Cyber Security Engineer

At Leidos, we deliver practical solutions to the Federal Government’s most complex IT engineering problems. And, as a Prime Systems Integrator, these are often on a scale and variety rarely seen by other organisations. Whether developing and supporting technology transformation projects for the Bureau of Meteorology, providing software applications for critical Defence missions, or improving the way the ATO supports its service delivery, our work has a direct impact on the lives of Australians, and will certainly impact on your career.

Your New Role

Leidos has been engaged by Defence to provide a leading cyber security capability for the environments that our deployed military personnel rely on. The team develops and delivers key cyber security services to directly support the Department’s mission. We are seeking highly motivated and appropriately experienced staff to help us deliver outstanding results. This role is an exciting opportunity to perform crucial high value work to support and protect our personnel in the Australian Defence Forces.

This is a rare opportunity for driven and focused people to “Get Cybersecurity Right”. This engagement is still maturing and there is real scope for the right individual to put their stamp on how Cybersecurity is done within the engagement, the end goal is a leading edge Cybersecurity capability that is the envy of others and we need the right people to get there.

Our cyber engineering roles include support of the security function for our customer ensuring systems are available, appropriately maintained and secured. This role allows you to utilise your broad experience in a supportive team environment.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Assist in the management and support of the security tooling our Deployed ADF personnel rely on;
• Perform troubleshooting in support of the ADF or our Security Operations Centre, such as why logs aren’t shipping from point A to point B;
• Assist with vulnerability management including config reviews and software versions;
• Assist with incident investigation including obtaining logs, reviewing firewall rules, etc;
• Assist with monitoring the network for changes that may affect cyber security;
• Be cross trained into supporting cyber security tools such as SIEMs, firewalls, proxies, sandboxes, mail gateways, and end point security;
• Integration and functional testing; and
• Work with other teams to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple networks.

About You and What You'll Bring

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will bring your knowledge and expertise to support the team. You will be customer-focused, and enjoy working as part of a team.

We have a number of open roles from junior to mid-level. Our list of desired technologies is lengthy, however we don't expect you to bring all of the below to the table. We offer cross training across the entire tool suite for the right candidates.

You will have the following skills/knowledge:

• 1-2 years in enterprise IT system administration;
• Knowledge of how a typical Enterprise IT system fits together
• Intermediate troubleshooting skills in complex networks
• Working knowledge in cybersecurity principles such as hardening standards and techniques
• Working knowledge of Windows operating systems

Ideally you will have experience in a few of the following:

• Worked with SOC operational teams to support evidence gathering
• Working knowledge of operating systems such as Linux
• Working knowledge of:
  • Splunk
  • McAfee ePO
  • Tenable.SC
  • Cisco ASAs
  • Bluecoat ProxySG,
  • Forescout
  • Elastic SIEM
  • Fortinet
  • Carbon Black Response or similar EDR tools
  • Carbon Black App Control or similar whitelisting tools
  • Fortigate firewalls
  • Fortimail
  • Fortiauthenticator
  • FortiNAC
  • Fortisandbox
  • Forticlient
  • Fortianalyser
  • Nutanix Flow
  • Ivanti Device Control

You will have the following attributes:

• Comfortable working in cross team environments;
• Comfortable interacting with a mixture of highly technical peers and partners as well as military staff;
• Willing to learn new technologies in the cyber security space; and
• Willing to go the extra mile to ensure customer mission needs are met.

Please note, this role will operate as part of a 24/7 SOC and successful candidates will need to be willing to work shift work on-site in Canberra.

If you want the following as part of your next role, please get in touch today.

• Important and engaging work
• Leading edge technology
• Excellent training and career development
• Happy and focused high performing team
• Work with experienced peers
• Well-resourced operation
• Enhance national security

Successful candidates will be required to be Australian Citizens and be able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance. NV-2 Clearance preferred, but an NV-1 cleared candidate with strong experience and team fit will be considered. This role requires tasks to be performed onsite due to the nature of the networks used.

The successful candidate may need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements applicable to this role, and your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role.

At Leidos, you will be valued, included and supported. So if you are open-minded and keen to be the difference, we look forward to welcoming you.