Information Security Engineer
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Job Summary
Mid-level InfoSec Engineer with experience in IT security areas including applications, systems and network. May also have experience in audit, compliance and governance.
Responsibilities
Security Architecture
- Fields, receives and reviews security architecture requests from internal customers
- Assists in reviewing and assessing adherence of new security architectures to guidelines and rejecting if said architectures do not meet requirements
- Researches security best practices for networks, systems and applications
- Reports and makes recommendations to senior members of the architecture team for policy revisions, changes and additions
Security Engineering
- Executes proofs of concepts
- Evaluates and scores vendor solutions against use cases for final vendor selection
- Manages towards project timelines, executing on deliverables in partnership with internal networking and infrastructure teams
- Provides technical status reports to management
- Responsible for anticipating technical roadblocks and escalating issues
- Responsible for managing all technical aspects of implementation
- Executes on the implementation of new security solutions for the enterprise
Security Operations
- Responsible for day-to-day security operations, 24/7/365
- Operates and troubleshoots next-generation firewalls, cloud web proxy, mobile device management systems, endpoint security, vulnerability management systems, intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) systems, and security incident event management (SIEM)
Security Incident Response
- Responsible for day-to-day security incident response, 24/7/365
- Investigates, researches and analyzes security incidents as they are escalated or reported
- Uses established procedures for remediation of incidents, escalating as needed for additional guidance
Security Policy & Compliance
- Responsible for following process to publish global IT security policies
- Triages and resolves basic customer security inquiries per documented guidelines
- Executes against enterprise compliance road-map
- Follows documented guidelines to ensure adherence to compliance goals
- Researches international regulations for information security and privacy and provides insight to management on possible policy changes or specific security controls
Cloud Security
- Responsible for following process to publish global IT cloud security policies
- Triages and resolves basic customer security inquiries per documented guidelines
- Executes against cloud compliance road-map
- Follows documented guidelines to ensure adherence to cloud compliance goals
- Researches international regulations for cloud security and privacy and provides insight to management on possible policy changes or specific cloud security controls
Qualifications
- Proven years of experience
- Bachelor's preferred
- Certification in SANS (GPEN), SANS (GCIH) and SANS (GCED) preferred
This position requires working Sunday through Wednesday
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