DV Cleared Cyber Security Engineer – On-Site UK

Leidos; Brampton; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Flexi-Time

Job summary

Leidos is recruiting a Cyber Security Engineer to support customer sites in Huntingdon and across the UK, delivering cybersecurity engineering for both classified and unclassified networks.

Role requires DV clearance and hands-on expertise in IAM, network security and Kubernetes, with on-site work and some travel to UK sites. You will contribute to security design, risk mitigation, and incident readiness.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Expertise in identity and access management (IAM), including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and Cookie based authentication.

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 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 weakness.
• Maintain and support security enforcing functions.

Skills

MOD/Home Office experience

Network security

IAM

Kubernetes

Threat detection

Security policy

Tools

Trellix

Ivanti

ClearSwift

Yubikey

Job description

Leidos is recruiting a Cyber Security Engineer to support customer sites in Huntingdon and across the UK, delivering cybersecurity engineering for both classified and unclassified networks.

Role requires DV clearance and hands-on expertise in IAM, network security and Kubernetes, with on-site work and some travel to UK sites. You will contribute to security design, risk mitigation, and incident readiness.