# Defensive Cybersecurity Engineer/Incident Response

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.Department Summary: MITRE’s Defensive Cyber Operations department is seeking creative people to work collaboratively with our staff of cybersecurity engineers in the fields of defensive cyber operations, threat hunt, detection engineering, and cyber deception and adversary engagement with increasing emphasis in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support

- **Id**: 4001711
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mitre-defensive-cybersecurity-engineerincident-response>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: McLean, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T03:49:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T03:49:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Incident Response, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 37980
- **Name**: MITRE
- **Domain**: mitre.org
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- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Phenom

## Salary

- **Min**: 158800
- **Max**: 198500
- **Currency**: USD
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- **Usd annual**: 198500

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MITRE ATT&CK** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:49:12Z

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
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- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:53:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 198500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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