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Lead Info Sec Engineer

Children's National Hospital
Silver, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 10/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/4/2026
1 Inventa Place Silver Spring, MD 20910

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

10018 IT Security

Pay Range

$156,104.00 - $260,166.40

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. Individuals in this position will have oversight of configuration, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting of such systems in order to validate performance and functional requirements.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in a computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline or equivalent training and work experience (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

10 years 10 years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

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

Functional Accountabilities

Cybersecurity Engineering

  • Leads efforts involving the identification of cybersecurity system performance
  • Oversees the operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems
  • Leads the testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications
  • Leads response actions necessary to recover from system failures
  • Leads the curation of key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.

Salary : $156,104 - $260,166

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