Cybersecurity Lead

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was established as a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1962. The NICHD mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. Components of the NICHD have differing environments and needs. Operating environments include UNIX, Linux, Windows, and MAC. Similarly, software for system operation, management, and application support varies among divisions. 

  

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY:    

• Oversee routine vulnerability scanning capabilities across networks and systems. 

• Oversees patching, hardening and baselining activities across networks; ensures other stakeholders are in compliance with established patching/hardening policies. 

• Maintains, configures, and ensures the successful deployment of logging/auditing tools across the networks; ensures logging activities are functional across all networks. 

• Maintains system baseline and configuration management items, including security event monitoring policies in a manner determined and agreed to by the program management. 

• Interacts with both Systems engineers and O&M personnel to ensure a complete and functioning system that meets requirements. 

• Ensures all Network Defense capabilities are kept current, patched, securely configured, and communicates status to management. 

• Analyzes the data flows into, out of, and across networks to ensure security gaps do not exist and data exchange is in line with system classification level. 

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS PREFERRED:   

• Strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, negotiation, conflict management, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule/budget. 

• Able to communicate complex technical concepts and project information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Ability to work effectively as a member of an integrated team and the ability to negotiate reasonable compromises among a diverse group of stakeholders. 

• Ability to work in a fast paced, technically challenging area; ability to anticipate changes, problems, or activities, assess impacts and recommend sound solutions. 

• Able to work independently and motivated, capable of working across teams and organizations. 

• Prefer experience with data analytics and combining data sets from multiple sources to provide reports for identifying risk and measuring security posture. 

• Prefer strong skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule. 

• Expert level of experience with Microsoft products Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio. 

• Prior experience using a helpdesk ticketing system such as ServiceNow is preferred. 

• Prior federal government IT Security experience is preferred. 

MINIMUM/GENERAL EXPERIENCE:    

• Four (4) to six (6) years of hands-on experience providing technology leadership for IT Security.  

• Three (3) or more years of experience of new and emerging cybersecurity technologies including but not limited to: hands-on tool usage of BigFix, Splunk, Tripwire, Cylance, Tenable etc.  

• Senior Cyber Security Engineer.  

• Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).  

• Experience with incident response and handling methodologies. 

• Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities. 

MINIMUM EDUCATION:    

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related STEM discipline with ten 

(10) or more years of Cybersecurity-related experience and appropriate certification(s) 

(CISSP, CISA, CISM, SSCP, etc.). Additional four (4) years of experience may be substituted  

in lieu of degree. 

Overview

We are seeking a Cybersecurity Lead to perform various activities to support the success of the team in providing quality IT services to NICHD.

 

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