Leidos Health & Civil Sector is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cybersecurity Manager to join our team. The Cybersecurity Manager is responsible for the implementation, management, security and availability of all contractor computer equipment and personnel on the program. This person is responsible for Information Assurance (IA) related training, operational procedures, documentation and business processes required to obtain and retain official accreditation of the online resources by full compliance of DoD Information Assurance Risk Management Framework.

This job posting is in anticipation of future work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leads efforts to ensure adequate security processes and solutions to mitigate or remediate identified risks sufficiently to meet business objectives, contractual and/or regulatory requirements

• Leads incident response activities, ensuring security incidents are properly contained, eradicated, and recovered

• Drives development of security policies, standards and plans to ensure the protection of corporate data against unauthorized use, access, modification, and destruction.

• Ensures proper security logs are generated and sent to the organization’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system

• Researches and implements emerging technologies to enhance the security portfolio

• Persistently evaluates adherence with defined policies and standards

• Leads efforts with identifying, remediating, and/or mitigating vulnerabilities in the environment, ensuring appropriate response to high risk and aged findings

• Leads the development, design, implementation, and maintenance of a secure environment for the program

• Ensures security processes and solutions are protected against a failure or attack that reduces the organization’s ability to respond to security incidents

• Ensures processes and solutions are maintained securely and highly available to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of assets

• Monitors and ensures systems revisions and patches are up to date

• Manages and performs changes to the solutions and remove unnecessary services

• Understands risks and impact to systems in the corporate environment and their interconnectivity

• Performs forensic analysis and risk assessments for the entire environment

• Designs and manages enterprise high-availability solutions running a complex arrangement of operating systems, including system updates, log analysis, access controls and backup

• Performs changes to the solution configurations to add new services, adapt existing services, and removes unnecessary services.

• Monitors, remediates, and mitigates security violations for network, devices, servers and other assets

• Designs, implements, and maintains security guidelines and a security infrastructure for the program

• Develops technical solutions to autonomously verify compliance with required technical controls

• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer IT, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or other IT-related field to include course work in information security and program or project management

• A minimum of 10 years of experience managing IT and cybersecurity programs and projects of similar scope and complexity that directly support the DoD military community.

• Certified DoD 8570.01 – M – IAM Level III is REQUIRED

• Must possess one or more of the following active certifications:

  a. CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+ CE)

  b. Cisco Certified Network Professional (Security-focus) (CCNP Security)

  c. Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

  d. Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM)

  e. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

  f. GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)

  g. GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

  h. GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC)

  i. Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

  j. Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO)

• Proficient in navigating electronic systems, computer programs, and virtual service platforms.

• Requires a separate, quiet, private, confidential space to work from as well as having access to your own reliable high-speed internet hard wired to your home or apartment (coax or fiber from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your home. Using a hot spot from a mobile device (tethering) or wireless ISP is not acceptable.

• Must be an U.S. citizen and able to maintain and retain suitability investigation and clearance as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a military environment

• Former Military/Veteran, Military Spouse, or Wounded Warrior

• Understanding and experience with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) authorization process

• Familiarity with the role of cloud computing in the federal government and Department of Defense and experience overseeing cloud services technology

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Original Posting:

November 25, 2025

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.