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Security Engineer Jobs in Remote Work at Leidos
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Looking for an exciting opportunity to make an impact as a Security Engineer?
1901 Group (A Leidos Company) has an exciting Security Engineer position which can be worked from our state-of-the-art Operations Center in Blacksburg, VA or remote. The Security Engineer will work with an elite team of security professionals to manage a DOD customer’s security systems and tools to maintain a secure environment for critical systems with attention on continuous improvement of their security posture.
POSITION SUMMARY:
1901 Group (A Leidos Company) is seeking a Security Engineer who will focus on Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and improvement of security systems and solutions for a customer’s critical systems and networks that supports threat detection, mitigation and remediation and maximizes their security posture to minimize risk / prevent cyber-attacks.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Responsible for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of the DOD customers security infrastructure that includes but is not limited to managing solutions such as host/network access controls, data protection, firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and security scanners.
• Provide security engineering support to develop and maintain a flexible security architecture; provide protection from unauthorized use of, or access to, the customer-managed network and networked assets; and protect all data residing on the network from intrusion, destruction, or compromise.
• Provide technical recommendations and oversight for security system upgrades, technical refreshes, and new builds per requirements set by stakeholders
• Continuously assess the security architecture to identify areas for improvement.
• Ensure security solutions supports requirements for security / threat analysis capabilities and work with security analysts to tune for improved detection and response capability.
• Lead security engineering tasks / project activities. Recommend, design, develop, plan, deploy, integrate, and test enterprise level security applications and tools.
• Work directly with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, customers, and partner organizations, throughout the planning, designing, and deployment of enterprise-level network security applications
• Provide executive level summary briefings, reports and technical deep dives with management.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation and diagrams of the architecture, configuration and processes associated with the environment.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience, additional years of experience will be acceptable in lieu of a degree.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II baseline certification (CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
• Competency designing, implementing and managing security tools and appliances (e.g. SIEM tool – Splunk).
• Experience providing O&M support for customer’s overall security infrastructure.
• Experience as a SME designing, implementing, and configuring security systems and controls
• Experience working independently and collaboratively to troubleshoot and correct operational security issues
• Experience working closely with customers and users to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues
• Knowledge of implementing to DoD security mandates, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Strong communication skills. Ability to document and brief customers to inc…
Title: Security Engineer
Company: Leidos
Location: Remote Work
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