Cyber Security Engineer at Leidos
HP4, , United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

10 Oct, 25

Salary

90475.0

Posted On

10 Jul, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Operations, Kubernetes, Security Compliance, Rbac, Mod, Firewalls, Coding Practices, Soft Skills

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

CORE SKILLS

  • 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

SOFT SKILLS

  • Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
  • Effective communication with development, operations, and security teams.
  • Ability to advocate for security best practices in a DevOps culture.
Responsibilities
  • 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 function
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