Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer Security Clearance Required - DV ('Developed Vetting')

Location:

Huntingdon, UK (On-site 4/5 days a week) UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL 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 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. Are your ready for your next challenge? We are in search for multiple Cyber Security Engineers with varying technical backgrounds - Required to work at our customer site in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire with occasional travel to other UK sites. In this role, you will working within a team of engineers to ensure that the customer sites maintain a strong cyber security posture.

Cyber Security Engineers are responsible for providing cybersecurity engineering services for classified and unclassified networks of computer systems. The Cyber Security Engineers will provide operational and engineering support. This position perform the following tasks:
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 functions 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, Clear Swift, 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 Dev Ops culture. Desirable Skills Containerization Security Expertise in Kubernetes security (e.g., RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management). Knowledge of container runtime security (e.g., container escapes, rootless containers, sandboxing). Image security best practices, including scanning, signing, and provenance verification. Secure deployment patterns using Tanzu & Kubernetes.

Runtime security monitoring. Dev Sec Ops  & CI/CD Security Secure CI/CD pipeline design with security testing using like Git and Sonar Qube. Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). Secrets management in CI/CD pipelines using Vault or Kubernetes Secrets. Security automation and policy enforcement using tools like Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI and Jenkins. Cloud & Infrastructure Security Strong knowledge of cloud security principles in a containerised environment.

Kubernetes security posture management (KSPM) using tools like Trivy. Secure ingress/egress controls, service mesh security…