What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Info Sec Engineer position at Children's National Hospital?
The Senior Information Security Engineer is a hands-on platform owner within the Security Engineering and Automation (SEA) team. This role carries end-to-end accountability for the operational health, integration, and vendor relationship of assigned security and compliance platforms, partners with the business and technical teams that depend on those platforms, and serves as a technical liaison across Information Security when investigations or incidents require coordinated handling.
Essential Functions
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
5 years 5 years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Limited experience 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
Some experience in the implementation of Cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory
Some experience participating in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing
Limited experience with engineering practices related to performing operational tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency
Some experience in performing test measurement and analysis of cybersecurity and IT systems
Preferred Qualifications
Cybersecurity Engineering
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
Maryland-Silver Spring
Work Locations
Inventa Towers
Job
Information Technology
Position Status
R (Regular)
Shift
Day
Work Schedule
9-5
Job Posting
Apr 24, 2026, 10:00:15 PM
Full-Time Salary Range
128452
Essential Functions
- Own operational reliability, configuration, upgrades, integration health, and change governance for assigned security platforms, with documented runbooks and rollback readiness.
- Serve as a technical contact for security platform vendors. Manage support escalations and track case resolution.
- Partner with users who depend on security platforms, translating their requirements into sustainable technical capability.
- Build dashboards, reports, and user enablement to give partner teams the views and capabilities they need to operate efficiently.
- Serve as a technical liaison across Security Operations during investigations or incidents, coordinating evidence handling and handoff between Security Operations teams.
- Integrate platforms with SIEM and SOAR for enrichment, correlation, and case workflow. Maintain posture metrics and report them to partner teams, Security Operations leadership, and the CISO on a defined cadence.
- Work Location. Hybrid: minimum of 2 days per week on-site.
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
5 years 5 years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on engineering and implementation of cybersecurity controls, systems, and applications (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Limited experience 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
Some experience in the implementation of Cybersecurity applications and systems including network devices, firewalls, asset management tools, access management systems, and active directory
Some experience participating in the application of systems engineering principles including requirements definition, system design, test planning and documentation, integration, and functional and operational testing
Limited experience with engineering practices related to performing operational tradeoffs in performance, functionality, cost, and efficiency
Some experience in performing test measurement and analysis of cybersecurity and IT systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare or regulated industry experience with familiarity with HIPAA, HITECH, PCI, SOX, or comparable regulatory frameworks.
- Experience with an insider threat, user behavior analytics, or patient privacy monitoring platforms.
- Certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, or Splunk enterprise security certifications.
Cybersecurity Engineering
- Initiates and executes tasks involving the identification of cybersecurity system performance
- Initiate and shapes tasking involving the operation, monitoring, and analysis of cybersecurity applications and systems
- Coordinates actions involving the testing and deployment of cybersecurity systems including firewalls, network analysis tools, access management systems, and vulnerability management applications
- Coordinates actions necessary to recover from system failures
- Identifies key reporting metrics associated with cybersecurity systems.
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
- Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
- Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
- Partner with all team members to achieve goals
- Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions
- 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
- Use resources efficiently
- Search for less costly ways of doing things
- 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
Maryland-Silver Spring
Work Locations
Inventa Towers
Job
Information Technology
Position Status
R (Regular)
Shift
Day
Work Schedule
9-5
Job Posting
Apr 24, 2026, 10:00:15 PM
Full-Time Salary Range
128452
Salary : $128,452 - $214,087