Sr Security Engineer

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Position Summary

CVS Health is seeking experienced Senior Security Vulnerability Management Engineer (Linux) to join our dynamic team. This role is for a Security Engineer, who will provide hands on guidance and direction in ensuring that the environment (with focus on Linux/Unix) is compliant to the CVS configuration compliance and vulnerability management program.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Security Engineer (Linux/Unix) will be expected to:

Operations:

• Oversee the administration, and implementation of the Linux/Unix/ESXi monthly vulnerability and Minimum Security Baseline program.
• Create and automate jobs to ensure configuration compliance.
• Utilize automation tool to ensure patching jobs are configured properly prior to deployment and verify the closure of vulnerabilities.
• Communicate with customers to ensure environmental compliance.  Manage and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers to validate the remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Modernize and optimize current environment to ensure SLAs are met.  Liaise with key vendors on upcoming threats and fixes.
• Plans and remediates ad-hoc, off cycle patches for Linux/Unix and ESXi. On call support as L3 escalation for outage and critical incidents.

Engineering:

• Collaborate with threat and vulnerability management, system administrators, and architectural teams.
• Assess new products for integration and automation for remediation effort.
• Lead technology initiatives for enterprise configuration compliance and vulnerability management programs involving integrating and reporting with Qualys and ServiceNow dataset.
• Manage and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers for ensuring closure of vulnerabilities and MSB failures.  Modernize and optimize current environment to ensure SLAs are met.
• Act as liaison with key vendors on upcoming threats and fixes. 

Security and Compliance:

• Partner with the security team to implement and enforce security best practices, ensuring that Linux servers and associated services meet CVS Health's security and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with the security team to conduct regular vulnerability assessments and apply patches, updates, and security configurations to mitigate potential threats as needed.
• Respond to audits relating to security frameworks (e.g.  FTC, PCI, SOX, SOC, SOC2 etc.). Adhere to agree upon CIS benchmarks by maintaining the Minimum Security Baseline.

Performance Optimization and Capacity Management:

• Stays current on active threats and develops a proactive program to remediate as soon as possible.
• Develops dashboards and metrics to not only show where possible threats exist, but to display compliance of the Linux environment.
• Ensure best practices are adopted across the enterprise for security and vulnerability remediation. 

Automation and Scripting:

• Automate routine tasks and processes through scripting and automation tools to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention. Develop tools as appropriate to optimize the environment.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:

• Maintain up-to-date documentation of vulnerability best practices, procedures, and policies. Share knowledge and expertise with junior team members, facilitating skill development and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Educates internal team on best practices.

Stakeholder Interaction:

• Educate clients on current and upcoming threats, and actions being taken to remediate.  Liaise with internal security on plans and actions around vulnerability management.

Required Qualifications

• 7 plus years of experience in a hands-on security engineering role, with a focus on vulnerability managem