Sr. ISSE TS​/SCI Poly Security Clearance

Position: Sr. ISSE TS/SCI Poly with Security Clearance
Location: Annapolis Junction

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- Description At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices. 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.

Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is ahead. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading! You must have an active TS/SCI Polygraph up front. Unfortunately, no exceptions. Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Security Engineer to join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a fast-paced, complex program!

Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test and production environments. Our team of security engineers support enhancements to system security architecture and cyber security capabilities; manage multiple system security plans for development, test and production systems following the Risk Management Framework (RMF); manage cross domain capabilities; and support Security Verification Testing (SVT) of relevant Type 1 devices.

The contract provides system engineering, development, test, integration and operational support, and is focused on injecting new technology and adding advanced capabilities while continuing to support an on-going operational system. You will provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with exacting interface, performance and security requirements. You will become part of a team of Security Engineers working on providing improvements to our operational, test, integration, and development systems and solving challenging issues on a large, significant program.

The position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. You will have numerous responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities. The strongest candidates will have experience working in these areas:
* Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
* Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
* Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
* Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
* Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
* Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
* Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary, regarding Security issues of significant importance.
* Participating in Program Increment Planning and related agile team activities.  
* Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meets security requirements.
* Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
* Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer specified requirements for processing information.
* Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
* Evaluating, reviewing, and testing critical software.
* Proposing, assessing, coordinating,…