IT Security Engineer

Kansas City or Remote

Summary

Security Engineers are responsible for the secure operations of infrastructure, platforms, and software, including the installation, maintenance, and improvement of hybrid (on-premise and cloud) computing environments. They also help develop new designs and security strategies across all applications, including infrastructure, platform, and SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Configure business operating environments securely
• Perform penetration testing and threat hunting to identify potential risks
• Monitor for and respond to incidents in the Firm’s hybrid environment
• Keep infrastructure current, make recommendations, and continually improve security technologies
• Analyze, design, and develop programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities
• Work with analysts and engineers across the organization to continually improve cyber resilience
• Provide support to understand and develop system requirements and technical solutions for cybersecurity engineering based on system architectures (CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and NIST Cyber Security Framework).
• Support the maturation of the enterprise architecture to align with the Firm’s information security and risks to the organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals
• Develop alternatives of system designs and/or architecture, which consider trade-offs between security requirements, functional/operational requirements, and cost
• Identify and define the requirements of the overall security of the network
• Plan, engineer, and monitor overall security implementation of network systems
• Support in configuring and implementing network security tools
• Test and provide solutions for system weaknesses, threats, security issues
• Research and identify latest suitable technologies and processes that will improve the overall security of the system
• Regularly audit the existing network configuration and provide improvement recommendations
• Other duties as assigned

Employees approved for flexible work arrangements are expected to be available and maintain a practice of reliable, consistent attendance at all times during the employees scheduled work shift including, but not limited to, Teams/instant message, Zoom, email and voicemail, and by phone.  The Firm is nationwide, but operates in the Central Time Zone.

Requirements

• Microsoft Active Directory with Azure experience
• 2-4 years of experience in on-premises environment focused on security
• 2-4 years of experience in security engineering
• Ability to perform detection engineering to interrogate computer logs to identify anomalous behavior
• Develop workflows within a SIEM to automate detections and actions taken
• Demonstrative knowledge/experience with (2) scripting languages like Python and PowerShell
• Demonstrative knowledge and expertise with common enterprise-grade security solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• 2-4 years of experience with Metrics, Events, Logging, in an environment similar to Splunk
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent experience.

Compensation

• The budgeted salary range for this position is $100,000.00 – $120,000.00.

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