Senior IT Security Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior IT Security Engineer is responsible for planning, deploying, administering, and maintaining security platforms and technologies to protect the organization's IT infrastructure. This role involves independently executing security initiatives, coordinating tasks among security and IT teams, and ensuring systems are optimized and compliant.

What You Will Do

Coordinating the deployment, configuration, management, and retirement of security tools, monitoring and managing enterprise security systems, cloud environments, and SaaS environments, providing deep technical analysis and support of security incidents, and managing compliance with IT and security policies and standards.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong technical expertise, leadership, and communication skills are essential, along with relevant certifications like CISSP or CISM. This role requires a results-oriented professional with verbal/written communication skills, customer service skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume team environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent training and work experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT Security
• CISSP Certification
• Expertise in networking protocols, administration of Windows and at least one Linux variant, and security technologies
• Proven experience with security tools and techniques
• Demonstrable knowledge of security, AWS and Azure cloud, and network design and implementation
• Demonstrable knowledge of data storage and management including data lakes and warehouses
• Demonstrable knowledge of AI workflows and threats and risks to AI systems
• Demonstrable knowledge of IaC including the use of HCL, YAML, or JSON
• Basic scripting skills in two or more of the following: Powershell, Python, or Go
• Basic scripting skills in Shell
• Solid communication and cross function collaboration skills
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and/or within a team, pay attention to detail and meet deadlines
• Analytic and Reporting skills
• Utilize sound judgement and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-volume, team environment

Benefits

• health care benefits
• life insurance
• time off benefits
• 401(k) plan
• bonus program