Senior IT Security Operations Engineer

Who is SimSpace:

SimSpace launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most urgent and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges to reduce risk for our most vulnerable and valuable infrastructure. The organizations around the world that we depend on every day to keep our loved ones safe and secure. Our healthcare facilities, schools, financial institutions, transit centers, grocery stores, and workplaces just to name a few. To deliver global resiliency, we provide an elite cyber range platform to curate unassailable cyber defenses, data driven decisions, cutting edge training labs, live attack scenarios, and extensive individual and dynamic team readiness training. 

SimSpace works as OneTeam to elevate humanity around the world. We are committed to continuously improving and delivering a cultivated member experience whether that is accomplished through focusing on supporting our client’s teams or our own mission driven SimSpacers. 

We are an international company headquartered in Boston's Fort Point in the U.S. If you are interested in elevating the technology and creative solutions necessary to secure and safeguard our future while working alongside others who share your passion for purpose and development, we want to meet you!

Why should you choose a career at SimSpace?

We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere everyday which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

Our core values:

• Serve to Protect – We provide safe space, deliver on the mission, and elevate humanity
• Acquire Understanding – We seek and provide clarity 10x, cultivate comprehension, and believe information goes both all ways
• Operate as Innovators – We stay curious, practice consistency over intensity, and continue to be the change we need in the world
• Teamwork Without Borders – We are never alone, we solve for all, and keep people at the heart of everything we do

We are looking for:

The Senior Security Operations Engineer will be responsible for owning and maintaining the security of all of the information systems, applications, and data of the organization, and will also be responsible for the daily technical operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC), under the guidance of the SOC manager. This role requires an individual with deep technical expertise in information security, as well as the ability to work both independently and in a team. The Sr. Security Operations Engineer will collaborate with members of the infrastructure team, and drive the adoption of security best practices, improve existing security processes, and ensure adherence to the organization’s security policies and procedures.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to use professional oral and written communication along with strong analytical and critical thinking skills to successfully take ownership and design and drive solutions. Effective and collaborative interactions with colleagues, end users, IT leaders, and business stakeholders are critical to ensure success. The candidate should be an effective change advocate, possessing the ability to understand the impacts of technology transformation.

What will you be doing as a Senior Security Operations Engineer at SimSpace?

• Architect, design, implement, and maintain integrated network security controls and countermeasures to ensure the highest level of security/integrity. This includes owning and configuring tools such as; EDR, SIEM, IPS/IDS, DLP, VPN, WAF, DNS Filtering, and others.
• Administer authentication and access controls, including provisioning, changes to access, owning privileged security/access roles, and access permissions to information assets.
• Work with security leadership on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) efforts, including audits and risk assessments.
• Security Integration: Work closely with development teams to incorporate security requirements into the platform's design and development processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that security is a fundamental aspect of all aspects of the platform.
• Vulnerability Management: Conduct regular tests and scans to identify network and