Cyber Security Task Lead

Leidos•Linthicum Heights, MD

About The Position

The Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Cyber Security Task Lead to work in our Linthicum, MD location. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping maintain customer mission security. In this mission we provide comprehensive operational, analytical, technical, forensic, and program management support. Primary Responsibilities. As the Cyber Security Task Lead, you will drive a "security-first" culture by leading enterprise cybersecurity initiatives including education and training. You will facilitate Government and Contractor communications, use industry-best standards and proven methodologies to track and document cybersecurity requirements and activities to allow for continuous monitoring and evaluation by the Government. As the Cybersecurity Task Lead, you will implement and maintain frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, or CMMC to ensure compliance, validate compliance through regular cybersecurity risk assessments and vulnerability testing, coordinate internal and external security audits to validate the effectiveness of controls against current threats, and oversee the selection and management of third-party security vendors to ensure acquisitions meet organizational security standards. To accomplish this, you coordinate tasks among different project teams and manage cross-team dependencies to prevent resource conflicts. In the event of a crisis response, you will lead efforts during major breaches, ensuring timely detection, containment, and recovery.

Requirements

TS/SCI clearance eligible.
Project Management Professional® (PMP) certification.
BA/BS or equivalent experience and 10+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8+ years of prior relevant experience
Minimum of one year of experience in the last three years leading and supervising teams performing work encompassed by the following workforce elements defined in DoDI 8140.01: IT (Cyberspace), Cybersecurity, Software engineering, or Data/AI
Experience in the last five years briefing a CIO and CISO on agency-wide planned, recommended, and directed actions to enable unity of effort and operational effectiveness.
Minimum of two years' experience in the last seven years overseeing personnel receiving, interpreting, planning, briefing, executing, and reporting on orders issued by: Commander of USCYBERCOM or one of their subordinate Commanders, National Manager for National Security Systems, Other authorized Commander with Command authority over CIO-managed systems and personnel.
Minimum of three years' experience in the last ten years leading and supervising teams in a Government and private networking and infrastructure environment (classified and unclassified) similar in scope and complexity to this TO.
Minimum of three years' experience in the last ten years with the building, operating, securing, defending, and extending Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) systems, including wireless components, firewalls, routing and switching, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6), VPN, cloud computing, virtualized servers, storage arrays, and other IT/data systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting cybersecurity at a DoD/DoW or Federal Government Agency/Organization.

Responsibilities

Drive a "security-first" culture by leading enterprise cybersecurity initiatives including education and training.
Facilitate Government and Contractor communications
Use industry-best standards and proven methodologies to track and document cybersecurity requirements and activities to allow for continuous monitoring and evaluation by the Government.
Implement and maintain frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, or CMMC to ensure compliance
Validate compliance through regular cybersecurity risk assessments and vulnerability testing
Coordinate internal and external security audits to validate the effectiveness of controls against current threats
Oversee the selection and management of third-party security vendors to ensure acquisitions meet organizational security standards.
Coordinate tasks among different project teams and manage cross-team dependencies to prevent resource conflicts.
Lead efforts during major breaches, ensuring timely detection, containment, and recovery.