Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace. 

 

 

A Senior Cyber and Information Security Engineer provides intermediate support to the information security and information systems teams through managing information security technologies and responding to requests for support. A Senior Cyber Security Engineer works with multiple technologies to implement, monitor, and maintain technologies to support the Westinghouse Information Security Mission and Primary Objectives.  Cyber Security engineers work with multiple technical topics, including incident response, threat detection, vulnerability scanning, and risk management.

 

Responsibilities:

• Primary support and oversight of a SIEM, including deployments into segregated networks and periodic technology upgrades. Microsoft Sentinel experience a plus.
• Support Westinghouse’s Enterprise SIEM in a hybrid on-premises and cloud network configuration, including installations, upgrades, and end-to-end problem identification and remediation.  Microsoft Sentinel and Azure experience preferred.
• Maintain Microsoft Sentinel solution, including deployment of Sentinel in hybrid on-premises and Azure networks, using Log Analytics Gateway architecture, including CEF and Syslog adapter servers in the Sentinel ecosystem.
• Perform log source configuration, and parsing and building data collection rules (DCRs) in the Sentinel environment 
• Utilize KQL to the level necessary to onboard new log sources and to support and troubleshoot log related problems in the Sentinel SIEM  solution.
• Manage, review, analyze and document the current information security solutions and capabilities and ensure they are functioning optimally.
• Possess a working knowledge of antivirus/anti-malware and EDR tooling and threat detection techniques. Experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Identity and Purview preferred.
• Analyze information security application and system events and logs to ensure availability and management of information security technologies and tools.
• Automate and integrate security technologies using API and scripting technologies to link security technologies together and ensure sharing of information across technologies. Enable quick response to identified issues through automated response where necessary.
• Perform IT and Systems design and analysis and propose solutions to complex problems that are not well defined. Identify, define and direct approach for successful resolution of significant technical issues.
• Demonstrate functional knowledge of multiple technologies, to implement, monitor and maintain solutions.  
• Work with multiple technical areas, including Windows and Linux operating systems. Firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation and data flows, and application security concepts.
• Mentors IT engineers in performing engineering work and perform IT engineering design and analysis.
• Supervise lifecycle upgrades.
• Provide level 3 level operational support
• Technical leadership of project activities.

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Associate’s degree in IT, related technical discipline, or equivalent. Master's degree preferred.  
• Minimum 6 years of IT specific work experience with 5 years in area of discipline.
• Professional Level Certification in technical area of competency (CCNP, MCSA, MCSD, CISSP, etc.) preferred.
• Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200) and/or Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) certifications desirable.
• Demonstrates broad knowledge in a variety of the IT concepts, practices, and procedures. Ability to apply extensive and diversified knowledge of discipline principles, advanced techniques, modifications and extension of theories and precepts and practice of the field and related disciplines.

 

 

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system: 

• Safety and Quality 
• Integrity and Trust 
• Customer Focus and Innovation 
• Speed and Passion to Win 
• Teamwork and Acc