Leidos is hiring: Security Team Lead in Gaithersburg

Description Leidos Dig Mod Health IT division is seeking a Security Team Lead on a large network services opportunity supporting the Health Agency in Montgomery County, MD. This opportunity will support the very important mission of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Information Technology (CIT), which provide enterprise services and infrastructure that seek to achieve service-level performance efficiencies, innovative improvements, optimal performance and risk reductions.We need key personnel hires with a deep knowledge networks expertise and complexity and tech roadmap experience to contribute to the trusted NIH and Leidos partnership. Looking for experience candidates that have the ability to maintain stable operations while delivering innovation, automation, leadership, network security and performance support/metrics, operations and continual improvement to advance the NIH scientific mission.This program consists of network operations, architecture and engineering support, security engineering, change management, special application deliveriesThe Security Team lead will have the responsibility to ensure the adequate security posture for numerous network security tools and applications supporting network security and infrastructure activities. The responsibilities also include the maintenance of the System Security Plan (SSP) is required, the management of cybersecurity governance and risk, security assessment and authorization (A&A) compliance, vulnerability management, security configuration management, delivery of Customer deliverables, creation of Customer briefs for status and regular meetings. The security team lead will interface across the program ensuring support of the technical roadmap interfacing with Network Operations as well as the architecture engineering group.Primary Responsibilities:Provide on-site support to the health agency in MDLead a team of security engineers for delivery of Cybersecurity project management, continuous diagnostics and mitigation, threat mitigation and incident response, security architecture support, critical infrastructure protection, patch management, vulnerability management, risk management, information assurance, penetration testing, cybersecurity services, and Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) documentation.Manage Firewall, Web Filtering, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Network Access Control (NAC), Domain Name Systems (DNS), Remote Access VPN (RA-VPN), Application Delivery/Load Balancing, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Management solutionsLead implementation of new security projects including estimation, design, development, testing and deployment and track status throughoutSupport operations team with cybersecurity guidance for day-to-day operationsPrioritize and assign tasks to the security engineering staffRecommend best business practices and secure methodologies to maintain and/or improve security posture of the information systems within the designated service area to the SAM and system ownersProvide support to service areas with implementing new security policy / procedures / mandates, processes, memos, and guidance (e.g., OMB, NIST 800-37 rev2)Required Qualifications:Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related discipline or equivalent related experienceMinimum of seven (7) years of Network Security experienceActive CCNP or CCIE CertificationMinimum of three (3) years of experience leading a cybersecurity teamMinimum three (3) years of experience supporting SA&A activities for a Federal customerDeep technical understanding of core current cybersecurity technologies as well as emerging capabilitiesDemonstrated understanding of security best practices, security solutions, and methodologies for risk managementDemonstrated understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats, attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)Demonstrated experience working with enterprise firewall, IPS/IDS, DNS, PKI, and remote access VPN solutionsMust be able to obtain a public trust security clearancePreferred Qualifications:Active CISSP certification strongly desiredITIL 4, CCIE, CCNPOperational experience with environments employing cloud or software-defined networkingOperational experience using ScienceLogic SL1Demonstrated experience implementing successful continuous process improvement within an IT infrastructure environmentExperience using ServiceNow Project Portfolio ManagementOriginal Posting Date:2024-11-13While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.