Senior Security Engineer - Active Directory and Entra ID

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you!  With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

 

PSE's Security, Risk and Compliance team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Senior Security Engineer - Active Directory and Entra ID position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

PSE is Washington’s largest Energy Company, serving over a million electric customers and over 800,000 natural gas customers.  

 

The Identity Services Group is responsible for designing, deploying, and supporting PSE’s enterprise IT systems. This includes our corporate network used by nearly 3,300 employees and 11,000 service accounts. We focus on enterprise solutions, productivity tools, and IT systems integration which helps move all of PSE’s businesses forward.

 

As part of the Identity Services Group, a key responsibility is ensuring all Active Directory services are available and functional. We are also managing the lifecycle of the Infrastructure enterprise systems and the security components.

 

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Security Engineer in Windows Active Directory (AD) Engineer and Entra ID to design, implement, secure, and maintain our enterprise environment. This role requires deep expertise in AD Group Policy Management and RBAC Design, DNS, ACL management, and integration with identity-related services and strong knowledge of Administrative Roles, Conditional Access Policies, IAM Administration and Design, and PIM within EntraID & Azure. The ideal candidate will also support the organization's efforts to modernize and secure its identity infrastructure.

 

As PSE modernizes our infrastructure, there will also be an opportunity to lead the implementation of PKI across the organization.  This role is hybrid and required to work in the office at least half the time.  PSE has a broad range of offices around our service territory.  

Job Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots and investigates straightforward problems independently.
• Intuitively grasps familiar, stable system performance situations.
• Responds to unfamiliar, undefined, unexpected, or unstable situations with the professionally prescribed standard response.
• Assists in development and implementation of Security systems and provides input into overall application design, including automated testing tools.
• Conducts studies and performance analyses and recommends changes.
• May function in a lead capacity within department and represent department in workflow and escalation discussions with others.
• Researches best practices for IT Security. Presents solutions and options for clients.
• Leads implementation and deployment efforts on intermediate projects.
• Participates in mid- to long-term security systems planning.
• Provides cost/benefit analysis on intermediate projects.
• Works with project manager to develop realistic work estimates, financial budgets, and project schedules. Reviews project deliverables for accuracy and provides assistance and mentoring to others.
• Designs IT security systems and/or interfaces to external networks.
• Evaluates and monitors PSE IT information flow and settings, ensuring compliance with IT security policies and architecture standards/guidelines.
• Evaluates security gaps and operational functionality of third-party product architecture and processes and provides effective solutions that bridge gaps and provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems.
• Ensures internal and external security as well as adherence to compliance standards.
• Participates in evaluation of vendor proposals.
• Manages vendor/contractor relationships for assigned projects.
• Updates or creates documentation based on work performed.
• Works with IT professionals and managers, primarily within own segment.
• Proficiently applies IT methods, professional knowledge and PSE standards and practices to complex tasks and situations.
• Effective in relationships with business partners, professional peers, and other team members.
• Coaches less experienced IT professionals.
• Operates under general direction.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Two (2) year degree or certification in a technology-related field or equivalent combination of education, work experience or relevant military experience, and at least four (4) years of experience in related field.
• Four (4) years of directly related experience sp