Insider Threat Program Engineering Manager

About the role

The Digital Sector at Leidos has an opening for an Engineer Manager supporting the HEITS Contract as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Insider Threat Program (ITP). In this role you will act as the senior leader for a team of engineers and architects responsible for sustaining, developing, and advancing the ITP cybersecurity infrastructure baseline, providing critical troubleshooting and technical expertise to customer systems. The ITP mission focuses on identifying insider threats through advanced analytics, monitoring, and data correlation to protect the DHS mission. You will serve as the senior technical expert assisting the program manager/Government Engineering Lead in overseeing the day‑to‑day activities of a team of 8‑10 professionals, including User Activity Monitoring (UAM) Engineers, DBAs, Information Assurance specialists, Network Engineers, and Systems Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of Engineers, Database Analysts, Network Engineers, ISSOs, and other technical employees.
• Coordinate team activities to ensure the User Activity Monitor Software solution, configuration baseline, maintenance/updates, and overall ITP enterprise infrastructure remain operational; provide guidance on upgrades and system recapitalization, perform availability/capacity management, support all networking requirements, and ensure full availability of network switches and routers.
• Oversee the High Speed Guard Cross Domain solution that enables data transfer between multiple classification domains.
• Support all documentation to effectively capture the configuration baseline.
• Support performance management to track and capture key metrics that reflect the efficacy and performance of the enterprise.
• Oversee all information assurance activities to maintain the continued security accreditation of the enterprise.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks in a fast‑paced environment.
• Work with other project managers and the program manager to successfully bring projects to completion.
• Evaluate, test, and recommend new security technologies and processes to enhance enterprise defenses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience.