Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Company: Leidos Inc
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
Description Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is
ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO),
flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, career growth,
unlimited education and training support, parental paid leave and
more! You will have the opportunity to work under the best
leadership in the industry at all levels; where supporting their
employees and what they do... is what matters.Leidos is currently
seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our team of Cyber
Security Engineers / ISSEs supporting our customer's mission
critical systems and networks. The Cyber Security Engineer will
interface daily with multiple system owners, engineers and security
teams. This position is responsible for providing engineering
expertise and guidance for the design, development, and
implementation of IT security solutions that protects and monitors
critical mission networks and systems. The Cyber Security Engineer
will support enhancements to system security architecture and cyber
security capabilities and manage multiple system security plans for
development, test and production systems to support Assessment and
Authorization (A&A) security requirements. The candidate must
have a solid understanding of cyber security and engineering best
practices.Primary Responsibilities: The Cyber Security Engineer is
responsible for researching, evaluating, planning, designing,
engineering, and delivering cybersecurity solutions. This
includes:
- Review and ensure compliance with customer security policies
and requirements.
- Review new and existing system designs for compliance with
security standards and best practices.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and security scans on both
systems and networks to identify and mitigate security
vulnerabilities.
- Remediation and mitigation of identified vulnerabilities by
developing plan of action and milestones (POA&Ms).
- Analyze and mitigate network-related risks.
- Manage and review security logs and taking required
actions.
- Lead system and application architects through security
acceptance testing.
- Provide architectural and technical guidance and
recommendations for securing systems and networks.
- Implement securing and hardening recommendations.
- Implement an information security framework.
- Produce threat reports.
- Document and communicate security policy to enterprise
organizations and gain organization commitment for security
plans.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of
enterprise operations. Ensure new and existing products conform to
information security policies, standards, and best
practices.Required Qualifications:
- Must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for
this role.
- Ability to satisfy a government-administered high-risk role
screening.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Information Security System
Engineering or similar field with 12+ years of experience.
Additional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
- Knowledge of networking environments and related technologies
to include, but not limited to routing, switching, VLANs, subnets,
firewalls, Windows operating systems, LINUX/UNIX-based operating
systems, common networking protocols, and common enterprise
technologies.
- Understanding of IT security principals, technologies, best
practices to include logical access control, PKI and other
encryption methods, network-based and host-based IDS/IPS, security
configuration baselines, auditing, vulnerability discovery, and
management.
- Experience with scanning and elevation tools (Nessus, Retina,
Wireshark, NMAP, etc.).
- Experience successfully implementing advanced cyber security
technologies in a complex environment.
- Experience developing and implementing information security
controls, procedures, and documentation for the operations of
systems.
- Experience accrediting systems following the Risk Management
Framework.
- Experience documenting systems' adherence to NIST Special
Publication 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for Information
Systems and Organizations.
- Experience with ongoing Authorizations and Assessments
(A&A) and continuous monitoring.
- In-depth technical experience with network infrastructure,
operating systems, database, and web applications.
- Demonstrated experience in testing and implementing network
vulnerability and protection.
- Senior-level knowledge of information security concepts, policy
frameworks, and best practices.
- Must be highly organized and self-motivated with excellent
documentation skills and the ability to work with minimal
supervision. Candidate should be able to communicate effectively
with customers and team members at all levels.Desired
Qualifications
- Information Assurance Certifications (i.e., CISSP, CISA, GIAC,
Security +, Certified Ethnical Hacker, etc.)
- CISCO CCNA, CCNP or CCIE certified.
- In-depth knowledge of Linux operating system variants.
- Knowledge of scripting language (Perl and/or Bash).
- Experience with CISCO and Juniper Networks.
- Knowledge of Agile development using SAFe
- Experience using Atlassian tool suite to include JIRA and
Confluence to track activities and knowledge management
documentation.Original Posting Date:2024-03-26While subject to
change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that
this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an
anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original
posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $122,200.00 -
$220,900.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general
guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but
are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos Inc, Reston , Senior Cyber Security Engineer, Engineering , Chantilly, Virginia
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