# Cyber Security Engineer

**Company**: Leidos UK & EUROPE
**Location**: Farnborough, Hampshire
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £47,600.00-£61,000.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Farnborough-Hampshire-UK/Cyber-Security-Engineer_R-00195093?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_aff2f420-30e

## Description

Leidos UK & EUROPE is seeking talented Cyber Security Engineers to join their team. As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will be responsible for providing cybersecurity engineering services for classified and unclassified networks of computer systems. You will provide operational and engineering support.

Responsibilities:

- Develop creative solutions to complex technical issues and problems

- Work with the engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture against baseline requirements

- Work with the Security Monitoring engineering team to ensure logs are forwarded to the SIEM capability

- Work with the customer and appropriate agencies to develop new policies, design processes, and procedures, and develop technical designs

- Assess system vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation strategies, validate secure systems, and test security products and systems to detect security weaknesses

- Maintain and support security enforcing functions

Core Skills:

- Experience working in MOD or Home Office project environments

- Strong knowledge of network and system security, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, micro-segmentation, and host security

- Hands-on experience with security products such as Trellix, Ivanti, ClearSwift, Yubikey

- Understanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25)

- Expertise in identity and access management (IAM), including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and Cookie-based authentication

- Incident detection and response in MOD environments

- Security compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks)

- Experience working with Kubernetes at an administrative level

Soft Skills:

- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities

- Effective communication with development, operations, and security teams

- Ability to advocate for security best practices in a DevOps culture

Desirable Skills:

- Containerization Security

- DevSecOps & CI/CD Security

- Cloud & Infrastructure Security

- Automation & Scripting

Benefits:

- Contributory Pension Scheme

- Private Medical Insurance

- 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

- Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

- Flexible Working Scheme

## Skills

### Required
- network security
- system security
- firewalls
- IDS/IPS
- micro-segmentation
- host security
- Trellix
- Ivanti
- ClearSwift
- Yubikey
- secure coding practices
- OWASP Top 10
- SANS Top 25
- identity and access management
- IAM
- RBAC
- ABAC
- JWT
- Cookie-based authentication
- incident detection and response
- security compliance
- regulatory frameworks
- NIST
- CIS Benchmarks
- Kubernetes

### Nice to have
- containerization security
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD security
- cloud security
- infrastructure security
- automation
- scripting
- Python
- PowerShell

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