Security Lead

Description

Job Description:

The Leidos Public Health Portfolio is seeking a Security Lead in Atlanta, GA to support a federal program that will assist the customer in modernizing their security architecture, data management infrastructure, processes, and personnel skills.

contingent upon contract award

The ideal candidate must be a strong leader with solid understanding of cybersecurity and engineering, energetic and self-motivated, able to guide and mentor technical professionals, and with a value-driven and customer-centric mindset. This role provides management and direction in a complex multi-agency Government environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

Direct teams in delivering:

• Design, implementation, and delivery services to strengthen CDC’s security posture, following and extending the practice of zero trust necessary for CDC’s journey to a scalable zero trust architecture.
• Apply the full range of Information Assurance (IA) policies, principles, and techniques to maintain security integrity of information systems processing sensitive or classified information….
• Provide technical assistance for onboarding State, Territorial, Local, Tribal (STLTs) public health (PH) departments to the PH ecosystem.
• Ensure compliance with applicable NIST 800 series, HIPAA, HHS/Federal Data Security and Privacy guidelines.
• Maintain knowledge of new and emerging cybersecurity and privacy technologies and standards.
• Obtain and maintain Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) to authorize operation of an information system or a service and to explicitly accept the residual risk of an agreed-upon set of security controls, and the results of continuous security assessment.
• Support enhanced privacy awareness, including information system and third-party website content reviews and updates, IT system Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and analysis, and other compliance requirements.
• Serve in a position of leadership over critical objectives where decision making is of utmost concern to the outcome.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or a master’s degree and 10 years of prior relevant experience with federal agencies.
• CISSP certification
• Experience with the selection of cloud security tools and controls, determining where security controls should be deployed, define design principles that will govern cloud security decisions, lead threat modeling exercises, and create and maintains information system security documentation.
• Experience planning and managing complex cloud network communication and security environment.
• Ability to develop scalable identity, authorization, access and management platforms and services and integrate these services with DevSecOps processes.
• Knowledge of identity management practices and implementation of authentication and authorization controls for secure APIs using security standards.
• Experience with conducting automated vulnerability scanning and secure configuration compliance scanning of on-premises and cloud hosted systems.
• Knowledge of information security risk management protocols and processes, including audits of agency IT assets for possible security risks and compliance with cybersecurity standards and policies.
• Experience with IAM services such as Key Vault/Encryption Management, Cloud services, Azure Virtual Desktop, Authentication services, Account Management, and Zero Trust Data Protections.
• Must have the ability to use sound judgment in problem solving and must possess excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Must have the ability to coordinate activities at multiple sites and resolve complex issues across multiple sites, both pre-planned and last minute.
• Must have the ability to successfully manage multiple significant issues and tasks simultaneously, and must be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Must have the ability to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and pro-actively take initiative when issues arise.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CISM or CCSP certification
• SAFe.
• Experience with CDC/Public Health
• Atlanta metropolitan area located.

Security Clearance requirement:

Ability to acquire NACI/Public Trust clearance

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Pay Range:

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® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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