What are the responsibilities and job description for the Zero Trust Security Architect position at Leidos?
The Leidos Intelligence Division is seeking a highly skilled Zero Trust Security Specialist to support a prime program within the organization. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible for preventing, identifying, containing, and eradicating cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection, and protective security services.
Primary Responsibilities:
- As a Zero Trust SME, you will excel at building and communicating security modernization strategies that enable the organization to stay at the cutting edge of our industry.
- You will provide guidance on architecting/designing, leveraging, and operating various operational platforms, including Identity, Credential, Access Management (ICAM), Security Information and Event Management, and Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SIEM/SOAR), and Privileged Access Management solutions.
- You will be responsible for partnering with infrastructure stakeholders to build roadmaps and strategies to transition CBP's networks, computing, storage, applications/services/workloads, and security services to an Enterprise Zero Trust architecture.
Requirements:
- Own the strategy and delivery of enterprise-wide adoption of various operational platforms as essential enablers for Zero Trust.
- Establish and refine customer capabilities, best practices, and adoption roadmap for Zero Trust to protect critical resources.
- Collaborate with infrastructure leaders to build security roadmaps for network, compute, and storage.
- Drive alignment to, and adoption of, industry-leading technologies and standards.
- Collaborate with IT solution teams to integrate Zero Trust capabilities and solutions that improve agency security posture.
- Enable the success of application operations as new Zero Trust-based security frameworks are adopted.
- Build talent of forward-thinking engineers who will be responsible for the full lifecycle of services from design, build, introduction, and retirement/refresh of technologies that make up our security portfolio.
- Bring Network/Enterprise Security Architecture skills to addressing Zero Trust capability architecture and implementation.
- Bring crafting/authoring policy and directive experience to integrate federal government requirements and directives into agency policies and directives.
- Bring governance experience toward constructing oversight bodies, and designing, testing, and implementing automated operational polices.
- Experience creating/crafting/designing cybersecurity and IT metrics.
