Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Encryption

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Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$104,800.00 - $172,900.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

This role will provide technical leadership, and be an individual contributor, to teams that design, deploy, and operationally maintain cryptographic products and services including Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and security appliances. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design and deployment of cryptographic products in physical, virtual, and containerized environments. Additionally, they will also have demonstrated experience in automating processes including product builds, operational maintenance, and customer integration and onboarding.

What Will You Do?

• Take primary responsibility in design, installation, maintenance, upgrade, security and enhancement of encryption and key management appliances.
• Provide onboarding, consulting, and troubleshooting services for customers and applications consuming encryption, tokenization and key management services.
• Drive automation strategies for encryption, tokenization and key management products and services including Hardware Security Modules, security appliances and security applications deployed in physical, virtual, and Cloud environments.
• Participate in research, analysis and evaluation of new cryptographic products and services in the Cloud as well as in the local data center.
• Develop metrics and dashboards for encryption and key management service utilization and implement performance improvement measures.
• Provide operational support, trouble shooting and maintenance of major Security related processes, controls or products.
• Analyze, configure, test, document and implement upgrades to security processes, controls or products.
• Designs, develops, and builds new Cybersecurity processes.
• Participates/leads activities to resolve situations involving improper attempts to access or infiltrate our networks.
• Recommends changes to area procedures and products. Implements own recommendations with management review.
• Recognizes, analyzes patterns, and responds to security events and escalates to management.
• Consults with business peers to analyze, support, and resolve Cybersecurity events.
• Understands and has input to the budget process, and shares responsibility for cost-effective expense control of assigned projects.
• Participate in Security and enterprise projects as assigned.
• Evaluate purchases and/or licensed software products to identify and address security exposures.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline preferred.
• 3 -5 years of experience performing builds, administration and/or support of security appliance devices, and knowledge of cryptographic protocols and algorithms
• 3- 5 years of experience with programming / automation languages such as Java, Python, Shell, Bash, Ansible, and common industry continuous delivery tools
• Seven years of relevant experience with Cybersecurity practices, processes, and Cybersecurity event investigation/resolution preferred.
• Broad knowledge of all IT related technologies with subject matter expertise in IT Security related technology and business exposures impacting organizational vitality preferred.
• Demonstrates sound analytic and diagnostic skills dealing with issues that are loosely defined and/or conflict with available information.
• Knows where to obtain information needed to make the appropriate decisions.
• Breaks a problem down to manageable pieces and implements effective, timely solutions. Is very good at identifying the problem versus the symptom.
• Deals increasingly with problems that re