Lead Cybersecurity Engineer: Secure Clinical IT Systems

Children's National Medical Center; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 156,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Hospital is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer in Silver Spring, MD to oversee the engineering of security applications and systems, ensure IT standards compliance, and lead performance testing, deployment and monitoring of cybersecurity tools. The role requires strong leadership, a broad security toolkit, and the ability to communicate risk to diverse audiences.

The incumbent will guide initiatives across firewalls, asset management, access management, and identity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, engineering, or related field or equivalent.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience focusing on engineering and implementation of controls, systems and applications.
• Experience leading cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks.
• Strong communication and ability to explain risk to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading deployment of cybersecurity applications and systems (firewalls, AD, access management).

Responsibilities

• Leads efforts identifying cybersecurity system performance.
• Oversees operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity apps and systems.
• Leads testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems (firewalls, network analysis tools, access management, vulnerability management).
• Leads response actions to recover from system failures.
• Leads curation of reporting metrics for cybersecurity systems.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Communication skills

Security engineering

Systems engineering

Test analysis

Performance tradeoffs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

Firewall management

Asset management tools

Active Directory

Access management systems

Job description

Children's National Hospital is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer in Silver Spring, MD to oversee the engineering of security applications and systems, ensure IT standards compliance, and lead performance testing, deployment and monitoring of cybersecurity tools. The role requires strong leadership, a broad security toolkit, and the ability to communicate risk to diverse audiences.

The incumbent will guide initiatives across firewalls, asset management, access management, and identity