Principal Cybersecurity Engineer ( Platform Engineering )

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Job Description:

What You’ll Do

Responsibility of the role is to design the Cybersecurity engineering roadmap, and deliver highly-complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. Drive Cybersecurity engineering solutions, framework, roadmap, program optimization, process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture by introducing technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps and systems design. Analyze competitive. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management ​

How You’ll Do It

Acts as the principal advisor to upper management in Cybersecurity matters. Ensures security improvement designs are evaluated, validated, and implemented as required. Performs cyber platform incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact; identifying  Certifies that protection and detection capabilities are acquired or developed, and maintained using the Cybersecurity engineering approach and are consistent with organization-level cybersecurity architecture and service agreements.

Explores and assesses the latest technology trends, disruptions and security/IT service business models to ensure Business Technology maintains, and improves, organization cyber competitive edge.

Works closely with management to define and promote the strategic direction of the team. Provides strong leadership and direction to team members. Provides subject matter expertise across all Cybersecurity technologies. Creates and maintains Cybersecurity technology roadmap. Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.

Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners, and external.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related

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

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient on the Cybersecurity Dreyfus engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

Primarily remain in a stationary position.

Occasionally move about the work environment to complete the major.

Ability to transport physical objects up to 10 pounds

Primarily performed indoors in an office

Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone,

Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Travel up to 10% of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• 5-7 years of experience in an engineering or security-related role

• Exceptional organizational abilities and attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability to lead small-to-medium scale team initiatives

• Demonstrated ability to design and deploy elegant solutions and tooling with minimal oversight

• Advanced level of knowledge with big data platforms (Splunk, Hadoop, Elastic stack, etc.)

• Advanced level of knowledge with automating workloads (Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, 

• etc.)

• Advanced level of knowledge with the maintenance and deployment of workloads on Cloud 

• Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

• Mastery of programming languages and concepts (Python, Javascript, SPL, etc.)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to coach/mentor junior team members from a technical perspective

• Previous experience creating and/or suppo