Cybersecurity Engineer II

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Description

The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for testing, evaluing, and supporting cybersecurity plforms, tools, and system integrions across the enterprise environment. This role ensures reliable operion, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware and software within distributed network infrastructures.

The engineer will analyze and remedie network vulnerabilities based on security assessments, scan results, and findings provided by internal teams. This position requires close collaborion with cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen the organizion’s overall security posture and ensure the effectiveness of implemented security controls.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Conduct risk assessments, audits, and control validions

• Maintain and upde security documention, policies, and procedures

• Test and evalue cybersecurity tools, plforms, and integrions

• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across distributed network environments

• Support vulnerability management processes, including identificion, analysis, and remediion

Basic Qualificions:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Management of Informion Technology, or a reled field.

• 4-8 years of experience in informion security or reled roles.

• Excellent communicion and multi-tasking skills

• Proactive and ability to work both singularly and in a Team environment.

• Familiarity of networking ports and protocols, architecture of networked and standalone systems, functionality of various opering systems, cloud computing environments and common security tools.

• Ability to digest and comprehend informion system topology diagrams and Concept of Operions documention

• Knowledge with federal standards such as NIST, FISMA and FIPS

• Exposure to Security Control Audits

• Proficient with MS Office

• Active (or held within 3 years) Security Clearance

Preferred Qualificions:

• Relevant certificions (e.g., CompTIA Network+, Security+, CySA+) are a plus.

• Experience with SIEM products such as Splunk, Nessus

• Scripting and automion skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Must be within commute distance to Marshall Spaceflight Center (Huntsville, AL)

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus 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 step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

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

Pay and Benefits

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

Securing Your Da

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-reled informion during any part of the employment applicion 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 communice with you through emails th are genered by the Leidos.com automed system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos th asks for payment-reled informion or any other personal informion (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediely by emailing us LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

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 Non-Discriminion

All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, 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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