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