Description

This employer will not sponsor applicants for the following work visas: F-1 student, H-1B worker, O-1 worker, TN worker, E-3 worker. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Summary:
Summary: The Data Protection Engineer Senior will perform Data Protection engineering activities, with a focus on data discovery. This includes building, configuring, troubleshooting, integrating, and administrating Data Protection technologies aligned to structured and unstructured scanning. These activities will include engineering solutions to solve and maintain data discovery tools and the inventory of those discoveries.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Under general supervisory guidance, build, configure, troubleshoot or administer assigned technology per BAU Data Protection engineering standard operating procedures; execute and design BAU Data Protection engineering processes.
• Lead execution of both scheduled engineering build/configuration events as well as incident(break/fix) events including 24x7 support
• Proactively monitor output of data protection technology to ensure effective operation and respond to trouble tickets/events following standard operating procedure; provide independent analysis/Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of issues, develop and test solutions, present problem and solution recommendation to management for approval/prioritization. 
• Generate and publish data protection technology performance metrics; identify trends and make recommendation for improvement/tuning/configuration changes; Identify, develop and document configuration/design improvements/optimization for supporting continuous engineering and systems performance improvement. Maintain and refine documentation to ensure “evergreen state”.
• Maintain documentation of engineering activities in accordance with Agile project management methodology (Backlog activity, Change Mgt, Sprint activity planning, etc).
• Design and maintain standard operating procedures, run books and topology / data flow drawing for aligned Data Protection technology solutions.
• Assist in activities supporting evaluation, selection, and implementation of data protection technologies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate degree - with Computer Science, MIS, IT Communication Systems/Networking, or STEM discipline focus.
• 3 years IT or Military service in IT

Experience with two or more of the following:

• Networking Design and Operations
• Data Privacy Fundamentals and Advanced Concepts (Working knowledge with Data Privacy Laws and Regulations specific to Financial Industries, Personal Information (PI) protection, Privacy Breach incident management, reporting/impact, investigation & analysis).
• IT Infrastructure Advanced Concepts (IT Infrastructure: Client/Server, Middleware services, 3-tiered architecture (Web/Middleware/Server & Databases), Databases (roles/permissions/access), Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Intermediate programming skills (read/interpret scripts, write basic scripts) with the following languages: Python, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript, SQL or equivalent.
• Direct hands-on experience within Cyber Security organizations designing, implementing, administering, and supporting related technologies or services. Preference for data protection technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert proficiency with leading troubleshooting moderately complex IT infrastructure/Server/Networking issues.
• Expert proficiency with leading technical system maintenance (Patch management, configuration management, design documentation management).
• Direct engineering and/or operational lead/Subject Matter Expert experience with related secure data management technologies.
• Excellent communication skills (writing reports for management/senior management, presenting to small groups/forums, etc.).
• Cross-team or system data collection, correlation, and analysis.
• Independently identify and document programmatic or technological issues and make recommendations for process improvement.
• CISSP; CEH CompTIA Network+, A+, Server+ or equivalent; ITIL Fundamentals; Security +; Cisco’s CCNA, CCNP; Microsoft MCP (Microsoft