Mid-Level Defensive Cyber Software Developer

About the role

The Mid-Level Defensive Cyber Software Developer will work with a diverse, highly skilled team to develop unique solutions for Cyber, EW, and PNT threats against US weapon systems. Our products are responsible for alerting our varied array of customers of potential cyber and EW attacks by creative Adversaries highly skilled at attacking.

Responsibilities

• Developing software and/or techniques in the protection of data, networks and host-centric capabilities, as well as detection of, identification of and response to attacks.
• Research and development of signature-based and behavior-based defensive techniques against adversarial attacks on tactical networks.
• Developing technical solutions that require collaboration with internal and external experts as well as; deep analyses and understanding of impact on end-product/solution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or similar degree with 4-8 years of experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of professional development in various programming languages with the ability to show ability either through GitHub, print outs, or even provided media).
• Intermediate Python and Bash
• Minimum 4+ years of professional cyber focused experience, or 6+ years of personal cyber focused experience such as capture the flag (CTF) events, extensive home hardening, conferences, sharable projects, or other similar endeavors.
• A good understanding of networking – protocols at all layers of the networking stack and network architecture accompanied with various tooling needed for network analysis such as Wireshark.
• Working knowledge of Linux on CLI (scripting, daemons, resource monitoring, networking, which ever editor you wish to argue is best, etc.).

Qualifications

• Must be a US CITIZEN and be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI Clearance.

Skills

• Hands-on experience within a security operations center (SOC) with at least one SIEM under your belt as well as an experience with threat hunting that can be properly relayed during the interview.
• Experience with C/C++, Web Development, Agile process, and all the normal programming buzz words you might want to tell us about.
• Experience with Network Security Monitoring (NSM)
• Experience with writing custom detection rules in Suricata, Snort, Yara, Sigma, and/or similar formats
• Certifications such as Network+, Security+, CySA+, Linux+, PenTest+

Benefits

At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

Pay

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

Schedule

Full-time on-site with the Leidos Cyber Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) team that is based in Huntsville, Alabama.

Contact Information

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.