Lead Information Security Engineer – Patient Data Security

10100 Children's Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Children’s National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer to oversee and manage engineering of cybersecurity applications and systems in line with IT standards. You will validate performance and functional requirements through configuration, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The role requires a Bachelor's in a related field and 10+ years in cybersecurity, with proven leadership across security controls, testing, reporting, and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience focused on engineering and implementation of controls, systems, and applications.
• Ability to communicate risk concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading cybersecurity applications and systems (firewalls, asset management, access management, AD).
• Experience applying systems engineering principles: requirements, design, testing, integration, validation.
• Experience leading in tradeoffs among performance, cost, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security controls

Communication skills

Risk communication

Firewall management

Access management

Active Directory

Systems engineering

Requirements definition

Test planning

Documentation

Performance tradeoffs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Active Directory

Job description

Children’s National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer to oversee and manage engineering of cybersecurity applications and systems in line with IT standards. You will validate performance and functional requirements through configuration, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The role requires a Bachelor's in a related field and 10+ years in cybersecurity, with proven leadership across security controls, testing, reporting, and cross-functional