Security Engineer IV

Job Purpose :

This is a customer facing position with the mission of managing technical security controls and effectively managing and communicating vulnerabilities, exploits, and incidents to appropriate operations teams while tracking metrics in order to assist the customer in managing risk. Recommending new controls and evaluating new technologies to reduce or mitigate risk. This position is seen as an SME role with a high level of technical ownership.

Essential Functions :

• Perform security assessments or review of both inter-company and external customer's enterprise environment. While working with customer technical and executive staff, review the state of various technical and organizational controls processes, and policies.
• Perform gap analysis, comparing state to widely accepted best practices from vendors, regulatory and compliance bodies, and the security community at large. Document these gaps, along with sensible and relevant recommendations, in findings reports that satisfy the needs of both a technical and non-technical audience.
• Perform vulnerability scans and penetration tests of customer environments and controls. Using expertise in operation of commercial and open-source assessment tools, identify configuration flaws, missing patches, and gaps in defenses that could be exploited by attackers. Assessment types will include social engineering and phishing, wireless, mobile device, and physical security, and web application penetration tests.
• Assist internal staff with security needs. Provide recommendations for security architecture, processes and technologies. Write technical policy, processes, procedures, standards and other documentation. Perform security research, furthering individual and team understanding of the threat landscape, as well as cutting-edge security technologies.
• Attend security conferences and participate in local security community events. Evaluate products and tools that can improve the security services team's offerings, and provide value to customers.
• Leadership role in cultivating and maintaining relationship with internal and external customers, vendors and partners.
• Act as technical SME and work all technical escalations from the global security operations team including outages and incidents. Lead technical troubleshooting or incident handling events / calls on behalf of the client's security operations team and with the Network, Compute, and Client Operations Teams, internal and external information providers, and others as appropriate.
• Lead all aspects of planning, documentation, and process development of client's global security operations; Drive develop of technical procedures and guidelines for implementation and management of Security services and ensure compliance with requirements.
• Lead technical project efforts for the client's security operations team.
• Participate in expansion of new opportunities with existing customers as they expand their global security operations requirements.
• Provide insight and demonstrated technical leadership to the global security operations marketplace.
• Must be available 24x7 for emergencies and call outs

Education :

Four years of College resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Certifications, Accreditations, Licenses :

Experience :

7 to 10 years in related field

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Supervisory Responsibility :

This position does not have employee direct reports but does serve as a "lead" role for others doing similar work

Salary range : $100,000-$150,000