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Do you have a Threat Intelligence background and an interest in Operational Technology (OT) or Control Systems? Have you learned about or worked with OT/Control Systems and have an interest in Threat Intelligence? The Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center is seeking Threat Intelligence Engineers in the Modeling, Intelligence, and Sim for Critical Infrastructure department (L542). This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with polygraph, and the ability to work in-person in Bethesda, Maryland.

Job Responsibilities:

The Department is currently seeking mid-career intelligence professionals to contribute individual technical expertise and support to a diverse and growing work program in support of critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities include to:

• Evaluate existing methodologies and develop recommendations for improved processes, tools, analytics, and infrastructure;
• Identify and leverage capabilities from across MITRE that enable our sponsors to measurably increase mission impact;
• Identify and leverage capabilities from across MITRE that enable our sponsors to develop mitigations to nation state threat activities and capabilities;
• Support intelligence collection operations by partnering closely with sponsor leaders to apply human and technological capabilities that enable successful operational/mission outcomes;
• Convey technical, analytic, and organizational findings, recommendations, and approaches to senior executive decision makers.
• Provide cross-organization coordination, logistics, and administrative support to our sponsors in a timely, rapport-building, and detail-oriented fashion.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI level security clearance, including polygraph
  • Ability to work the majority of time on campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience or interest in operational technology, space, or weapon system operations, vulnerabilities or threats such as physical, cyber, supply chain or insiders.
• Ability to work with others to solve challenging technical problems.
• Possess working knowledge of or strong interest in core physical, cybersecurity, supply chain or insider threat principles, defenses, policies, or standards.
• Ability to think critically, work in group settings, and be proactive in pursuing research and problem solving.
• Experience with analyzing raw threat intelligence from one or more collection disciplines (ex. SIGINT, HUMINT, GEOINT, etc.) in support to operations and/or analysis.
• Experience navigating all source and finished intelligence repositories and open source analytic holdings to gather an understanding of the threat and mitigation options
• Ability to work across government and non-government organizations to coordinate operations, communications, and scheduling, and to provide administrative support as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with broad intelligence community organizational and governance structures, policy generation processes, life cycle acquisition processes, and/or requirements processes.

• Familiarity with control systems in a critical infrastructure environment (manufacturing, power plant, water/wastewater, or equivalent) with awareness of of OT, ICS, SCADA, PLCs, DCS, IEDs, Industrial Firewalls, or DCS and related hardware and software
• Experience or interest in reviewing national level policies or approaches to nation state threat actor capabilities and activities.
• Familiarity with the intent, capability and operations of top tier nation-station adversary threat groups targeting operational technology in critical infrastructure, space, or weapon systems.
• Familiarity with the National or Defense Critical Infrastructure Programs
• Familiarity with policies, executive orders, and guidance for critical infrastructure protection related to cyber, physical, supply chain or insider threat.
• Familiarity with common mitigations to cyber, physical, supply chain or insider threat vectors.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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