Security Engineer

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Bethesda, MD, United States
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
$131,300.0 - $237,350.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Software System Penetration Testing Systems Engineering User Authentication Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Configuration Management Signals Intelligence CompTIA Security+
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Cyber Security Information Systems Continuous Integration Linux Digital Forensics Firmware Monitoring of Systems Identity and Access Management Integrated Development Environments Networking Hardware Intrusion Detection and Prevention Information Systems Security Architecture Professional JavaScript Libraries Python (Programming Language) Key Management Network Security Network Layer Network Architecture Network Protocols Windows PowerShell Release Management Ansible Red Team (Cyber Security) Reverse Engineering Secure Coding Security Information and Event Management Software Deployment Software Engineering SonarQube Software Vulnerability Management Network Routing Scripting Google Cloud Enterprise Software Applications Computer Network Operations ReactJS Large Language Models Cyber Threat Analysis Firewalls (Computer Science) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Gitlab Cloudformation Containerization Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Information Technology Production Code Nessus Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Splunk Devsecops Api Management Docker Jenkins Plan of Action and Milestones Vulnerability Analysis Programming Languages

Job description

CI/CD Gitlab Writing Ansible Tooling On Prem Jenkins Auditing Research Ideation Equities Scripting Terraform Hardening Pipelines Operations Management Automation Kubernetes Market Data AI Security Supply Chain Cryptography Law Enforcement Threat Modeling Production Code Ancient History Containerization Threat Detection Operating Systems Docker (Software) Network Protocols Release Management Workflow Management Penetration Testing Evidence Collection GIAC Certifications Security Engineering Software Engineering Software Development Cloud Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Development Environment Infrastructure Security Research And Development Internet Of Things (IoT) Vulnerability Management Computer Network Operations Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Python (Programming Language) GIAC Certified Incident Handler Plan Of Action And Milestones (POA&M) Application Programming Interface (API) Offensive Security Certified Professional Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) Certified Information Systems Security Professional, We are looking for a Security Engineer to own the security posture of the environments where we build, test, and deliver advanced AI-cyber capabilities. You will be embedded with software engineers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers, hardening the infrastructure, supply chains and pipelines on while guiding their secure development.

The work includes guiding and reviewing build integrity and supply chain review to threat modeling our own tooling. If you have ever looked at a supply chain & development environment and immediately started listing the ways you would secure it, this is the job. You will be the person the team trusts to tell them when something is a real risk and when it is just noise

As an AI Security Integration Engineer on our team, you will bridge the gap between traditional security infrastructure and modern programmatic defense. You will guide the secure development and evolution of software vulnerability tooling. Your primary focus will be working with the development team to maintainmaintaining the tool security posture utilizing continuous ATO. review workflows and pipelines by leveraging Python, assessing robust API integrations, maintained exploring AI/LLM orchestration to rapidly scale threat detection and response capabilities. Support ATO and continuous vuln management., CI/CD Splunk Nessus Rapid7 Ansible Auditing Firewall Equities Scripting SonarQube DevSecOps Pipelines Operations Automation Purchasing Upskilling Market Data Coordinating Oracle Cloud Cryptography Investigation Cyber Security Key Management Risk Management Authentications Cloud Computing Ancient History Network Security Security Controls Incident Response CompTIA Security+ Digital Forensics System Monitoring Endpoint Security Cyber Engineering Analytical Method Windows PowerShell AWS CloudFormation Systems Engineering Amazon Web Services Time Off Management Security Engineering Software Development Contingency Planning Signals Intelligence Programming Languages Regulatory Frameworks Vulnerability Scanning Security Configuration Cyber Security Policies Configuration Management Vulnerability Management Certified Ethical Hacker Cyber Security Standards Cybersecurity Compliance Risk Management Framework Authorization (Computing) Cyber Threat Intelligence Cyber Security Assessment IT Security Documentation Agile Software Development Splunk Enterprise Security Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Computer Network Operations Change Management Processes Information Systems Security Customer Information Systems React.js (Javascript Library) Python (Programming Language) Enterprise Application Software Endpoint Detection And Response Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) Host Based Security System (HBSS) Intrusion Detection And Prevention CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Plan Of Action And Milestones (POA&M) Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) Certified Information Systems Security Professional Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI Clearance) +0 Information Systems Security Engineer Leidos

Linthicum, MD*On-Site

Planning Firewall Firmware Equities Mitigation CNSSI 1253 Market Data Gap Analysis Risk Analysis Risk Management Network Routing Ancient History Computer Science Security Systems Operating Systems Security Policies Network Protocols Information Privacy Networking Hardware Network Engineering Network Architecture Information Assurance Communications Systems Information Systems Security Security Requirements Analysis Certified Information Systems Security Professional Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI Clearance) +0

Google IT Support Senior Security Engineer Leidos

Columbia, MD*On-Site

Linux CI/CD Gitlab Writing Ansible Tooling On Prem Jenkins Auditing Research Ideation Equities Scripting Terraform Hardening Pipelines Operations Management Automation Kubernetes Market Data AI Security Supply Chain Cryptography Law Enforcement Threat Modeling Production Code Ancient History Containerization Threat Detection Operating Systems Docker (Software) Network Protocols Release Management Workflow Management Penetration Testing Evidence Collection GIAC Certifications Security Engineering Software Engineering Software Development Cloud Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Development Environment Infrastructure Security Research And Development Internet Of Things (IoT) Vulnerability Management Computer Network Operations Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Python (Programming Language) GIAC Certified Incident Handler Plan Of Action And Milestones (POA&M) Application Programming Interface (API) Offensive Security Certified Professional Security Information And Event Management (SIEM) Certified Information Systems Security Professional +0

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional experience in security engineering, secure software development, or infrastructure security.
  • Experience securing and using agentic tooling for writing and maintaining production code, managing cloud infrastructure, and release management frameworks.
  • Experience owning security outcomes for a technical product from ideation to production, and influencing engineering teams toward secure design without direct authority.
  • Experience hardening software deployments, networks, and production infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience securing software clusters for online/cloud as well as on-prem or air-gapped installations.
  • Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability management, and secure development practices across first- and third-party code.
  • Familiarity with NIST RMF, continuous ATO, and control automation., * 15+ years Hands-on experience securing and hardening Linux systems at the OS and network layer
  • Expertise in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
  • Working knowledge of network protocols, cryptographic fundamentals, and key management
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization (Ansible/Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Experience administering or securing a CI/CD system (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar), * Experience working in accredited/classified environments, including cross-domain solutions
  • Offensive security background - penetration testing, red team, or serious CTF experience
  • Detection engineering or SIEM experience
  • Experience with embedded, real-time, or otherwise constrained platforms
  • Exposure to reverse engineering or vulnerability research
  • Relevant certifications (CISSP, OSCP, GCIH) - useful, not required
  • Non-human/agent identity and secrets management - short-lived credentials, scoping, and audit for autonomous actors, which is a genuinely different problem than human IAM.
  • Sandboxing and egress control for code-executing agents.
  • Familiarity with NIST AI RMF and the fact that continuous-ATO control automation now has to cover AI system controls, not just traditional ones.
  • Using LLMs to accelerate the compliance grind control narrative drafting, evidence collection, POA&M triage.

Benefits & conditions

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 at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

About the company

Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities., If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status 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 at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .

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