Associate Cybersecurity Engineer

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

ID: 7113935
Posted: October 19, 2022
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

The CERT Cyber Workforce Development (CWD) team aims to lower the cost and time required to build cybersecurity expertise and to amplify that expertise to a globally distributed workforce. To achieve this, we develop and integrate innovative tools and processes to train, exercise, and assess cybersecurity professionals and teams. In doing so, CWD pioneers research and development efforts designed to counter cybersecurity threats to our nation.

CWD develops solutions for improving an organization’s cyber workforce development program. CWD partners with sponsors to identify and resolve gaps that hinder a workforce’s ability to counter rapidly evolving adversary tactics in cyberspace. We achieve this by guiding organizations through improvement of their cyber workforce’s knowledge, skills, and abilities.

CWD’s core strength is our supportive and highly collaborative culture. Our team recognizes the importance of our mission: to ensure that our nation’s cybersecurity workforce is the best in the world. 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. We provide numerous internal and external training and professional development opportunities for members of our team. We also learn from each other through cross-training and mentoring.

Position Summary:

As a member of CWD, you will work with other team members to develop and deliver cybersecurity training capabilities, programs, and software for US Government departments, agencies, and associated organizations.

Requirements:

BS with three (3) years of applicable experience or MS with one (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
Duties:

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 to support simulations, training programs, and cybersecurity competitions
Define, create, and maintain technical solutions to support government cybersecurity programs
Work regularly with a wide range of software and hardware technologies
Define and solve challenging problems for cybersecurity simulations, training, and competitions
Develop and deliver cybersecurity training content to government sponsors
Develop software proofs of concept and prototypes
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong oral and written communications
Effective technical problem solving
Solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals and best practices. Specific topics may include:
Host and network hardening
Incident response
Digital forensics
Penetration testing
Reverse engineering
Open-source security tools (e.g., Kali, Metasploit, Security Onion, Elastic Stack, etc.)
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.)
Desired Experience:

Programming (e.g., Python, C#, C, C++, TypeScript/Angular, Java, etc.)
Enterprise experience working with common commercial and open-source cybersecurity tools
DevOps technologies (e.g., Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Federal government experience involving information technology, cybersecurity, or management of large-scale government networks