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Cybersecurity Engineer
Location: Silver Spring, MD (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Project: The Client Security Engineering team empowers the Client Global Information and Content Security (GICS) teams by supporting the Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Threat Detection and Response, and other Security teams/functions through the deployment, management, and maintenance of shared, reliable, and extensible security platforms/systems. The security engineer plays a key role in the GICS security engineering team, ensuring that security best practices are followed and that tools and processes that support a secure platform are maintained and kept up to date. Ideal candidates will have a mixture of security and systems engineering backgrounds to ensure that business processes are configured correctly and that security best practices are designed and implemented.
Job Responsibilities:
- Implement design reviews to evaluate security controls
- Identify and communicate opportunities to enhance the security posture of Client.
- Build and / or manage enterprise security platforms effectively
- Communicate effectively across all levels of management to articulate Client security goals and vision.
- Identify and communicate opportunities to enhance the security posture of Client
- Build and / or manage enterprise security platforms effectively (SAAS, on premise or in Cloud)
- Communicate effectively across all levels of management to articulate Client security goals and vision.
- Have a team player mentality; strive to contribute to team cohesion however can work independently if the need arises
- Plan, design, engineer and implement security-related technologies
- Understanding technical security issues, their implications within Client business units and able to effectively communicate them to management and other business leaders.
- Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain security infrastructure – including software and hardware in cloud environments, as well as on-premises.
- Conduct security audits and assessments to regularly determine the effectiveness of security platforms and identify areas of improvement.
- Host and operating systems hardening, auditing, monitoring and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals
- Research and explore emerging security technologies and determine their appropriate use within the company.
- Prepare, document, and create standard operating procedures and protocols.
- Crosstrain and mentor other team members as needed
Key projects:
- Dynamic projects with opportunity for cross-project collaboration.
- SOAR and SIEM integration and development.
- Play a key role in the GICS security engineering team, ensuring that security best practices are followed and that tools and processes that support a secure platform are maintained and kept up
- to date. Ideal candidates will have a mixture of security and systems engineering backgrounds to ensure that business processes are configured correctly and that security best practices are designed and implemented.
Must Have Skills:
- Implementing advanced cyber security technology in a complex environment
- 5+ years of experience; Hands-on experience in security engineering, hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining enterprise security tools.
- Scripting experience (using Python, Go, or other equivalent languages)
- 5+ years of experience.
- Hands-on Experience with automation technologies
- 3+ Years of experience; Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.
Nice to Have Skills:
- Security and Cloud certifications are a plus. (CISSP, Splunk Admin, AWS Solution architect).
- Media/entertainment or distributed global network experience.
Soft Skills:
- Hands-on technical experience with networking and computing system architectures, specifically, the security aspects thereof.
- Thorough understanding of information security principles, techniques, principles, policy frameworks, and best practices
- Hands-on technical experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and review
Education: None required, but certifications preferred.
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