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