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Associate Cybersecurity Engineer
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Remote Eligibility
On-site
Domain
Incident response
State
Pennsylvania
City
Pittsburgh
Job Description
Posted on:
November 12, 2024
Primary NIST Speciality
Operate and Maintain
NIST Sub-speciality
Systems Administration
Seniority
Experienced
Salary ($K)
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Summary and company overview
Position Summary: As a member of CMR, you will work with other team members to develop and deliver cybersecurity readiness capabilities, programs, and software for US Government departments, agencies, and associated organizations. Although not essential, you will have opportunities to perform applied and, in some cases, fundamental research in the fields of cybersecurity, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
CMR’s core strength is our supportive and highly collaborative culture. Our team recognizes the importance of our mission: to ensure that our nation and our partners have the tools and capabilities they need to neutralize threats in cyberspace. We are looking for people of character who share our passion, love technology and teamwork, and who have a desire to teach, learn from, and collaborate with others. Your intellectual curiosity and desire to learn new concepts and skills alongside your teammates is what we need most—attitude is everything! We provide numerous internal and external training and professional development opportunities for members of our team and learn from each other through cross-training and mentoring.
Responsibilities
Collaborate and problem-solve with fellow team members
Collect project requirements and translate them into technical work
Produce creative and engaging hands-on cybersecurity challenges and exercises
Build physical and virtualized networks; define and solve challenging problems for cybersecurity simulations, training programs, and competitions
Define, create, and maintain technical solutions to support government cybersecurity programs
Work regularly with a wide range of software and hardware technologies
Develop and deliver cybersecurity training content to government sponsors
Develop software proofs of concept and prototypes
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
- BS with 3 years of applicable experience or MS with 1 year of applicable experience in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity or related technical discipline
- Willingness to travel to various locations in support of the SEI’s overall mission. This includes within the SEI and CMU community, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings on occasion. Minimal travel (5-10%)
- You will be subject to a background check and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- System administration of server and desktop platforms (e.g., Windows, Linux)
- Network design, configuration, and troubleshooting (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, proxies, etc.)
- Scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
- Virtualization and cloud technologies (e.g., VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc.)
- Programming (e.g., Python, C#, C, C++, TypeScript/Angular, Java, etc.)
- Reverse engineering
- DevOps technologies (e.g., Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Federal government experience involving information technology, cybersecurity, or management of large-scale government networks
Additional commentary
Our benefits philosophy encompasses three driving priorities: Choice, Control, and Well-being. Learn more at https://www.cmu.edu/jobs/benefits-at-a-glance/. You can join an institution and inspire innovations that change the world.
Summary and company overview
Position Summary: As a member of CMR, you will work with other team members to develop and deliver cybersecurity readiness capabilities, programs, and software for US Government departments, agencies, and associated organizations. Although not essential, you will have opportunities to perform applied and, in some cases, fundamental research in the fields of cybersecurity, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
CMR’s core strength is our supportive and highly collaborative culture. Our team recognizes the importance of our mission: to ensure that our nation and our partners have the tools and capabilities they need to neutralize threats in cyberspace. We are looking for people of character who share our passion, love technology and teamwork, and who have a desire to teach, learn from, and collaborate with others. Your intellectual curiosity and desire to learn new concepts and skills alongside your teammates is what we need most—attitude is everything! We provide numerous internal and external training and professional development opportunities for members of our team and learn from each other through cross-training and mentoring.
