1 day ago
Base Salary
$154k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery of vulnerability management improvements across engineering, security, infrastructure, application, cloud, and platform teams.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies, priorities, risks, timelines, technical decisions, and implementation activities.
- Define vulnerability management requirements, solution architectures, implementation plans, roadmaps, business cases, and measurable outcomes.
- Oversee continuous monitoring, security testing, vulnerability intelligence, automated prioritization, patch deployment, remediation validation, reporting, and exception management.
- Integrate security tools with asset and configuration management, vulnerability scanners, endpoint and patch management, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, DevOps automation, IT service management, and reporting systems.
- Drive APIs, orchestration, event-driven workflows, infrastructure automation, and policy-as-code to reduce manual remediation work.
- Ensure automated patching includes deployment safeguards such as deployment rings, canary releases, maintenance windows, testing, rollback, exception handling, and recovery procedures.
- Establish service-level objectives, automation KPIs, reporting frameworks, auditability, logging, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and change records.
- Support Agile SAFe planning and ceremonies, track delivery progress, resolve impediments, and manage technical risks and stakeholder expectations.
- Lead continuous improvement and cross-team adoption of standardized vulnerability remediation automation.
Requirements
- Master's degree or equivalent and 15+ years of experience.
- Active Secret clearance.
- Experience as a Tech Lead, Technical Delivery Lead, Engineering Lead, Security Engineering Lead, or similar technical leadership role.
- Experience coordinating technology delivery across multiple technical teams and organizational boundaries.
- Experience designing, implementing, or operating automated vulnerability remediation and patch orchestration capabilities.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, modern engineering practices, application architectures, operational support models, vulnerability management, cybersecurity operations, security tooling, and risk-based prioritization.
- Practical experience in Agile environments, preferably using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Understanding of continuous monitoring, automated security testing, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, and event-driven integration patterns.
- Experience integrating vulnerability scanners, endpoint management, configuration management, ticketing, cloud, security, and deployment platforms.
- Knowledge of automated patch validation, deployment safeguards, release management, rollback strategies, recovery procedures, APIs, scripting, workflow automation, orchestration, and policy-as-code.
- Ability to establish automation KPIs, govern automated changes, define approval thresholds and exceptions, and balance automation with resilience, compliance, security, change management, and business continuity.
- Experience leading cross-team automation adoption and standardizing processes across diverse technology environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, influencing, dependency management, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Desirable experience with enterprise vulnerability management and security scanning platforms, vulnerability intelligence, exploitability analysis, exposure management, automated patching, endpoint or server management, CI/CD remediation workflows, and regulated or high-availability environments.
- Desirable knowledge of deployment rings, canary and blue-green deployments, automated rollback, progressive delivery, cloud security, container security, infrastructure-as-code, software composition analysis, static application security testing, and dynamic application security testing.
- Relevant certifications in cybersecurity, Agile delivery, architecture, cloud, automation, or project management are desirable.
Benefits
- Pay range: $154,050.00-$278,475.00.
- The requisition is anticipated to remain open for at least 3 days, with an anticipated close date no earlier than 3 days after October 22, 2026.
- The posting states that the pay range is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation.
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About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.