Sr. Security Engineer

The Sr. Security Engineer – Incident Response Manager will report to the Technology Department. This role will coordinate response to security incidents or incidents that impact the confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability of information systems. The Senior Security Engineer is expected to administer and maintain access to security systems. This role will be responsible for immediate response to team member and stakeholder emails, phone calls, and ad-hoc inquiries. 

 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Lead the organization’s Incident Response Program, including program enhancements, new development, incident/event response, and cross-team collaboration. 

• Align with industry best practices on incident tracking, including mitigation efforts and response readiness. 

• Develop a strong knowledge and skillset across all security functional areas including application security, technical project management, third party risk, policy governance, awareness training. 

• Contribute and assist in the coordination of evidence collection and audit maintenance for organizational assessments. 

• Contribute to all aspects of application security, including vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, code review, and security training. 

• Coordinate and assist in the evidence collection and response queries for inbound and outbound security and IT due diligence as part of a third-party risk management program. 

• Maintain awareness of known vulnerabilities in application technologies used within Inspira. 

• Lead efforts to respond to findings from audits, security questionnaires, and internal/external scanning or testing. 

• Assist in the development of the policies and procedures related to information security, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards. 

• Assist and coordinate cross-functional work with other internal business units, such as Compliance, Legal, IT, Finance, HR, and engage with other leaders to drive security outcomes that benefit the organization.  

• Track and provide security metrics, status updates and reports for the Inspira Security Program 

• Provide guidance to Security Engineer I/II roles. 

 

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Years of Experience: 5-7 years of experience . Degree: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computing Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field. . Certification: Technical Certifications a plus . Skills & Abilities: Highly self-motivated

Possess a combination of technology, security, and analytics skills.

Knowledge of the Financial or Insurance Services Industry preferred.

Intellectual curiosity to find new and unusual ways of how to solve cyber security issues.

Ability to approach cyber security challenges while keeping an eye on what is important.

Experience interpreting, analyzing, and maintaining systems.

Ability to create and maintaining respectful, strong working relationships with both IT and business units to integrate security principles with business operations.

Strong client service orientation

Ability to prioritize, plan and take initiative and be highly self-motivated.

Strong verbal and written communication skills; positive attitude; ability to work as team member.

Experience in a high availability environment preferred.

Knowledge of NIST and CIS practices and frameworks preferred.