Cybersecurity Engineer (HSM – Data Encryption)
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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.
This Cybersecurity engineer role will facilitate process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture.
The engineer will be part of the Data Obfuscation team, supporting and delivering highly complex, secure solutions in the data tokenization and data encryption space, in support of protecting data elements for Discover’s business units.
Key activities for this role will include delivering, providing analysis and delivering technical projects in the name of maintaining compliance and adhering to regulatory and risk requirements.
Responsibilities
Administration, operation, upgrade and support of HSM’s
Design, test, and implement changes/additions to HSM’s in the infrastructure
Monitoring and troubleshooting HSM on day-today basis
Perform audited encryption key management
Basic networking knowledge of TCP/IP working.
Understanding Certificate and encryption technology symmetric/asymmetric key encryption
Analyzes, designs and develops security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure it is consistent with corporate technology goals and risk tolerance levels. Designs and engineers' solutions to align with the Cybersecurity Strategy
Serves as one of the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and acts as subject matter expert during escalations
Develop using the Cybersecurity engineering approach and are consistent with organization-level cybersecurity architecture.
Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners, and external vendors
Applies service-oriented security architecture principles to meet organization's confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.
Validates current and future state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems. Oversees security requirements and technical specifications to guide project implementation towards successful solution delivery
Provides direction to infrastructure, operations, data and application developments groups throughout transitioning phase, implementation in production and beyond
Manages relationships with security partners and vendors. Builds and maintains effective relationships with management, peers, project managers and internal customers
Maintains knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats and attack techniques
Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements
Provides direction to infrastructure, operations, data and application developments groups throughout transitioning phase, implementation in production and beyond
Manages relationships with security partners and vendors. Builds and maintains effective relationships with management, peers, project managers and internal customers
Maintains knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats and attack techniques
Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
3+ Years – Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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