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Project Manager, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer

Job in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, 22011, USA
Listing for: Leidos
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-18
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 92300 - 166850 USD Yearly USD 92300.00 166850.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Description

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

Unleash Your Potential

At Leidos, we empower our teams and operate sustainably to create an environment where you can thrive. If this sounds like the right setting, keep reading.

The Mission

Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations.

The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

The Project Manager will be leading critical SOC engineering projects including projects such as launching applications into the AWS Cloud, Splunk logging, and SIEM implementation, etc. The Project Engineer will need to work with the customer to prioritize operational issues, engineering activities, and development efforts, and drive the schedule to completion. Other projects will include setting up and guiding a Task Management solution to track Engineering and Program Management initiatives.

The CBP SOC is a new task order, and new customer space; this Project Engineer will help to establish and foster the customer relationship.

Primary Tasks
  • Lead highly visible CBP SOC projects and initiatives to closure
  • Lead key customer briefings and generally assisting the SOC leadership (Government and contractor in execution and strategy)
  • Lead updates to Processes, SOPs, and Best Practices
  • Ensure high quality of all contractual deliverables
  • Facilitate quality comments back to the analysts and leads for the source data to ensure the best data for future analysis
  • Mentor Jr Project Managers as needed
Basic Qualifications
  • Requires a BA/BS or equivalent experience and 8-12+ years or prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10+ years of prior relevant experience.
  • Strong customer interfacing experience
  • Experience with ITIL practices
  • 8-12+ years technical experience with project leadership
  • Experience with Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook
  • Strong written and oral communication with the ability to communicate with team members, management and customers.
  • Clearance:
    In addition to specific security clearance requirements all CBP SOC employees are required to successfully complete a CBP Background Investigation to support this program
Preferred Qualifications
  • PMP Certification
  • Experience in cyber security
  • Previous experience with DHS or CBP customer
  • Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) or Networking Operations
  • Experiencing developing Agile processes
  • Experience Leading a team
  • Experience Architecting a Task Management solution like Remedy or JIRA
  • Experience working with the following technologies
  • Splunk
  • AWS Cloud
  • RSA Archer
  • MS Project/Visio
  • PowerBI
Pay Range

$92,300.00 - $

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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