# Information Assurance Team Lead

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most.

This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions.

### What to Expect

- Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases

- Full-time on-site presence at a secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures

- Collaborative, Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day one

- Dev platform based on ServiceNow, Elastic, Kafka, AWS, and RedHat

### Responsibilities

- Overseeing the security of information systems, ensuring they are properly secured, maintained, and compliant with established policies, standards, and regulations

- Conducting regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and risk analyses to identify potential threats and weaknesses in the systems and mitigate those risks

- Ensuring systems comply with relevant security frameworks and participating in regular security audits to ensure adherence to compliance standards

- Coordinating the process of certifying and accrediting systems, ensuring they meet all security requirements before deployment

- Monitoring system activity to detect unauthorized access, malware, and other potential security threats, and implementing ongoing improvements to security controls

- Working closely with other teams (IT, legal, compliance, etc.) to integrate security into system development and maintenance processes and ensuring security measures align with business objectives

- Providing coaching and mentoring to IA personnel and conducting performance assessments

- Validating and approving time charging for assigned personnel

### Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 12+ years of prior relevant experience; additional related experience may be considered in lieu of degree

- Experience leading cybersecurity or IA teams

- Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 or higher (Sec+ CE or higher)

- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance

- Ability to pass additional customer suitability screening(s) prior to start

- Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in performing risk assessment, IT audits, security planning, systems accreditation, and policy development

- Experience complying with USG, DoD, and DA regulations and preparing for responding to information security audits and questionnaires

- Understanding of related information technology (e.g., firewalls, VPN, virtualization, DLP, etc.) and physical security assets

- Knowledge of domain structures, user authentication, data encryption, access audits, and end-user security best practices

- Experience with UNIX/LINUX OS and any scripting language

- Experience working with IDS/IPS and processes

## Skills

### Required
- ServiceNow
- Elastic
- Kafka
- AWS
- RedHat
- Security+
- TS/SCI clearance
- DoD 8570 IAT Level 2

### Nice to have
- UNIX/LINUX OS
- scripting language
- IDS/IPS
- risk assessment
- IT audits
- security planning
- systems accreditation
- policy development

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