Senior Security Engineer 1

Senior Security Engineer 1

Security Engineering

US Exempt Regular

Full time

Stateside Exempt 4.2

Location: Adelphi, MD (Hybrid)

Summary:

The Senior Security Engineer will be responsible for identifying potential threats to the IT infrastructure, recommending enhancements accordingly and implementing those technologies. The senior security engineer provides support to ensure applicable information protection policies, procedures, guidelines, and best practices are followed. Performs Security Risk Assessments (SRAs) and compliance reviews to ensure applications and services are operating in accordance with established policies and procedures. Educates stakeholders in the assessment process and leads both pre- and post-assessment meetings.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as a security expert in networks, endpoints, and enterprise applications efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and IT security policies, industry regulations, and best practices.

• Manage vulnerability assessments on various types of networks and topologies; 

• Execute risk and vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.

• Conduct penetration testing on IT infrastructure.

• Analyze output from network vulnerability assessments, recommend mitigation strategies and resolve any security incidents through work with pertinent business departments.

• Review and provide feedback on security plans and procedures regarding all aspects of LAN, WAN or MANs, as applicable; 

• Review and provide input into networks and endpoints designs to ensure compliance with security and enterprise architecture.

• Review in-house and 3rd-party applications/code for security vulnerabilities and best practices.

• Build/enhance security architecture and configure networks and endpoints to enhance the security posture of the enterprise.

• Research, design, and advocate new technologies, architectures, and security

• products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers,

• business partners, and vendors.

• Participate in Software Development Lifecycle: code review, QA security testing, launches, etc. 

• Develop and/or implement automated security testing tools where possible. 

• Participate in the development of security-related tools and applications, such as multi-platform cookie-based authentication and internal security libraries/frameworks. 

• Train engineers on common security problems and best practices for writing secure code. 

• Performs hands-on testing of applications, as well as building and enforce information risk management requirements and structure, including providing practical secure architecture skills and developing and implementing Information Security best practices.

• Lead and execute projects on our security roadmap.

• Adhere to existing risk management frameworks, such as COBIT, ITIL, and ISO 27002. 

• Participate in managing incident response for network security events.

• Develop and maintain IT security policies.

• Provide input and visibility into emerging security technologies, deployment strategies and other security protocols to ensure awareness within the IT security branch.

Skills:

• Basic skills needed include: 

  • Secure solutions development

  • Middleware security

  • N-tier apps dev infrastructure

  • Compliance – PCI, GLB, GLBA, CMMC. GDPR, etc.

  • Risk management and security risk assessments

  • Code review, reverse engineering

  • API’s and protocols 

  • Authentication and authorization. SSO (Single Sign On), MFA (Multi- Factor Auth.).

• Enterprise aware (change control, downstream impacts, understanding of cause and effect, change windows, etc.) 

• Recognized as a strategic thinker and is results oriented 

• Demonstrated effective strong team player and self-motivator. Ability to work and interface internally with an IT and other functional support groups with minimal guidance 

• Demonstrated successful experience in a customer-facing role 

• Demonstrated communicator both written and verbal, with effective presentation delivery and meeting facilitation  

• Demonstrated effective time management, organizational and documentation skills

Education & Experience Requirements:

Experience:

• 7 years or more of professional experience