Cybersecurity Engineer

At Leidos, we help our customers execute programs for the world’s most critical missions. We respond to challenges and deliver next generation of agile, cohesive solutions for today’s rapidly changing environment. Leidos is seeking a broadly experienced Cybersecurity Engineer to join the Defensive Cyber Operations team within our Digital Modernization Sector. 

You will be able to successfully manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects in an effort to support the new engineering projects, technical refresh, new system improvement and modernization activities, and other major changes that occur. The successful candidate will be expected to advise and guide the technical staff in current and new technology and solutions and how they can be applied to both current “as built” configurations as well as integrated into our long-range modernization plan and vision for the program. The Cybersecurity Engineer will be responsible for leading efforts pertaining to the development designs, estimating costs, and executing plans that follow regulatory standards.

Primary Responsibilities
•Develop highly innovative solutions to resolve complex problems involving limited and disparate information through the application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation, and integration of best practices.
•Serve as a technical SME interfacing with Executives, PMs and division leadership to make comprehensive recommendations and develop executable strategies.
•Advise and support engineering requirements of large-scale systems, major elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a complex network with geographically distributed components.
•Communicate and interface with Leidos Program Management, Technical leads and Subject Matter Experts to provide Program status and to jointly present, lead, and work program issues, and technical solutions.
•Ensure that assessment of new performance work requests include all stakeholders, are properly sized, and submitted on time to the customer per the required contractual delivery date.
•Ensure that all authorized performance work requests are completed on time and within budget, the implementation is ready for deployment to customer test organization or production and integrated into the operations and maintenance baseline.
•Understand all applicable performance standards and ensure that all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceed so no monetary disincentive is levied against the contract.
•Provide engineering and technical expertise on all issues, performance work requests, system improvement efforts, and operations and maintenance activities.
•Collaborates with stakeholders, and integrator team members to bring solution options and drive decisions on the way ahead to meet customer needs.
•Establishes and maintains relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and within Leidos to seek, …