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Leidos · 9 hours ago

Defensive Cyber Subject Matter Expert

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$144K/yr - $261K/yr

15+ years exp

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Security Clearance Required

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Responsibilities

Serve as the technical expert within the practice area and maintain dialogue with internal and external stakeholders to drive new business development.

Stay abreast of industry trends in infrastructure and platform solutions, data science, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cyber security and application modernization.

Represent Leidos as the DCO technical thought leader, providing persuasive consultative skills with senior level customers.

Advocates for prioritization of practice area needs across relevant enterprise investments.

Participate in the definition and implementation of the long-term technology strategy aligned to the Practice Area, Sector, and overall cybersecurity strategies.

Engages practice area management and within OOT to ideate on innovative capabilities to build, to establish a portfolio of cyber security investments required to support growth goals.

Collaborate with cross functional teams, including OOT, Linc, CHO iRADS and technical fellows to incorporate Leidos technical solutions and subject matter expertise.

Identifying and promoting a healthy portfolio of alliance partners to embrace innovation and disruptive technology and where possible, showcase developing technology both internally and externally.

Work as SME in support of solution development for selected capture opportunities

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the technology team within the practice area and community of practice.

Collaborates with practice area leaders and BD to identify opportunities for insertion of OOT, Sector, and partner innovations onto program and captures.

Engages across the broader Leidos technical community and within OOT.

Participate in industry events to position Leidos capabilities, points of view and differentiation and to develop relationships with prospective and existing customers.

Engage current and prospective customers to demonstrate the company's credentials at solving problems with technically-sound solutions and to understand customer’s priorities and challenges.

Qualification

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CybersecurityTechnical LeadershipCloud-native SolutionsAgile MethodologiesDevSecOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPublic SpeakingProposal WritingPerformance ManagementTechnical ConsultingClient EngagementMentoring

Required

Master's degree or equivalent in Networking, Cybersecurity, or similar Technology, Enterprise Information Technology (IT), and Engineering practice with 15+ years of related global or large-enterprise cybersecurity experience; additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of a degree.

Prior technical roles within similar organizations with growing duties and responsibilities.

Comprehensive cyberspace domain experience; specifically related to defending and operating environments under continuous cyberspace engagement, including DDIL, Edge, Core, Enterprise and Mission Partner Environments (MPE).

Methodological experience with securing and scaling solutions using cloud-native, Agile, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering expertise in conjunction with product and integrated solution System Engineering Best Practices to deliver secure, scalable, resilient and defensible capabilities.

Knowledge of, and experience with, a large fraction of the Leidos Digital Modernization customer base and potential competitors.

Experience with policy formation, performance management, and best practices in the US Government market.

Thought leadership with ability to lead and shape strategic thinking and execution.

Strong oral and written communication skills, along with public speaking skills.

Ability to influence and persuade others, as well as handle difficult negotiations requiring a well-developed sense of strategy.

Ability to mentor, coach, lead, and promote talent.

Significant experience supporting capture activities to include chairing/participating in Gate Reviews, writing specific sections of proposals, providing preliminary technical guidance for solutions, competitive analysis, partnering suggestions, and Basis of Estimate (BOE)/Bill of Materials (BOM)/task cost estimation.