IT Security SME / EHR Cybersecurity & ATO Lead

Leidos Inc; Virginia; On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave and Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an IT Security SME / EHR Cybersecurity & ATO Lead to support the ICE EHR Program, modernizing clinical operations with a secure, interoperable enterprise EHR across IHSC facilities nationwide.

You will provide cybersecurity expertise, lead security controls, risk assessments, authorization activities, and protect sensitive health information across the system lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Master's degree and 15 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience leading cybersecurity engineering, security controls, vulnerability management, access management, compliance, and authorization activities in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience assessing technical solutions, documenting security evidence, managing remediation, and supporting continuous monitoring.
• Experience providing technical leadership for complex security or systems engineering efforts.

Responsibilities

• Plan and perform research, design assessment, integration, security engineering, and other assignments in cybersecurity.
• Lead implementation, assessment, and sustainment of security controls, access management, vulnerability management, compliance, and authorization activities.
• Assess complex technical solutions for security risk and support remediation, continuous monitoring, evidence development, and security documentation.
• Support protection of sensitive health information and other protected or mission-sensitive data throughout the system lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership for highly complex cybersecurity and engineering areas and coordinate security activities across systems engineering and delivery teams.
• Supervise or provide technical direction to a broad team of systems engineers, as assigned.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security controls

Access management

Vulnerability management

Compliance

Authorization activities

Technical leadership

Education

Master's degree

15 years of relevant experience

Job description

Description

The position supports the ICE EHR Program, whose mission will modernize clinical operations through the implementation of a secure, integrated, and interoperable enterprise EHR supporting healthcare delivery across IHSC facilities nationwide. The program spans the full transformation lifecycle, including solution configuration, systems integration, data migration, cybersecurity, testing, training and change management, deployment, go-live, and ongoing application support and sustainment.

The IT Security SME / EHR Cybersecurity & ATO Lead provides cybersecurity expertise supporting security controls, access management, vulnerability management, compliance, authorization activities, and protection of sensitive health information.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and perform research, design assessment, integration, security engineering, and other assignments in cybersecurity.
• Lead implementation, assessment, and sustainment of security controls, access management, vulnerability management, compliance, and authorization activities.
• Assess complex technical solutions for security risk and support remediation, continuous monitoring, evidence development, and security documentation.
• Support protection of sensitive health information and other protected or mission-sensitive data throughout the system lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership for highly complex cybersecurity and engineering areas and coordinate security activities across systems engineering and delivery teams.
• Supervise or provide technical direction to a broad team of systems engineers, as assigned.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree and 15 years of relevant experience required.
• Education and experience may be substituted for each other, but may not be double-counted. Each year of relevant experience may be substituted for one year of education, and vice versa, consistent with the applicable labor-category equivalency requirements.
• Experience leading cybersecurity engineering, security controls, vulnerability management, access management, compliance, and authorization activities in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience assessing technical solutions, documenting security evidence, managing remediation, and supporting continuous monitoring.
• Experience providing technical leadership for complex security or systems engineering efforts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience securing healthcare systems or environments that process sensitive health information.
• Experience supporting federal security authorization and compliance activities in regulated environments.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave and Retirement

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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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