Chantilly VA
Description
Leidos is currently seeking a Senior Level Cybersecurity Engineer for a position supporting a US Government contract located in Northern Virginia. This candidate will be responsible for building, maintaining, and testing the security of critical computer networks. The ideal candidate would have a solid understanding of cyber security and engineering best practices and be able to manage incident handling, incident analysis, processes/methodologies, the development of best practices, strong understanding of adversary processes/methodologies/TTP to include emerging threats, and the ability to develop signatures and countermeasures.
In the role of Cyber Security Engineer, this person will be responsible for:
- Support the customer in researching, evaluating, planning, designing, engineering, and delivering cybersecurity solutions
- Review and ensure compliance with customer security policies and requirements
- Conduct vulnerability and generic security scans of both systems and networks to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Analyze and mitigate network-related risks
- Review new and existing system designs for compliance with security standards and best practices
- Conduct vulnerability assessments on new and existing systems
- Lead system and application architects through security acceptance testing
- Develop plans for vulnerability mitigation
- Document and communicate security policy to enterprise organizations
- Develop mitigation plans and security implications for vulnerabilities
- Provide architectural and technical guidance and recommendations for securing systems and networks
- Implement securing and hardening recommendations
- Produce threat reports
- Provide information security expertise and consulting
- Implement an information security framework
- Gain organizational commitment for security plans
- Plan, design, and implement security-related technologies
- Ensure new and existing products conform to information security policies, standards, and best practices
- Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of enterprise operations
- Review new and existing system designs for compliance with security standards and best practices
- Conduct vulnerability assessments on new and existing systems
- Lead system and application architects through security acceptance testing
- Develop plans for vulnerability mitigation
- Document and communicate security policy to enterprise organizations
- Cross-train and mentor other staff members as needed
Required Qualifications
- An active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is required;
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security or similar field with 8+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- 8+ years of successfully implementing advanced cyber security technology in a complex environment
- 3+ years’ experience with CISCO and Juniper Networks
- Understanding of networking environments and related Technologies (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
- Ability to work independently to identify errors, pinpoint root causes, and devise solutions with minimal oversight;
- Extensive in-depth technical experience with network infrastructure, operating systems, database, and web applications
- Experience with scanning and elevation tools (Nessus, Retina, Wireshark, NMAP, etc.); and,
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of networking environment to include networking technologies (routing, switching, VLANs, subnets, firewalls); TCO/IP stack’ Windows operating systems; LINUX/UNIX-based operating systems; common networking protocols; and common enterprise technologies
- Demonstrated experience in testing and implementing network vulnerability and protection
- Senior-level knowledge of information security concepts, policy frameworks, and best practices
- Information Assurance Certifications (i.e. CISSP, CISA, GIAC, Security +, Certified Ethnical Hacker, etc.)
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; and,
- Knowledge of scripting language (Perl and/or Bash).
- Knowledge of Agile development using SAFe
- Experience using Jira
Pay Range:
Pay Range $97,500.00 – $176,250.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.
Leidos / Equal Opportunity Employer
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Top Secret with Polygraph Required, CLZTS, CLZCI, SKINT, SKCYB, JBLDG – VA_CHANTILLY VA_VIRGINIA ZC20152
