2025-05-09
Leidos
Other
/yr
full-time
part-time
employee
contract
Ashburn
Virginia
20147
United States
Description
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations.? The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.
The Jr. Project Manager will be leading critical SOC engineering projects including projects such as launching applications into the AWS Cloud, Splunk logging, and SIEM implementation, etc. The Project Engineer will need to work with the customer to prioritize operational issues, engineering activities, and development efforts, and drive the schedule to completion. Other projects will include setting up and guiding a Task Management solution to track Engineering and Program Management initiatives. The CBP SOC is a new task order, and new customer space; this Project Engineer will help to better establish and foster the customer relationship.
Primary Responsibilities will include:
• Lead highly visible CBP SOC projects and initiatives to closure
• Lead key customer briefings and generally assisting the SOC leadership (Government and contractor in execution and strategy)
• Lead updates to Processes, SOPs, and Best Practices
• Ensure high quality of all contractual deliverables
• Facilitate quality comments back to the analysts and leads for the source data to ensure the best data for future analysis
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a BA/BS or equivalent experience and 5+ years or prior relevant experience or Masters with 3+ years of prior relevant experience.
Strong customer interfacing experience
Experience with ITIL practices
5+ years technical experience with 1-2 years of small project leadership (5+people)
Experience with Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook
Strong communication skills
Must be a US Citizen
Clearance: In addition to specific security clearance requirements all CBP SOC employees are required to successfully complete a CBP Background Investigation to support this program
Preferred Qualifications:
PMP Certification
Experience in cyber security
Previous experience with DHS or CBP customer
Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) or Networking Operations
Experiencing developing Agile processes
Experience Leading a team
Experience Architecting a Task Management solution like Remedy or JIRA
Experience working with the following technologies
Splunk
AWS Cloud
RSA Archer
MS Project/Visio
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
