Insider Threat Program Chief Engineer

Leidos•Washington, DC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer supporting the HEITS Contract as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Insider Threat Program (ITP). This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to act as the senior technical expert for a team of engineers and architects to support the sustainment, development, and advancement of the ITP cybersecurity infrastructure baseline and provide critical troubleshooting and technical knowledge critical customer systems. The ITP mission is to identify insider threats to the department by utilizing advanced analytics, monitoring, and data correlation which in turn help address and eliminate potential threat actors from compromising the DHS mission in safeguarding the homeland. You will be the Subject Matter Expert on all Engineering tasks and will be responsible for the success of your team and the completion of all assigned tasks. This position is located at the Nebraska Avenue Complex (NAC) in Washington D.C. with the expectation that you will be on site Monday through Friday, from 9am-5pm. Remote work is not authorized. This is not a supervisory position. The selected candidate will act as the senior technical expert helping the program manager/engineering quality analyst oversee the day-to-day tasks of a team of 12-15 individuals consisting of User Activity Monitoring (UAM) Engineers, DBAs, Information Assurance, Network Engineers & Systems Engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10 years of prior relevant experience
Prior experience as an Engineering Lead or Engineering SME
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experienced and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents, analysis, reports etc
Experienced with preparing and presenting briefings to senior customer management, and customer stakeholders
Working knowledge of the ITIL framework and best practices
Working knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, network/HW/SW security architecture, network topology, IT device integrity, and common security elements
Ability to obtain DHS EOD SCI

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in IT Management, Engineering, or related field
Proven experience (12+ years) in IT service delivery management
Previous experience as a Chief Engineering Lead in either DoD, or DHS
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Experience gaining and maintaining ATO for government systems
Experience overseeing a team of engineers
Experience with Oracle Database
Experience with User Activity Monitoring products and platforms
Experience with Everfox High Speed Guard Platform
Experience with Cisco or Juniper Networking Concepts
Experience with On Premise Systems Infrastructure

Responsibilities

Overseeing all engineering activities for the User Activity Monitor Software solution, maintaining the configuration baseline, performing maintenance/updates, troubleshoot performance issues, partner with stakeholders to ensure the complete deployment of the software throughout the enterprise, and eliminate any coverage gaps.
Support the ITP enterprise infrastructure, perform all routine maintenance activities, provide guidance on upgrades and system recapitalization, perform availability/capacity management.
Support all networking requirements and ensure full availability of all network switches and routers.
Oversee High Speed Guard Cross Domain solution that supports the transfer of data between multiple classification domains.
Support all documentation to effectively capture the configuration baseline.
Document hardware and software configuration management processes and procedures
Support performance management to ensure key metrics are tracked and captured reflect the efficacy and performance of the enterprise.
Oversee all information assurance activities to ensure the continued security accreditation of the enterprise.
Provide training as directed by the customer to stakeholders on the usage of the UAM tool and ensure a certification program is in place for personnel development.
Lead engineering response during emergencies, system failures, or critical incidents.
Apply concepts and define and implement hardware and software configuration management processes and procedures, such as creating product build scripts and procedures, and integrate those scripts with the hardware and software build process
Work with other project managers and the program manager to successfully bring projects to completion
Apply knowledge of industry standards and frameworks such as NIST, FISMA, and Common Criteria.
Evaluate, test, and recommend new security technologies and processes to enhance enterprise defenses.
Other duties as assigned.