Leidos

Cyber Security Engineer

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £47,600 - £61,000 per year

About the role

  • 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 forwarded 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 weaknesses
  • Maintain and support security enforcing functions

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 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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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurity engineeringnetwork securitysystem securityrisk mitigationsecure coding practicesidentity and access managementincident detectionsecurity complianceKubernetes administrationvulnerability assessment
Soft Skills
problem solvingcollaborationcommunicationpolicy developmentprocess design