Security Engineer
Role Overview
The Security Engineer independently owns defined security workstreams across operations and engineering.
The role owns day-to-day health of assigned security tools, investigates security events, and drives vulnerability and risk outcomes.
The engineer breaks down moderately complex problems, works with general direction on new assignments, and escalates issues outside their domain or with high business impact.
The role partners with Cloud Operations, Engineering, IT, and business teams.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Security Engineer independently owns defined security workstreams across operations and engineering.
The role owns day-to-day health of assigned security tools, investigates security events, and drives vulnerability and risk outcomes.
The engineer breaks down moderately complex problems, works with general direction on new assignments, and escalates issues outside their domain or with high business impact.
The role partners with Cloud Operations, Engineering, IT, and business teams.
Security tooling and engineering
- Own deployment, configuration, testing, monitoring, and maintenance of assigned security tools, which may include SIEM, EDR/CNAPP, DLP, ZTNA, WAF, CASB, secure web gateways, URL filtering, email security, and scanning platforms.
- Lead medium-sized security initiatives end to end, from gathering requirements and selecting an approach through testing, piloting, and implementation.
- Run proof-of-concepts and product evaluations, assess fit against security standards, and recommend decisions.
- Improve owned tools and services, maintain runbooks, resolve operational issues, and document procedures, workflows, architecture diagrams, and playbooks.
Monitoring and incident response
- Independently triage and investigate security events using SIEM, EDR, DLP, WAF, CASB, secure web gateway, and email security tools.
- Judge event severity and decide whether to contain, close, or escalate; promptly escalate high-impact incidents.
- Apply and adapt incident response playbooks, document root causes and lessons learned, and recommend preventive fixes.
Vulnerability management and testing
- Perform secure baseline reviews, infrastructure, endpoint, and application vulnerability scans, penetration-test validation, and AI red-team tests.
- Validate findings, prioritize them by risk, and drive remediation with system owners through closure.
- Escalate critical risks and zero-day vulnerabilities and coordinate mitigation with affected teams.
- Identify automation opportunities in vulnerability workflows and help integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, and External Attack Surface Management into CI/CD pipelines.
Risk, threat modeling, and improvement
- Assess security risks for internal initiatives, product enhancements, vendors, and productivity tools, and provide clear recommendations.
- Perform STRIDE threat modeling for internal projects and AI-enabled tools and produce practical risk mitigations.
- Use working knowledge of Agentic AI concepts and AI security risks to assess AI-related initiatives.
- Complete vendor risk assessments in OneTrust; improve owned processes and controls and share relevant security learnings.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- The provided description states a requirement of 5+ years of experience in Information Security.
- The source description ends during the required qualifications section; further requirements are unavailable.
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