# Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Alexandria, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to support the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) CyberPRIMES program. The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst will perform enterprise-level cybersecurity analysis to identify vulnerabilities, configuration weaknesses, compliance issues, and emerging risks across the DHRA environment.

**Mission Environment**

- DMDC supports the Defense Human Resources Activity within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD(P&R)).

- The DHRA Information Technology (IT) environment includes approximately 15,000 network and endpoint devices supporting more than 600 Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) applications and approximately 100 Risk Management Framework (RMF) authorization boundaries managed through the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS).

- The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst will work across this environment to turn cybersecurity monitoring, vulnerability, compliance, threat, and assessment data into an enterprise view of cyber risk.

**Primary Tasks**

- Perform comprehensive cybersecurity analysis supporting the management and continued maturation of the DHRA cybersecurity program.

- Correlate and analyze cybersecurity data from vulnerability scanners, intrusion detection systems, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, red-team assessments, and other Government-provided cybersecurity tools.

- Identify vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations, control deficiencies, and deviations from approved security baselines.

- Evaluate cybersecurity findings based on severity, exploitability, exposure, and potential mission impact.

- Analyze multiple sources of cybersecurity data to identify recurring issues, systemic weaknesses, risk trends, and conditions requiring enterprise-level attention.

- Incorporate Department of Defense, DHRA, Government, and open-source threat information into assessments of the enterprise cybersecurity risk posture.

- Assess the relationship between identified technical vulnerabilities and relevant threat activity to improve prioritization of remediation efforts.

- Develop actionable recommendations for vulnerability mitigation, risk reduction, cybersecurity compliance, and security-posture improvement.

- Develop and support the monthly DHRA Cybersecurity Risk Reduction and Compliance Report.

- Support cybersecurity scanning, mitigation, compliance analysis, and assessment of adherence to Government cybersecurity standards and requirements.

- Evaluate cybersecurity products, capabilities, configurations, and technical approaches as required to support enterprise risk-reduction activities.

- Perform senior-level troubleshooting and analysis of complex cybersecurity issues.

- Review technical findings and supporting evidence to ensure cybersecurity risks and compliance issues are accurately characterized.

- Support development of technical briefings, analytical products, and recommendations for Government cybersecurity and program leadership.

- Track significant cybersecurity findings and risk-reduction recommendations.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 10 or more years of relevant cybersecurity experience.

- Significant experience performing cybersecurity analysis, information assurance, vulnerability analysis, cybersecurity compliance, or enterprise risk assessment.

- Experience correlating information from multiple cybersecurity data sources.

- Experience analyzing vulnerability-scanning results, intrusion-detection information, SIEM data, security-assessment findings.

- Experience identifying vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations, and deviations from approved security baselines.

- Experience evaluating cybersecurity findings based on technical severity, exploitability, threat information, and mission impact.

- Experience developing risk-reduction, mitigation, and cybersecurity-compliance recommendations.

- Working knowledge of Department of Defense cybersecurity requirements, security standards, and enterprise cybersecurity practices.

- Experience developing technical analysis, recurring cybersecurity reports, executive summaries, or risk-posture assessments.

- Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity risk and technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical Government stakeholders.

- Active Secret security clearance required.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience supporting Department of Defense cybersecurity programs or large Federal enterprise environments.

- Experience conducting enterprise cybersecurity risk and compliance analysis across multiple systems or authorization boundaries.

- Experience integrating vulnerability, threat, security-monitoring, and compliance information into a consolidated assessment of cybersecurity posture.

- Experience developing recurring cybersecurity risk, compliance, vulnerability, or executive-level reporting.

- Experience with enterprise vulnerability-scanning, intrusion-detection, SIEM, and cybersecurity assessment capabilities.

- Experience supporting Tier 3 cybersecurity analysis or troubleshooting.

- Familiarity with the Department of Defense Risk Management Framework and continuous-monitoring processes.

- Experience providing cybersecurity recommendations directly to Government technical or program leadership.

- Familiarity with DHRA, DMDC, or comparable Department of Defense enterprise environments.

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## Skills

### Required
- Cybersecurity
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Engineering
- Vulnerability analysis
- Cybersecurity compliance
- Enterprise risk assessment
- SIEM
- Intrusion detection
- Risk Management Framework

### Nice to have
- Department of Defense cybersecurity programs
- Federal enterprise environments
- Enterprise cybersecurity risk and compliance analysis
- Cybersecurity risk reporting
- Vulnerability scanning
- Tier 3 cybersecurity analysis
- DHRA
- DMDC

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