# Principal Cyber Security Engineer

As a Principal Cyber Security Engineer you will join a small team of security engineers providing Information Assurance (IA) Architecture Analysis and Security Engineering Support for the implementation and fielding of the National Leadership Command Capability in support of Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Continuity of Government (COG), and Senior Leader communications. The ISSE will perform in a consultant like role providing technical knowledge, expertise and advice to our customer. Primary Responsibilities: The Principal Cyber Security Engineer shall deliver and lead threat-informed cybersecurity products - cybersecurity risk assessments, architecture reviews, and engineering guidance that bring sound, accurate, timely, and actionable service to mission partners: This includes: Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments and provide prioritized risk mitigation recommendations in support of the customer’s mission. Support the design, implementation, and operation of real-time capabilities to discover, detect, analyze, and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities. Analyze candidate architectures by evaluating against defined security requirements to identify security g

- **Id**: 3840130
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leidos-principal-cyber-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Linthicum Heights, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 20
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T06:19:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5018
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, National Security, C4ISR, Information Security

## Company

- **Id**: 7791
- **Name**: Leidos
- **Domain**: leidos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leidos>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 310
- **Ghost share**: 0.003
- **Stale share**: 0.881
- **Repost share**: 0.013
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 154050
- **Max**: 278475
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 278475

## Technologies

- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 20
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:22:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 50 · green card filings: 24; Filings 12m: 50

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 278475
- **Is top pay**: yes

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