Your north star: design, build, configure, integrate, deploy, and maintain the systems and tools needed to defend Children's National and our patients, families, and staff against cyber attacks.

Position summary

The Sr. Information Security Engineer will protect Children's National by continually reviewing our security posture, identifying gaps and enhancements to close those gaps. We are seeking a dynamic engineer who excels at taking ownership over challenges and implementing novel solutions. She or he is a doer who is equally comfortable overseeing partners, mentoring junior staff, influencing colleagues, and rolling up his/her sleeves and executing.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree in a computer science, math, engineering or another relevant discipline (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

5 years experience in cybersecurity with a focus on architecture or engineering (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

Knowledge of relevant security technologies and architectural best practices

Experience selecting, deploying, integrating, and tuning a wide array of security technologies and solutions, preferably in a healthcare organization

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

Familiarity with architectural solutions to meet compliance requirements, including but not limited to: Sarbanes-Oxley, payment card industry standards, HIPAA/HITECH, global data privacy requirements, as well as state and federal regulations

Functional Accountabilities

Core areas of responsibility that fall under this role include:

Analyzing attack vectors and developing solutions for emerging threats
Managing the trade-offs between adding tools to the security technology stack and improving the tuning and configuration of existing tools
Owning the cybersecurity implementation projects and identifying requirements needed to meet our security and risk management objectives
Staying abreast of emerging security technologies and integrating them into security architecture as needed
Tracking current and emerging security threats and designing security solutions to mitigate them
Ensuring alignment between security architecture frameworks and standards and overall business strategy
Coordinating with business units, and across other stakeholders (including technology, legal, risk, compliance, and privacy, and ecosystem partners) to assess, implement, integrate, and tune security technologies
Buy v. build and benefit cost analysis

To be successful in this role you will need to be:

A team player who excels at supporting colleagues and focusing on shared results
An innovator who knows what it takes to execute and has a history of setting and meeting ambitions goals
A highly dependable “doer” who can work with little supervision while being resilient to change
A good listener who can check your ego at the door, allowing you to receive and provide candid feedback and criticism
Kind
An individual of high personal integrity who is able to act calmly in high-pressure and high-stress situations

Organizational Accountabilities

Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)

Organizational Commitment/Identification

Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Teamwork/Communication

Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
Partner with all team members to achieve goals
Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

Contribute to a positive work environment
Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

Use resources efficiently
Search for less costly ways of doing things

Safety

Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance

Primary Location

Maryland-Silver Spring

Work Locations

Inventa Towers

Job

Information Technology

Organization

Operations

Position Status

R (Regular)

Shift

Day

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday

Job Posting

Oct 4, 2023, 1:31:37 AM

Full-Time Salary Range

101275.2

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