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Under the general direction of the Network and System Manager and with coordination from the Chief Information Officer, the Sr. Cyber Security Engineer is a senior-level security professional who plans and designs security solutions and capabilities that enable the organization to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Defines and develops security requirements using risk assessments, threat modeling, testing, and analysis of existing systems. Develops security integration plans to protect existing infrastructure and to incorporate future solutions. Designs action plans for policy creation and governance, system hardening, monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and emerging cybersecurity threats. The position is a hands-on engineering role with responsibilities for building technical controls as well as acting as a cyber security subject matter expert. In this role the incumbent will collaborate closely within the IT infrastructure team to ensure security controls are present in all technical systems. The Sr. Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for the full security stack including identifying security issues, protecting existing systems, detecting anomalies, responding to incidents, and facilitating their recovery.
Job Responsibility:
Design and build enterprise-class security systems for both production and corporate environments
Use and maintain software, such as firewalls and data encryption programs, to protect sensitive information
Check for vulnerabilities in computer and network systems
Recommend security enhancements to management or senior IT staff
Proactively seek security gaps with respect to current and projected business direction and spearhead solutions to address those gaps
Design and contribute heavily to network architecture including firewalls, WAFs, network segmentation, VLANs, VPNs, and DoS/DDoS mitigation
Create solutions that enhance cloud security using available cloud controls/products, third party products, and/or custom-developed systems
Understand corporate authentication and authorization systems including AD, LDAP, ADFS, Azure MFA and how to design secure corporate systems with them
Understand corporate enterprise tools such as Microsoft Office 365 (A5)
Develop security standards and best practices for the university
Innovate new security systems to address the unique needs of the platform
Lead multi-disciplined teams though security initiatives and projects
Review and approve security architecture for new projects or changes to existing systems
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S.) in computer science, information technology, cyber security or closely related field from an accredited institution
5 years or more experience within Information Technology
At least 2 years specifically managing Information Security within an enterprise
Experience working with various NIST compliance standards
Must be detail oriented
able to detect cyberattacks and watch for minor changes in performance
Ability to respond to security alerts and uncover and fix flaws in computer systems and networks
Able to effectively communicate information security needs and potential threats to technical and nontechnical audiences
Expert knowledge in managing Fortinet, Palo Alto, or similar next gen Firewalls
Solid experience managing a virtualized environment using HyperV, Vmware or similar
Expert knowledge of access logging, centralized logging, and monitoring/alerting of security log events such as ELK or Splunk
Knowledge of practical encryption methodologies and practices within an enterprise
Experience with securing Infrastructure As a Service Platforms such as Azure or AWS
Detailed knowledge of network and infrastructure security issues and considerations
Expert knowledge of incident response, threat modeling, and mitigation
Expertise in identifying security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
The ability to perform highly detailed work with sustained attention and care while providing/obtaining information on numerous inquiries is paramount to success in this position
Ability to work effectively with a diverse community
Nice to have:
Prior hands-on experience as both a system engineer and as a cyber security engineer
Ability to work in a multi-disciplined team handling multiple projects and priorities
Responsive to changes in business and risk
On the forefront of emerging technologies, driving new and better solutions to industry security needs