Cyber EndPoint Security Engineer

Company Description

At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
• Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations.
• Cross training in a range of cyber security tools such as SIEMs, firewalls, proxies, sandboxes, mail gateways, DLP and NAC’s;
• Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers

Job Description

Are you ready to be part of an energetic high performing Cyber security team doing work that matters?

We have a great opportunity to join a leading edge team that directly supports our Defence personnel in the field. Our cyber security engineers support the security function for our customer ensuring systems are available, appropriately maintained and secured which ensures the people who put themselves in harm’s way for all of Australia have secure and appropriately hardened systems to support them.

Working within a high performing supportive team this role allows you to utilise your broad experience and make a real difference. Your responsibilities will include

• Provide operational support for a number of Cyber security tools including ongoing tuning and improvements
• Assist with design, deployment and maintenance of cyber security tools;
• Undertake routine patching and configuration tasks; and
• Perform integration and other testing functions.

Qualifications

About You and What You'll

Bring Here are some of the criteria that we think will bring success to the role. Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes - if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

• Strong technical experience in deployment and maintenance of cybersecurity tools
• Experience with Enterprise McAfee/Trellix products such as ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Endpoint Security, Solidcore, Threat Intelligence Exchange
• Experience with CarbonBlack EDR & AppControl (desirable);
• Experience with Forescout (desirable); • Experience with FortiClient EMS (desirable); and
• Working knowledge of virtualisation and other common infrastructure services.

Successful candidates will be required to be Australian Citizens and hold and maintain an NV-1 or above Australian Government Security Clearance.

Additional Information

What You'll Love

We’re a certified Family Friendly Workplace. We respect the caring responsibilities and needs of our people who needs to care for loved ones; it’s a mindset – not a policy. When you grow, we grow. Be it through our exciting pipeline line of projects or by partnering with a People Leader who will guide, mentor and support you.

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how:

• We work with the Australian Department of Defence to design and operate the cyber security tools used across the Army, Navy and Airforce
• We have consolidated 280 data centres into 12 domestic and three international sites, creating a new Centralised Processing environment of the Australian Department of Defence.
• We’re building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.