Cybersecurity Systems Engineer

This role serves as an advisor on best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing enterprise security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide and support the security direction. The candidate is accountable for the security architecture across a variety of applications or domains, to include cloud computing, and assigned to project/initiatives of large size, complexity, and risk. The Senior Cyber Security Engineer develops actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards, and guidelines to ensure enterprise information technology architecture and support is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the security posture.

minimum qualifications:

1. Must have a minimum of 10 years of security engineering experience, with at least 3 years of that experience at a senior level.
2. Must have a minimum of 5 years of operational experience with security devices to include IDS/IPS, firewalls, proxy servers, and web application firewalls.
3. Must have a detailed understanding of and at least 3 years of experience with Splunk Enterprise Security frameworks including: notable event, threat intelligence, risk, assets & identities.
4. Must have an in-depth understanding of advanced networking, operating systems and cybersecurity architectures.
5. Must have knowledge of government compliance requirements including the risk management framework and the cybersecurity framework.
6. Experience developing system interconnects via API to include data exchange via XML and JSON.

Duties:

Establish and maintain a formal security posture that provides a logical structure for classifying and organizing security design elements to ensure a complete and usable security architecture that improves efficiency and risk mitigation of new or current systems or initiatives, to include cloud computing platforms. Manage the life cycle of all security technologies, to include maintenance, upgrades, enhancements, optimization and assess risk as part of the life-cycle analysis. Consult with senior engineers, data architects, and developers to ensure effective security is achieved across the SDLC. Architects, prioritizes, coordinates, and communicates the choice of security technologies necessary to ensure a highly secure yet usable and flexible computing environment. Keep current with security technologies and make recommendations for use based on value. Engage in the intake process for origination of projects to ensure alignment with strategic roadmap. Collaborate with other members of the technical architecture community to ensure successful implementation of security strategies that align and support the enterprise. Act as a key strategic advisor to the IT Leadership Team, and other key stakeholders regarding security initiatives, risk mitigation, and compliance. Supervises cybersecurity engineers.

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