Leidos Holding
Information Assurance Systems Engineer
Leidos Holding, Odenton, MD
Description
Job Description
The Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Cyber Systems Engineer supporting the Global Solutions Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA's operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA's mission partners.
Candidate must be able to be at the customer site at Fort Meade daily. Minimum Secret clearance and Security + are required upon start. Minimum Secret clearance and Security + are required upon start.
The Information Assurance Systems Engineer is responsible for working within a fast paced, Agile team.This position would support requirements, design, integration, and deployment of new automated capabilities for end users. Specific tasks would include documenting and understanding the as-is processes, developing detailed business process descriptions and performance requirements, and measuring the deployed automation against productivity metrics to demonstrate success. They will be responsible for testing and verification of new capability prior to deployment to production. To accomplish these goals, the successful candidate will demonstrate strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity.
Primary Responsibilities
The successful candidate primary responsibility will:
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Pay Range: Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. 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 here .
Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other person a l information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission .
Commitment to Diversity 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.
Job Description
The Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a Cyber Systems Engineer supporting the Global Solutions Management - Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA's operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA's mission partners.
Candidate must be able to be at the customer site at Fort Meade daily. Minimum Secret clearance and Security + are required upon start. Minimum Secret clearance and Security + are required upon start.
The Information Assurance Systems Engineer is responsible for working within a fast paced, Agile team.This position would support requirements, design, integration, and deployment of new automated capabilities for end users. Specific tasks would include documenting and understanding the as-is processes, developing detailed business process descriptions and performance requirements, and measuring the deployed automation against productivity metrics to demonstrate success. They will be responsible for testing and verification of new capability prior to deployment to production. To accomplish these goals, the successful candidate will demonstrate strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity.
Primary Responsibilities
The successful candidate primary responsibility will:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must.
- Interact with members of the technical team to understand the current system, subsystems, and component specifications.
- Responsible for understanding entire projects or processes spanning multiple technical areas.
- Support risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
- Support and assist in documentation production using various software tools and applying consistent formatting and style throughout documentation.
- Participate in the development, facilitation, and coordination of system documentation such as: System Engineering Plans; Initial Capabilities Documents; Requirements Specifications; and Interface Control Documentation; Assessment and authorization documentation (Body of Evidence) for management and continuous monitoring of information systems.
- Effectively communicates with the customer and internal team members across multiple areas.
- Assist with the implementation of security procedures, and verify information system security requirements, including coordinating the execution, review, and disposition of STIG checklists for systems, applications, developed code and other components.
- Review ACAS and container scans for each system and work with vendor and technical leads to bring findings into remediation; Document detailed Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs) for all open findings.
- Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
- Employing SE approach for systems planning design, execution, and sustainment.
Basic Qualifications
- Requires a US Citizenship.
- Hold and active security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ upon start.
- Bachelor's Degree with 4-8 years of relevant experience or master's with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of work experience in lieu of degree is acceptable.
- Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
- Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
- 3+ years of systems engineering experience.
- Writing software systems engineering documents (SDP, etc.)
- Development software interface documents (IDDs/ICDs)
- Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience with JIRA, Xray, Confluence and Git repo.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
- Candidate to be able to work with strict deadlines with the ability to multi-task and self-assign work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
- NIST RMF Assessment and Authorization (A&A) experience.
- Experience with operating IT security tools, such as ACAS, HBSS, DISA STIGs
- Prior experience working Cybersecurity in accordance with US Government (USG), Department of Defense (DOD)
- Experience with the ServiceNow application.
Preferred Qualifications
- ServiceNow Platforms modules: Discovery, Event Management, Scripting, Service Mapping, Business Rules, Script Includes, Custom applications, Orchestration, Workflows, Service Catalog.
- Strong knowledge of server & network infrastructure and the related configuration items used by ServiceNow platform.
- Experience or familiarity with Agile development and testing methodology.
- Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
- Experience with cloud-based AWS services.
- Experience with cloud-based - specifically AWS - enterprise implementations.
- Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation.
- Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations
- Understanding of ITIL foundation or ITIL certified
- AWS cloud certifications
Pay Range: Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. 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 here .
Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other person a l information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission .
Commitment to Diversity 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.