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We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.\nLocation:\nFuture vacancies could be available in Bristol, Farnborough or Whiteley (Hampshire).\nAre your ready for your next challenge?\nRole Overview:\nCyber Security Engineers are responsible for providing cybersecurity engineering services for classified and unclassified networks of computer systems. The Cyber Security Engineers will provide operational and engineering support.\nTasks will include:\nDevelop creative solutions to complex technical issues and problems\nWork with the engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture against baseline requirements\nWork with the Security Monitoring engineering team to ensure logs are forward to the SIEM capability\nWork with the customer and appropriate agencies to develop new policies, design processes, and procedures, and develop technical designs\nAssess system vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation strategies, validate secure systems, and test security products and systems to detect security weakness\nMaintain and support security enforcing functions\nCore Skills:\nExperience working in MOD or Home Office project environments\nStrong knowledge of network and system security, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, micro-segmentation, and host security.Hands on experience with the following security products Trellix, Ivanti, ClearSwift, Yubikey\n\nUnderstanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25).\nExpertise in identity and access management (IAM), including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and Cookie based authentication.\nIncident detection and response in MOD environments.\nSecurity compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks).\nExperience working with Kubernetes at an administrative level\nSoft Skills:\nStrong leadership and mentoring abilities.\nEffective communication with development, operations, and security teams.\nAbility to advocate for security best practices in a DevOps culture.\nDesirable Skills:\nContainerization Security\nExpertise in Kubernetes security (e.g., RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management).\nKnowledge of container runtime security (e.g., container escapes, rootless containers, sandboxing).\nImage security best practices, including scanning, signing, and provenance verification.\nSecure deployment patterns using Tanzu & Kubernetes.\nRuntime security monitoring.\nDevSecOps & CI/CD Security\nSecure CI/CD pipeline design with security testing using like Git and SonarQube.\nImplementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).\nSecrets management in CI/CD pipelines using Vault or Kubernetes Secrets.\nSecurity automation and policy enforcement using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins.\nCloud & Infrastructure Security\nStrong knowledge of cloud security principles in a containerised environment.\nKubernetes security posture management (KSPM) using tools like Trivy.\nSecure ingress/egress controls, service mesh security (e.g., Istio).\nEncryption strategies for data at rest, in transit, and in use.\nNetwork security best practices for Tanzu container networking (e.g., NSX, Rancher)\nCompliance monitoring and security auditing for cloud-native environments.\nAutomation & Scripting\nScripting skills in Python, PowerShell for security automation.\nAPI security knowledge (e.g., OAuth, JWT, API gateways, rate limiting).\nExperience with Security as Code for automated policy enforcement.\nAre you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today...\nWhat we do for you:\nAt Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.\nWe provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:\nContributory Pension Scheme\nPrivate Medical Insurance\n33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)\nAccess to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)\nFlexible Working Scheme\nCommitment to Diversity:\nWe welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.\nWho We Are:\nLeidos UK & EUROPE - we work to make the world safer, healthier,and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.\nLeidos is agrowing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.\nWhat Makes Us Different:\nPurpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.\nCollaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.\nPeople: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.\nIf 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.\nOriginal Posting:\nFor U.S. Positions: While 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.\nPay Range:\n£47,600.00-£61,000.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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