# Senior Cyber Security Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Farnborough
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer (T4) to join our team at our Farnborough site and work remotely. As a trusted security practitioner, you will work with minimal direction on a critical programme and help raise the security bar across engineering and operations.

**Main Objectives:**

- Vulnerability Management, Reporting & Risk Prioritisation: Perform regular vulnerability assessments and generate actionable reporting using approved toolsets.

- Endpoint, Identity & Cloud Security Engineering (AWS): Design and assure cloud security controls across networking, identity, logging/monitoring, and configuration management.

- Incident Response Leadership & Operational Security: Lead or provide senior support to containment, eradication, investigation, and recovery activities.

- Secure Configuration, Hardening & Compliance Assurance: Ensure security toolsets are kept up to date with patches and software updates.

- Security Design Review, Change Impact Assessment & ST&V: Lead or support evaluation and impact assessment of proposed changes to security posture.

- Stakeholder Engagement, Governance & Decision Support: Provide clear security advice, risk-based recommendations, and decision support.

- Documentation, Mentoring & Continuous Improvement: Create, maintain, and review high-quality documentation and security evidence.

**Essential Experience:**

- Proven experience in a senior cyber security engineering role, delivering security outcomes across complex IT environments (on-prem and/or cloud).

- Practical experience implementing security as code and policy as code in AWS environments.

- Strong knowledge of secure configuration and hardening practices.

- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management and risk-based prioritisation.

- Experience supporting or leading incident response activities.

- Ability to communicate technical security issues clearly to non-specialists.

- Experience producing high-quality security documentation and evidence suitable for audit/assurance.

- AWS security-related certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security – Specialty) or equivalent cloud security experience.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Cloud Security
- Cyber Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Incident Response
- Security Engineering

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- CISM
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty

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