Info Sec Engineer I

Children's National Medical Center; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 104,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Medical Center is seeking an Information Security Engineer 1 to support the IT security mission. The role entails engineering of cybersecurity applications and systems to ensure compliance with IT standards, plus configuration, testing, monitoring and troubleshooting to meet performance and functional requirements.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 1+ year(s) of cybersecurity engineering experience, with strong communication skills and knowledge

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to convey risk to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and Active Directory.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles including requirements, design, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in analysis and documentation of cybersecurity system performance.
• Operate, monitor, and analyze cybersecurity applications and systems.
• Assist in testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems (firewalls, analysis tools, access management, vulnerability management).
• Respond to system failures with recovery procedures.
• Report key metrics for cybersecurity systems.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Engineering

Communication

Requirements Analysis

System Design

Testing & Metrics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Firewalls

Network Analysis Tools

Access Management Systems

Vulnerability Management

Active Directory

Job description

1 Inventa PlaceSilver Spring, MD 20910

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

10018 IT Security

Pay Range

$103,812.80 - $173,035.20

The Information Security Engineer 1, supports the InfoSec mission of securing the patient experience. This position performs engineering of information security applications and systems to ensure that they comply with Children's National Hospital IT standards. Individuals in this position will perform configuration, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting of such systems in order to validate performance and functional requirements.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in a computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline or equivalent training and work experience (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

1 year 1+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of key cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences
• Understanding of practices associated with implementation of Cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory
• Understanding of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing
• Understanding of engineering practices related to performing opertional tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency
• Knowledge of principles around test measurement and analysis

Functional Accountabilities

Cyber Engineering

• Participates in the analysis and documentation of cybersecurity system performance
• Participates in the operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems
• Participates in the testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications
• Responds to system failures by participating and executing recovery procedures.
• Responsible for the reporting of key metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual's base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

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. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.