Security Engineer

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.
Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, or related field or equivalent experience/training.
• 3 years of scripting and automation experience.
• 3 years of Information Technology Security related experience.
• Available to travel.
• Available to work a flexible schedule and support the incident response teams during triage.
• Must be detail oriented, well organized, thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment, leverage best practices, and most importantly, innovate through any problem with a can-do attitude.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Information Technology Security related experience.
• 1 year of building and using APIs.
• 2 years of networking experience.
• 5+ years of Windows/Linux experience.
• 2 years of data engineering experience.
• Active Directory experience.
• Information Security Certification.
• Security+.
• CISSP.
• Ability to script in languages like Power Shell, Python, or JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix, BASH/Power Shell, Basic Windows Administration.
• Knowledge of basic security controls and architecture.
• Knowledge of Networking concepts, services, and protocols.
• Knowledge of SIEM, EDR, SOAR Platforms, Big Data Platforms.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools.
• A solid understanding of cyber security concepts, vulnerability identification and cyber threat intelligence.
• Aptitude in solving problems independently while also having the openness to work collaboratively.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead a small squad of engineers to deliver sustainable, scalable, and staff tolerant enterprise services.

What You Will Be Doing

• Aid application teams seeking to consume threat intel into the appropriate tools and services.
• Consistently work with CIR and Application team in an iterative fashion to ensure that all security logs are monitored, accounted for, and complete.
• Tune alerts generated from all Cybersecurity tooling.
• Work with the Cybersecurity Incident Response (CIR) groups to enforce process governance and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Work with Security Analytical platforms, SOAR, SIEM, EDR, and other detection and incident response technologies.
• Develop a playbook and process automation utilizing the SOAR technologies.
• Assist external teams in the proper configuration of security infrastructure that CIR relies on (IDS/IPS, Phish technologies, Firewalls, etc.).
• Aid external teams in ingestion of asset data into CIR systems.
• Create processes that allow non-security minded teams the ability to achieve regulatory compliance.