Security Engineer

As a direct report to the Sr. Manager Platform Engineering and Architecture, you will have the following accountabilities: Work closely with enterprise architects, other functional-area architects, engineering, and security specialists to ensure adequate security solutions and controls are in place throughout all IT and cloud systems and platforms to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements; Assess and understand the current and planned security posture for platforms (e.g. servers, databases, web servers), providing recommendations for improvement and risk reduction; Provide security subject matter expertise on cloud control implementation for enterprise-scale projects; Serve as a security expert in application development, database design, network and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and IT security policies, industry regulations, and best practices; Design security configuration standards, procedures, and guidelines for platforms; Design and implement mechanisms for assessing bi-modal compliance with the standards, procedures, and guidelines; Identify and execute on opportunities to automate cloud security controls; Design and build controls to address security risks and events as identified; Define clear, concise, and executable standard operating procedures and documentation for any implemented solutions for formal operational handoff; Recognize, adopt, and instill industry leading practices in security engineering throughout the organization; Provide subject matter expertise on, and conduct in-depth security reviews of, new OS, database, middleware, etc. solutions as they are identified for use; Identify and propose process improvements and identify opportunities for new processes and procedures to reduce risk; Support security incident response as required; Researches, designs, and advocates new technologies and security products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers, business partners, and vendors; Contributes to the development and maintenance of the information security strategy; Evaluates and develops secure solutions, based on approved security architectures; Analyzes business impact and exposure, based on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and risks; Communicates security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff; Embrace a culture of continuous service improvement and service excellence; and Stay up to date on security industry trends. 7 years+ in Information Security space; Strong experience with security strategy, with a passion to make security realistic, achievable and interwoven with the business fabric; Strong experience in migrating enterprise companies from traditional data center infrastructure, application and data designs to hybrid or fully-cloud enabled practices. Strong experience with cloud provider ecosystems, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. Strong experience with a broad range of security technologies, including NextGen Firewalls, DLP, NAC, IDS/ IPS, IdAM, Certificate Management, SIEM, Endpoint Protection, Anti-malware, vulnerability management; Strong experience with multiple relational database platforms, including MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL; Strong oral, written, and presentation abilities - able to convey risk to all levels of the business, from C-level executives to operations and development teams; Some experience with Unix/Linux and Windows system administration/Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), NoSQL database platforms, including Mongo, Cassandra; Some experience with logging and alerting platforms, including SIEM integration; Knowledge of incident response methodologies and technologies. Experience implementing security controls in a bi-modal IT environment; Experience driving a culture of security awareness; Experience administering network devices, databases, and/or web application servers; and