[Hiring] Lead Info Sec Engineer @Children’s National Hospital

Role Description

The Lead Information Security Engineer supports the InfoSec mission of securing the patient experience. This position oversees and manages engineering of information security applications and systems to ensure compliance with Children's National Hospital IT standards. Responsibilities for this role include:

• Design, deployment, and optimization of data pipelines feeding into Splunk and other logging and analysis platforms.
• Onboarding new data sources, parsing logs, maintaining data integrity, documentation, and optimizing infrastructure to handle enterprise-scale data volumes while ensuring alignment with security compliance requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Integrate platforms with SIEM and SOAR for enrichment, correlation, and case workflow.
• Maintain posture metrics and report them to partner teams, Security leadership, and the CISO on a defined cadence.
• Own operational reliability, configuration, upgrades, integration health, and change governance for assigned applications and systems, with documented runbook.
• Serve as a technical Lead for vendor communication and tasks related to data ingestion.
• Manage support escalations and track case resolution.
• Partner with internal teams to determine security platform needs, translating their requirements into sustainable technical capability.
• Manage and optimize resources for highest capable performance and security based on CNH compliance requirements.
• Build dashboards, reports, and other documentation, providing leadership with clear insight into resources and current system state.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline or equivalent training and work experience (Required).
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required).

Requirements

• Experience leading in the application of key cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences.
• Experience leading the implementation of Cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory.
• Experience leading in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing.
• Experience leading engineering practices related to performing operational tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency.
• Experience leading performing test measurement and analysis of cybersecurity and IT systems.

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