Senior Info Sec Engineer

Senior Info Sec Engineer

Position (260000HL) at Children's National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. This role supports the Info Sec mission of securing the patient experience and focuses on designing, building, configuring, testing, monitoring, and maintaining security systems and applications in compliance with the hospital’s IT standards.

The Senior Information Security Engineer will:

• Design, build, configure, test, monitor, and maintain information security systems and applications.
• Initiate tasks to identify cybersecurity system performance.
• Shape tasks involving operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems.
• Coordinate testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications.
• Coordinate actions necessary to recover from system failures.
• Identify key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.
• Participate in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and operational testing.
• Apply engineering practices related to performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency trade‑offs.

• Initiates and executes tasks involving the identification of cybersecurity system performance.
• Initiate and shapes tasking involving the operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems.
• Coordinates actions involving the testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications.
• Coordinates actions necessary to recover from system failures.
• Identifies key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.

• Anticipate and respond to customer needs; follow up until needs are met.

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior.
• Partner with all team members to achieve goals.
• Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions.

• Contribute to a positive work environment.
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change.
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes.
• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment.
• Use resources efficiently.
• Search for less costly ways of doing things.

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance.
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation.
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and take time to resolve the situation.
• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication.
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co‑workers.
• Attend carefully to important details—practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review to self‑check behavior and performance.

Maryland – Silver Spring

Inventa Towers 1, Inventa Place, Silver Spring, 20910

Information Technology

Operations

Regular – Full‑Time

Day

128,452 – 214,087

Childrens 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.

It is the policy of Children’s National Hospital to maintain a “drug‑free” work environment, prohibiting the illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances and the misuse of legal substances.