DV-Cleared Cyber Security Engineer – On-Site UK

Leidos LLC; Huntingdon; 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 seeking Cyber Security Engineers with DV (Developed Vetting) clearance for on-site work at our Huntingdon, UK customer site. The role requires work at client sites in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, with occasional travel to other UK sites.

You will join a team of engineers ensuring strong cyber security posture across classified and unclassified networks, delivering operational and engineering support.

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.
• Hands on experience with security products Trellix, Ivanti, ClearSwift, Yubikey.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25).
• Expertise in IAM including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and cookie-based authentication.
• Incident detection and response in MOD environments.
• Security compliance and regulatory frameworks (NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
• Experience working with Kubernetes at an administrative level.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative solutions to complex technical issues and problems.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture.
• Work with the Security Monitoring team to ensure logs are forwarded to the SIEM capability.
• Collaborate with customer and agencies to develop policies, processes and technical designs.
• Assess vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation, validate secure systems and test security products.
• Maintain and support security enforcing functions.

Skills

MOD/Home Office experience

Network security

IAM (RBAC/ABAC/JWT)

Kubernetes admin

Security compliance (NIST/CIS)

Incident detection & response

Security tooling (Trellix/Ivanti/Clear

Tools

Trellix

Ivanti

ClearSwift

Yubikey

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos is seeking Cyber Security Engineers with DV (Developed Vetting) clearance for on-site work at our Huntingdon, UK customer site. The role requires work at client sites in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, with occasional travel to other UK sites.

You will join a team of engineers ensuring strong cyber security posture across classified and unclassified networks, delivering operational and engineering support.