for highest capable performance and security based on CNH compliance requirements.
• Build dashboards, reports, and other documentation, providing leadership with clear insight into resources and current system state.

Minimum Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline, or equivalent training and work experience.

Minimum Work Experience
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications.

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Experience leading application of key cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; ability to communicate risk‑related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience leading implementation of cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory.
• Experience leading in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing.
• Experience leading engineering practices related to performing operational tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency.
• Experience leading performance measurement and analysis of cybersecurity and IT systems.

• Lead efforts involving identification of cybersecurity system performance.
• Oversee operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems.
• Lead testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications.
• Lead response actions necessary to recover from system failures.
• Lead curation of key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.

District of Columbia – Washington;
Remote work location available at 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, 20010.

Children's National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.