Lead Security Engineer with active TS/SCI Poly

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The Mission
The Leidos National Security Sector uses a wide range of capabilities to support our customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world.

This Lead Security Engineer opening is a challenging and rewarding opportunity on a mission-critical program for a seasoned security engineer who likes to be hands on in the technical area. The selected individual will be responsible for leading all security engineering efforts on a large, complex network environment with geographically distributed systems. She/he will lead a diverse team of Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) and Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) personnel and provide technical leadership and direction in support of program requirements. The selected individual will provide mentorship and direction to support sound information systems security engineering concepts and will be heavily involved in testing the system. The candidate will collaborate with other engineers and technical experts to provide improvements to the operational, test, integration, and development systems. Responsibilities also include ensuring authorization to operate (ATOs) for numerous system security plans (SSPs), and compliance with Secure the Enterprise/Secure the Network (STE/STN) requirements.

Primary Responsibilities

·       Responsible for the overall security architecture, ensuring all security related requirements are met.

·       Communicate with multiple system owners across multiple networks regarding the various system and security requirements.

·       Provide subject matter expert (SME) support for the overall security architecture.

·       Set security strategy, including risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and general cybersecurity program support functions.

·       Identify security issues throughout complicated and challenging systems and environments in order to make recommendations to remediate those issues.

·       Develop and implement static and dynamic application security tests and penetration tests.

·       Work with development teams to enrich understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors and remediation approaches.

·       Lead a team of program security engineers in day-to-day activities.

·       Work with program security team to ensure STE/STN and continuous monitoring requirements are being met for Test and Integration, and Development systems.

·       Effectively communicate program requirements and challenges for system compliance with multiple customer points of contact.

·       Coordinate internally with multiple teams for planning and remediation activities.

Basic Qualifications

·       Master's Degree and 15-20 years of relevant experience. Additional years of relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.