Senior Security Engineer in Washington

Energy Jobline ZR; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to act as the technical lead for daily security operations across enterprise and isolated environments. You will mentor security personnel, set priorities and coordinate activities with infrastructure and engineering teams to maintain a strong security posture.

This is a 100% on-site role at the customer site, requiring hands-on engineering and collaboration with ISSM, leadership, and technical teams to translate security requirements into actionable

Qualifications

• Experience leading security operations teams.
• Proven ability to manage vulnerabilities end-to-end.
• Knowledge of RMF/ATO processes and continuous monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day security operations and assign activities across the team.
• Provide technical leadership to security personnel and engineers.
• Lead vulnerability management from ID to closure, including remediation and validation.
• Coordinate remediation across Windows, Linux, network and desk-side teams.
• Oversee vulnerability scanning and analysis using ACAS, Nessus or equivalent.

Skills

Security leadership

Security operations

Vulnerability management

RMF/ATO

Continuous monitoring

Tools

ACAS

Tenable Nessus

Job description

Job Description

Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to serve as the technical lead for day-to-day security activities supporting enterprise and isolated environments. This position will provide technical leadership and oversight for security operations, vulnerability management, RMF/ATO support and continuous monitoring activities.

The individual will lead and mentor security personnel, establish priorities and coordinate security activities across infrastructure and engineering teams. This is a hands-on technical lead position, and the individual will be expected to directly support security engineering and operational security activities as needed.

The individual will work closely with the ISSM, customer, program leadership and technical teams to translate security requirements into actionable work and maintain the overall security posture of the environment.

This is a 100% on-site position. All work must be performed at the customer site.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day security operations, establish priorities and assign and track activities across the security team.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to security personnel, system administrators, engineers and other technical teams.
• Lead vulnerability management from identification through closure, including analysis, prioritization, remediation, validation and documentation.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation across Windows, Linux, network, desktop support and other engineering teams and provide hands-on support for complex or high-priority issues as needed.
• Oversee and perform vulnerability scanning and analysis using ACAS, Tenable/Nessus or equivalent technologies