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Job Description

The Discover Security Intelligence & Incident Response Team (SIIRT) is looking for qualified professionals to join our ranks. Comprised of several sub-teams, SIIRT oversees all information security detection, response, and intelligence efforts for the enterprise.

SIIRT is currently in search of talented, passionate engineers for our Security Data Science & Analytics team. This highly specialized team of skilled engineers serves as experts in creating detection logic and telemetry for our Security Operations Center (SOC) and related enterprise teams. Our primary mission is to enable our analysts to efficiently find, triage, and analyze potential security incidents and related items of concern. To achieve these goals, we have a world-class array of data-driven technologies at our disposal. We utilize an innovative blend of commercial and home-grown solutions to ensure the best possible tools are deployed to meet our analysts' needs.

As we continue to build out our detective capabilities, we're looking for new team members to join us in guarding our enterprise as the last and ultimate line of defense.

General responsibilities of this role include designing the Cybersecurity engineering roadmap, in addition to delivering highly-complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. Drive Cybersecurity engineering solutions, framework, roadmap, program optimization, process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture by assessing technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps and systems design. Analyze competitive strategies, cyber technologies, metrics, and performance indicators. Contribute to robust and innovative strategic solutions and build resilient support for next-generation systems to solve business challenges and enhance the control environment.

What You'll Do

• Engineer solutions in alignment with the Cybersecurity engineering roadmap, and maintain processes for the delivery of highly complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects, and regulatory and risk requirements.
• Facilitate process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high-velocity culture by collaborating to introduce technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps, and systems design.
• Contribute to analyzing cyber technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators.
• Identify robust solutions and build resilient next-generation systems to solve business challenges and enhance the control environment.

How You'll Do It

• Manage relationships with security partners and vendors.
• Ensure compliance with audit, regulatory, and legal requirements.
• Analyze, design, and develop security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure they are consistent with corporate technology goals and risk tolerance levels.
• Provide direction to infrastructure, operations, data, and application developments groups throughout the transitioning phase, implementation in production, and beyond.
• Validate current- and future-state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems.
• Provide subject matter expertise for supported security technologies and during escalations.
• Oversee security requirements and technical specifications to guide project implementation toward successful solution delivery.
• Maintain knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats, and attack techniques.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with management, peers, project managers, and internal customers.
• Design and engineer solutions to align with the Cybersecurity strategy.

Qualifications You'll Need

The Basics

• High school diploma or GED
• 6+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, or related field

Bonus Points If You Have

• Bachelor's degree in information security, information technology, or related field
• Strong skills and expertise in a combination of some of the following areas: big data platforms (Splunk, Hadoop, Elastic, etc.), common security technologies (SIEM, IDS, WAF, etc.), user/entity behavior analytics (UEBA),.
• Cloud security experience, knowledge of common security threats, attack vectors, vulnerabilities and exploits, knowledge of endpoint security principles, programming experience, and knowledge of data science, data visualization, mathematics, and/or statistics.

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