Cybersecurity Engineer

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

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.

They 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 

• 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 the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and acts as subject matter expert during escalations 
• 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 

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 

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

• Demonstrated ability with scripting, coding, and automation (e.g., Python, shell scripting) 

• Knowledge of Cloud architecture and securing cloud communications (AWS, GCP) 
• Knowledge of Restful Services, AWS services, and OpenShift container platform 
• Java, OCP, Kubernetes & experience with monitoring tools like App D, Instana or DataDog.
• Working experience with configuration management tools/platforms such as GitHub, Jenkins
• Create and maintain DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilize cloud services.
• 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. 
•  Ansible, ServiceNow, Protegrity

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Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $84,500.00 to $142,500.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&