Sr. Security Engineer

Sr. Security Engineer

Location Remote

Full Time

My Direct Client is looking for a Sr. Security Engineer who will be responsible for the engineering, design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, analysis, and administration of the company s security solutions and security events. The Sr. Security Engineer will also establish procedures, and, wherever possible, automate routine day-to-day tasks to reduce operational overhead. The Engineer will act as a project security lead as a well-rounded subject matter expert in the Information Security domain. Both cloud and on-prem technologies and solutions are within scope.

What You ll Be Doing:

• Develop and maintain a robust security technology strategy designed to address risks associated with cloud and datacenter environments
• Recommend, implement, configure, and maintain technical security solutions designed to protect information assets both on-prem and cloud-based
• Perform vulnerability assessments, security controls checks, and reporting
• Identify and define security requirements while working with the Project and Development teams
• Manage current security threats and solutions to ensure public cloud and on-prem environments are properly secured, monitored, and documented
• Manage network control systems/equipment, network diagrams and firewall configurations
• Participate in security incident response through in-depth, technical analysis
• Manage standard operating procedures and protocols
• Manage security related initiatives as they arise

Skills:

• Proven work experience as a system security engineer or information security engineer
• Need a wide range of security knowledge (IAM, PAM, incident management, network security, etc). 
• Experience securing multi public cloud environments
• Excellent understanding/working knowledge of the public cloud infrastructure and services in AWS (IAM, VPC, KMS, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, Azure PaaS, Azure networking, Azure Security Center, etc.)
• Experience with CyberArk identity and access management solutions. Familiarity with implementing, managing, and troubleshooting CyberArk s password and privileged access management functionalities.
• Ability to actively assess existing cloud implementations, identifying security issues/ prioritizing fixes and delegating to junior technical resources appropriately
• Ability to engineer and implement public cloud security tools and techniques to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of all public cloud implementations
• Experience working within an environment using DevOps and CI/CD strongly preferred
• Direct experience with engineering, deploying, managing and supporting various security solutions including firewalls, IDS/IPS solutions, endpoint security, authentication systems, log management, content filtering, vulnerability scanning tools, etc.
• Direct experience designing secure networks, systems and application architectures
• Familiarity with web related technologies such as web applications, web services, and service-oriented architectures along with network/web related protocols
• Direct experience performing security incident response
• Experience planning, researching and developing security policies, standards and procedures
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and tooling
• Able to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic environment with continuously shifting priorities
• Ability to communicate network security concepts and issues to peers and management
• Possess and maintain up-to-date understanding of emerging trends in InfoSec including research of the latest security products to combat these threats
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated personal initiative in maintaining a continuous high level of professional knowledge in areas of security and risk management
• Ability to travel to company offices or other locations occasionally as needed for meetings, training, to perform work tasks, etc.

Qualification:

• Bachelor s degree in Information Security, Information Systems, or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience OR 7 years of demonstrable progressive work in the information security field

Desired Qualifications:

One or more of the following certifications strongly preferred:

• CISSP (and/or other ISC2 certifications)
• SANS GIAC certifications
• CEH, OSCP, or other penetration testing certifications
• Other industry recognized certifications or accreditations