Senior Product Security Engineer - Secure DevOps & Apps

Koitecc Solutions; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to support a portfolio of shared software platforms across Ports & Borders and Aviation missions. You will translate customer requirements into practical controls, develop reusable security tooling, and work with software, DevOps, and platform teams to implement secure-by-default solutions.

You will lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, CI/CD security improvements, and vulnerability remediation across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, CE, or related field with 8+ years of experience or a Master's with 6+ years.
• Hands-on product/secure software engineering experience and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience integrating security into SDLC including requirements, architecture, and testing.
• Experience threat modeling, security reviews, and secure design assessments.
• Experience with CI/CD security tooling (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container security) and Linux/Kubernetes security.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on product security engineer for Enterprise products and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Translate policies and requirements into actionable security requirements and backlog items.
• Perform threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, and security reviews of applications, APIs, and data flows.
• Design, integrate, and improve automated security controls within CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Develop and validate hardened configurations for Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and platform services; automate where possible.
• Create and maintain security engineering documentation and evidence for applicable standards.
• Conduct security testing and validation of releases and architecture changes; provide remediation guidance.

Skills

Product security

Threat modeling

DevSecOps

Python scripting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline

Master's degree

Tools

SAST

SCA

Secret scanning

Container scanning

IaC analysis

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to support a portfolio of shared software platforms across Ports & Borders and Aviation missions. You will translate customer requirements into practical controls, develop reusable security tooling, and work with software, DevOps, and platform teams to implement secure-by-default solutions.

You will lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, CI/CD security improvements, and vulnerability remediation across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and