# Principal Cyber Security Engineer

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

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## Description

As a Principal Cyber Security Engineer, you will join a small team of security engineers providing Information Assurance (IA) Architecture Analysis and Security Engineering Support. You will perform in a consultant-like role providing technical knowledge, expertise, and advice to customers.

The Principal Cyber Security Engineer shall deliver and lead threat-informed cybersecurity products, including:

- 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, refinement, delivery, and implementation of innovative solutions and capabilities

- Engaging stakeholders to ensure security objectives, protection needs, security requirements, and associated validation methods are defined

- Validating and verifying system security requirements definitions and analysis

- Establishing system security design

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

- Assisting architects and systems developers in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality

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

**CLEARANCE REQUIRED**: Active TS/SCI with polygraph.

**Qualifications**

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

- Minimum of 20 years of experience as an Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) or System Engineer

- CISSP - ISSEP required

- Strong writing skills

- Confidence and ability to present briefings to senior-level DoD officials

- Expertise in the 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

- Experience with emerging technologies such as Zero Trust, Cloud Computing, etc.

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

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## Skills

### Required
- CISSP - ISSEP
- Risk Management Framework (RMF)
- cybersecurity risk assessments
- network technology
- systems security engineering
- security monitoring
- incident response
- Zero Trust
- Cloud Computing
- NIST Special Publications 800 Series
- CNSSI 1253
- DoD 8500

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