Cybersecurity Specialist

7 days ago


Reston, Virginia, United States Leidos Full time
Job Summary

Cybersecurity Engineer (SME) at Leidos.

The Cybersecurity Engineer (SME) is responsible for protecting the customer's information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. This role requires an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits.

The Cybersecurity Engineer (SME) must work directly with Team leads, developers, and operations personnel throughout a DevSecOps life cycle, both on policy and technical implementation of technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security measures and tools for the protection of information systems and networks and automate repeatable tasks in a consultative role.
• Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain all security platforms and their associated software, such as firewalls (Security Groups), intrusion detection/intrusion prevention, anti-virus/malware (HBSS), cryptography systems (Vormetric), SIEM (Splunk), and MDM.
• Formulate systems and methodologies and respond to security-related events and assist in remediation efforts of cyber security incidents (system and/or network breaches, malware attacks)
• Participate in the change management process.
• Coordinate and monitor log analysis for our managed services offerings, to ensure customer policy and security requirements are met.

Basic Qualifications

• Expert with at least one of the following security tools: Splunk, HBSS/McAfee, Rapid7.
• Expert with implementing and managing SIEM (e.g., Splunk), end-point security (IDS/IPS and HBSS).
• Expert knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, LAN/WAN concepts.
• Expert with automation (e.g., Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Strong attention to detail with analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Awareness of Cybersecurity trends and hacking techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional security tools and processes such as IDS/IPS, VPN, Webinspect, Appdetective.
• Experience with implementing and managing Network and Application Firewalls.
• Experience with incident detection, incident response, and forensics activities.
• Experience with additional security tools such as App Dynamics.
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Power Shell).
• Experience with Cloud Computing Technologies/Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Agile Software Development.
• AWS Certification.
• Experience maintaining virtual private networks, firewalls, web protocols.
• Experience with SAFe Agile Framework.
• Knowledge of potential attack vectors such as XSS, injection, hijacking, and social engineering.
• Experience with health monitoring tools (Nagios, SolarWinds).

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