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Security Engineer

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonShell ScriptingSMTPTCP/IP

About the role

  • Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects.
  • Contribute to Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of Clients’ mission critical suite of applications.
  • Available 24/7 for any critical security incident response that may arise which requires immediate resolution.
  • Work to ensure security tooling within client’s environments are operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability.
  • Contribute to practice continuous improvement in response playbooks and security tooling.
  • Maintains current knowledge of relevant information security technology and techniques, bringing forth ideas for modernization and improvement.
  • Ensure operational practices provide a sound foundation that utilizes tools and processes for rapid identification of security events to address and mitigate risks.
  • Contribute to “Continuous Improvement and Posture Management” efforts, in respect to client's information security tooling and systems.
  • Assist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion.
  • Contribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards.
  • Provide Level I Support for user password resets and MFA onboarding, resets, and troubleshooting.
  • Communicate with stakeholders to assist in remediation efforts.
  • Evaluation of vulnerability analysis, endpoint, and security tooling packages to ensure acceptable levels of efficacy are met.
  • Contribute in root-cause analysis for security incidents and events, establish preventive measures, mitigations, or remediations.
  • Contribute to weekly and monthly posture and response operations reporting.
  • Assist in the configuration of new applications, infrastructure for needed telemetry for security operations.
  • Contribute to the analysis and recommendation of upgrades, changes, implementation specific to the support and scaling of client’s security operations.
  • Support the Information Security Governance and Compliance team as needed during risk assessments, internal and external Information Security Audits, and Vendor reviews

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in technology or applicable experience.
  • Related certifications (e.g., GSEC, CISSP, GIAC, AWS) preferred.
  • 5+ Years of experience within information security operations in multiple roles.
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and O365 services and technology
  • 3+ years of experience with security incident response and operations
  • 2+ years of experience defining, refining, and driving efficiency in operational processes.
  • Extensive experience with, but not excluded to: TCP/IP, DNS, WAF, SEIM, and SOAR technologies.
  • Experience working with and managing Active Directory / MS Entra ID
  • Experience with SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and response)
  • Experience with KQL and SPL or other Query Languages
  • Experience with powershell, python, and shell scripting
  • Knowledge of information security standards, principles, and practices required.
  • Knowledge of industry security standards, guidelines, and regulatory/compliance requirements related to information security such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, SOC2, PCI, SOX, etc.
  • Knowledge of email transmission, routing, and authentication concepts including, SMTP, SPF, DKIM and DMARC
  • Prioritization, decision making, critical thinking, communication, and relationship building skills