# Senior Cyber Security Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: 9479 Undisclosed MD Customer Site
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Cyber Security Engineer, you will join a small team of security engineers providing Information Assurance (IA) Architecture Analysis and Security Engineering Support for the implementation and fielding of the National Leadership Command Capability in support of Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Continuity of Government (COG), and Senior Leader communications.

The Senior Cyber Security Engineer shall deliver and lead threat-informed cybersecurity products – cybersecurity risk assessments, architecture reviews, and engineering guidance that bring sound, accurate, timely, and actionable service to mission partners.

Key responsibilities include:

- Conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and providing prioritized risk mitigation recommendations

- Supporting the design, implementation, and operation of real-time capabilities to discover, detect, analyze, and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities

- Analyzing candidate architectures to identify security gaps and providing recommended mitigation strategies

- Researching and evaluating emerging technologies to determine cybersecurity effectiveness

- Aiding stakeholders through the development and implementation of innovative solutions and capabilities

- Engaging stakeholders to define security objectives, protection needs, and security requirements

- Validating and verifying system security requirements definitions and analysis

- Designing, developing, implementing, and integrating IA and security systems

- Assisting architects and systems developers in implementing information security functionality

- Contributing to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management activities

- Reviewing C&A documentation and providing feedback

Requirements include:

- Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance

- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related field

- Minimum of 14 years of experience as an Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) or System Engineer

- CISSP or CASP certification

- Strong writing skills and ability to present briefings to senior-level DoD officials

- Expertise in Risk Management Framework (RMF) and conducting cybersecurity risk assessments

- Expertise in network technology and systems security engineering

- Experience with security monitoring and incident response capabilities

- Knowledge of NIST Special Publications 800 Series, CNSSI 1253, and DoD 8500

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## Skills

### Required
- CISSP
- CASP
- Risk Management Framework (RMF)
- Network Technology
- Systems Security Engineering
- NIST Special Publications 800 Series
- CNSSI 1253
- DoD 8500
- Zero Trust
- Cloud Computing

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