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Leidos

Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.

Cyber Security Engineer

Security EngineerSecurity EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 10,001+Since 1969H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

34 days ago

Salary

£47.6K - £61K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Cyber Security Engineer

Leidos

• Provide cybersecurity engineering services for classified and unclassified networks of computer systems. • Develop creative solutions to complex technical issues and problems • Work with the engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture against baseline requirements • Work with the Security Monitoring engineering team to ensure logs are forward to the SIEM capability • Work with the customer and appropriate agencies to develop new policies, design processes, and procedures, and develop technical designs • Assess system vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation strategies, validate secure systems, and test security products and systems to detect security weakness • Maintain and support security enforcing functions

Job Requirements

  • Experience working in MOD or Home Office project environments
  • Strong knowledge of network and system security, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, micro-segmentation, and host security.
  • Hands on experience with the following security products Trellix, Ivanti, ClearSwift, Yubikey
  • Understanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25).
  • Expertise in identity and access management (IAM), including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and Cookie based authentication.
  • Incident detection and response in MOD environments.
  • Security compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
  • Experience working with Kubernetes at an administrative level

Benefits

  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
  • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
  • Flexible Working Scheme

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