Cyber Security Engineer

4 days ago


Reston, Virginia, United States Leidos Full time

Cyber Security Engineer Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Engineer to join our team at Leidos. The successful candidate will be responsible for protecting our customers' information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks.

The ideal candidate will have an excellent understanding of technology and the ability to utilize Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits.

The Cyber Security Engineer will 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 as well as 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.

Requirements:

  • Expert with at least one of the following 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.
  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
  • Candidate must have a Master's degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience in order to operate within the scope contemplated by the level.

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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