# Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Adelphi, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to support the C5ISR Center Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP), a premier defensive cyber operations organisation operating 24x7x365.

As the Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, you will serve as Leidos' primary technical interface to the Government lead for Enterprise Cybersecurity. You will provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, modernisation, and technology integration.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the design, architecture, integration, and implementation of complex enterprise cybersecurity systems and supporting technologies.

- Serving as a senior technical advisor to Government stakeholders and Leidos leadership on enterprise cybersecurity strategy, architecture, risk, and modernisation.

- Assessing organisational progress against cybersecurity strategies and developing recommendations aligned with mission objectives and stakeholder priorities.

- Evaluating emerging cybersecurity technologies and leading feasibility studies, proofs of concept, pilot programs, and technology assessments.

- Assessing enterprise cybersecurity risk, including weaknesses in platforms, access controls, system configurations, networks, applications, and data environments.

- Providing engineering leadership for the design, development, and implementation of solutions that protect and monitor enterprise networks and systems.

- Leading the development and integration of innovative cybersecurity solutions through collaboration with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, Government, and industry experts.

- Identifying security-relevant data, technologies, and capabilities across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments and providing formal technical recommendations to stakeholders.

- Guiding cybersecurity modernisation initiatives, including the migration of services, applications, and data from on-premises environments to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

- Engaging with technology vendors, evaluating solutions, and recommending technologies for enterprise implementation.

- Influencing technical and organisational change by communicating complex cybersecurity concepts, recommendations, and approaches to technical and executive stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have:

- A bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 12+ years of relevant IT/cybersecurity experience.

- 4+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience directly supporting the Federal Government as a Government or contractor employee.

- Extensive experience developing and executing migration strategies for services, applications, or data moving from on-premises environments to hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.

- Strong knowledge and operational experience with Federal cybersecurity requirements and frameworks, including NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP.

- Deep understanding of cybersecurity architecture, technical platforms, threat management, security controls, and industry best practices.

- Experience identifying security-relevant data and technologies across on-premises and cloud environments and developing technical solutions for evolving mission requirements.

- Experience evaluating vendors, designing technical solutions, and selecting cybersecurity technologies for enterprise implementation.

- Broad technical knowledge across enterprise IT, systems engineering, cybersecurity engineering, IT lifecycle methodologies, modernisation, and transformation.

- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and gain support for new technologies, concepts, practices, and approaches.

- Experience leading technical transformation and improving enterprise cybersecurity services and capabilities.

- CISSP certification.

- U.S. citizenship with an active Top Secret clearance and eligibility to obtain a SCI.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams, Government stakeholders, and senior leadership.

We offer a salary range of $131,300.00 - $237,350.00.

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- cloud computing
- NIST
- FISMA
- FedRAMP
- CISSP
- cybersecurity architecture
- threat management
- security controls

### Nice to have
- Agile project management
- Security Operations Center (SOC)
- multi-tenant cybersecurity operations
- CISM
- CISSP-ISSEP
- GSLC
- CCISO

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