Cybersecurity Engineer ( Cloud Security )

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Job Description:

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

The responsibility of the role is to support the cybersecurity roadmap and contribute to the delivery of secure systems, cyber solutions, cyber applications, technical projects, and regulatory and risk requirements. This includes cybersecurity framework, engineering new technologies, program optimization, vulnerability remediation, metrics reporting, performance analysis, and mitigating operational risk in a high-velocity culture. The role is required to support complex project work efforts, perform advanced analyses, make near real-time decisions, collaborate with BT/Business/Audit teams, issue documentation/reports, investigate cases or design solutions, adhere to architecture guides, engineer solutions to advance the cyber roadmap, remediate risk, offer solutions to BT teams, and coordinate implementing the solutions or apply Standards/Audits requirements to ensure security infrastructure and solutions/technologies implementation comply. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Interprets technology direction and analyzes Cybersecurity systems by applying professional systems knowledge/studies, specialized security training, and advanced analytical techniques. Designs new systems according to architecture guidelines and performs continual integration. Performs research and tests on scanning tools and develops a comparison study using security systems, professional knowledge, and systems analysis techniques. Tests defense technologies prior to deployment to determine if it’s feasible for integration. Engineers Cybersecurity and data analytics solutions, including conducting vendor-technology reviews. Supports current- and future-state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems.

• Responsible for establishing cloud security standards, especially SaaS security standards

• Responsible for the operation of cloud security products, and able to analyze the events, alerts, to identify potential security threats

• Uses automation, system tools, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work

• Analyzes Cybersecurity technology capabilities and specifications to identify enhancement opportunities by applying professional systems knowledge/studies, specialized security training, and advanced analytical techniques. Performs ongoing assessment of the team and programs activities to identify opportunities for improvement. Ensures compliance with audit, regulatory, and legal requirements. Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners. Point of contact for escalating engineering, security solutions, and/or advanced analytics tools. Must make decisions quickly to avoid an outage, and ensure the system’s high availability.

• Applies the system’s professional knowledge, studies engineering and systems, and specialized security vendor training to assess threats to infrastructure and vulnerabilities of system(s) to develop a security-risk profile. Supports mitigation and countermeasure strategies from collected threat intelligence, using enterprise-wide, complex analytical system.

• Maintains knowledge of security trends, threats, and attack techniques. Applies the system’s professional knowledge, studies engineering and systems, and specialized security vendor training to utilize Cybersecurity solutions, analyzes events to mitigate risk, and achieve remediation.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,  or related field

• 3+ years of experience in Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyf