Security Infrastructure Engineer
Security Infrastructure Engineer
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$ 104650 - 189175
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Job Description
As a Security Engineer on our team you will operate and maintain network security infrastructure utilized by a team of cybersecurity analysts in support of 24x7x365 missioncritical operations. This position is 100% onsite.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with government counterparts contractors and internal team members to deploy and manage policies rules and signature sets on cybersecurity capabilities
- Manage highpriority tasks and outages
- Maintain develop and improve Security Infrastructure standard operating procedures and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs)
- Maintain complete and current network and elevation diagrams for all managed security equipment
- Coordinate and comply with applicable change control boards and corresponding processes
- Advise and strategize with government and program leadership on ways to improve the security infrastructure requiring multidimensional problem solving and ingenuity with impact on multiple aspects of the mission
- Provide briefings to program/project leadership government leadership and other internal stakeholders on security infrastructure status updates/patches issues and/or upgrades
- Operate and maintain cybersecurity capabilities to include IDS/IPS/Netflow/SIEM/Snort/Linux/Virtualizationetc
- Ensure Compliance standards
Required Clearance and Certifications:
- Must have an active DoD TS/SCI clearance
- Must have DoD 8570 IAT II or higher certification (Security CE or equivalent) prior to start
- Must obtain a DOD8570 CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 6 months of start
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 8 years of professional experience; additional military service and/or relevant work experience may be considered lieu of a degree
- 2 years of technical experience deploying and maintaining cybersecurity tools especially IDS/IPS capabilities
- Demonstrated experience with configuring maintaining and troubleshooting cybersecurity infrastructure and capabilities.
- Demonstrated knowledge of network traffic and communications including known ports and services.
- Handson experience with the Windows and Linux operating system and their respective command line interfaces and scripting shells
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with automation and orchestration frameworks (ex. Ansible Puppet Chef)
- Deep technical understanding of core current cybersecurity technologies as well as emerging capabilities
- Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats (internal and external) attacks attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set TTPs
- Motivated selfstarter with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic findings
- Familiarity or experience in Intelligence Driven Defense Cyber Kill Chain methodology and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Prior handson experience as a SOC analyst
About our Program:
Through the J6 Penetration Handling Incident System Health (PHISH) support services task order on the GSMO contract we provide IT products services and solutions to the Pentagon and other DoD offices and agencies for them to meet mission and business requirements. Our Cybersecurity team performs cyber defensive actions in support of J6 to prevent detect respond and recover from adversarial activities.
Original Posting:
May 9 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $104650.00 $189175.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Employment Type
Full-Time
