# Principal Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Linthicum Heights, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Systems Engineer to join our team near Ft. Meade, MD. The successful candidate will participate in the development and evaluation of system engineering documentation, provide technical support for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of complex hardware/software systems, and support the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Perform cybersecurity high assurance evaluation activities, including reviews of security evaluation documents and other high assurance artifacts/documents for devices undergoing certification and assessment

- Attend and participate in relevant security-related meetings and reviews to translate vulnerability knowledge into guidance to prevent and/or manage risk

- Clearly document security deficiencies found in the evaluation of artifacts and documents

- Recommend requirement clarification and process/template improvement to mitigate security concerns

**Qualifications:**

- 20+ years of System Engineering experience

- Bachelor's Degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university

- Information Assurance/Cryptographic experience

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work in a team environment and lead small teams

- Active TS/SCI with Poly Clearance required

**Pay Range:** $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

## Skills

### Required
- System Engineering
- Information Assurance
- Cryptography
- Cybersecurity
- DoD Certification/Accreditation Process

### Nice to have
- Space/Weapon/Ground/Terminal system development
- Space System Engineering

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