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Principal 5G/ nextG Cybersecurity Architect

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Principal 5G/ nextG Cybersecurity Architect in USA new

  • Fort Meade, MD

Responsibilities

  • Develop secure, resilient 5G/nextG cellular architectures, reference architectures, design patterns, solutions, and implementation strategies for government customers.
  • Develop and mature enterprise 5G/nextG strategies, roadmaps, standards, governance, operational metrics, and wireless broadband infrastructure solutions.
  • Lead or support 5G/nextG cybersecurity architecture, research, engineering, and implementation across U.S. government projects and programs.
  • Apply AI, machine learning, automation, zero trust, 3GPP standards, and emerging nextG standards to telecommunications architecture and cybersecurity challenges.
  • Develop security requirements, controls, design decisions, test objectives, acquisition criteria, and implementation guidance from threat models and risk assessments.
  • Provide technical and strategic recommendations on policy, standards, acquisition, sustainment, architecture implementation, and technology transitions.
  • Collaborate with government officials, program leaders, engineers, operators, and industry stakeholders and communicate technical findings and risk decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Minimum related experience is 10 years with a bachelor's degree, 8 years with a master's degree, or 5 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Advanced ability to architect secure enterprise solutions and apply zero trust principles to complex nextG systems.
  • Demonstrated expertise in 3GPP, ENISA, and GSMA 5G/nextG standards, architecture, and system design.
  • Experience in 5G/nextG telecommunications, wireless network architecture, telecommunications systems engineering, or related communications technologies.
  • Experience with wireless broadband infrastructure and large-scale or enterprise deployments.
  • Experience applying cybersecurity principles to 5G/nextG networks, architectures, and threat environments.
  • Expertise in network security, identity and access management, application security, data protection, endpoint security, and cloud-hosted systems.
  • Experience developing technical and security reference architectures, standards, design patterns, operational metrics, and reference models.
  • Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, orchestration, SIEM, and security data lake technologies.
  • Ability to adapt AI/ML capabilities to cybersecurity and operational environments and support secure telecommunications deployments.
  • Strong knowledge of attack techniques, cyber threat landscapes, and threat-informed architecture and engineering practices.
  • Strong leadership, collaboration, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
  • Active Top Secret U.S. government security clearance and eligibility to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
  • Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree, relevant professional certifications, security architecture framework experience, threat-modeling experience, U.S. government policy experience, C3 operations or governance experience, SIEM and security data lake implementation experience, and senior-level 5G/nextG technical leadership.

Benefits

  • Onsite work arrangement requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.
  • MITRE states that it provides competitive benefits and meaningful career development; detailed benefits are available through its benefits information.
  • The role requires an active Top Secret clearance and requires the hired candidate to have or obtain Top Secret/SCI clearance within one year of hire.

Salary: $173k - $259k/yr

MITRE

MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defe...

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