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Security Operations Engineer 🔥


Civis is seeking a Security Operation Engineer to join the Civis Information Security Team.  This position will work with the Director of Information Security on setting and executing Civis’ zero trust security strategy and driving security engineering solutions to meet key security program milestones and cost objectives. 

As a Security Operation Engineer, you will be responsible for championing infrastructure and operation security engineering, and driving SecDevOps, threat and vulnerability management and security best practices to ensure that the Civis is sufficiently protected against internal and external threats, as well as operating in compliance with SOC2 and FedRAMP requirements. 

We are looking for someone who is passionate about security engineering and looking forward to implementing creative solutions to a wide variety of real-world technical issues. An ideal candidate would bring with them expertise in creative problem solving, the ability to work on multiple tasks in parallel, and the ability to manage expectations in a fast-paced environment, all while maintaining a high quality of work. We are looking for an individual who can rapidly adapt and learn new technologies/concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Civis’ Security Engineering by working alongside engineering, IT and security teams to enhance the security of Civis information systems and to ensure our network infrastructure is well-protected.
  • Responsible for identifying & remediating security weaknesses, evaluating/reviewing existing security configuration, and proposing improvements and cost-effective solutions for future enhancements.
  • Develop, maintain and implement information security policies, standards and procedures and ensure projects related to Information Technology and Engineering adhere to Security by Design principles.
  • Assess the risk of open source libraries, applications and architectures through threat modeling and communicating potential vulnerabilities.
  • Help to define and implement SecDevOps and SDLC practices across Civis’s engineering team, promoting a security-first mindset.
  • Perform continuous security assessments and penetration testing, report findings and provide recommendations to the Director of Information Security.
  • Work with various stakeholders to automate mundane or time-sensitive tasks. Integrate automation scripts into the security architecture in a transparent and supportive manner to augment the team current abilities.
  • Lead incident response events and activities.

Required Qualifications

  • 1+ years of technical hands-on security engineering experience.
  • 1+ years of information technology experience.
  • Hands-on experience with Python scripting language. 
  • Familiar with industry security frameworks and tooling such as SASE, SWG, SIEM, NGAV.
  • Experience building security monitoring and management controls using AWS Services such as Security Hub, Inspector and Guard Duty.
  • Deep foundational knowledge in security engineering, information technology, networking, architecture, protocols, file systems, and linux operating systems.
  • Passionate about security and promoting security culture across the organization.
  • Ability to comfortably collaborate across IT disciplines and teams including third parties and be able to provide constructive input into the discussion.
  • Ability to work rapidly with the pressure of completing deadlines and frequent interruptions in a fast-paced team environment.
  • Attention to detail and understanding how systems-thinking can make an impact with smart moves in people, processes, and technologies.
  • Provide emergency on-call support on a rotating schedule.
  • Excellence in documentation of policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Strong problem-solving and process improvement skills. 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Relevant industry security certification is a plus.
  • Experience with cloud security is a plus; ideally AWS.
  • Experience with SaaS products is a plus.
  • Scripting languages experience such as Ruby, Javascript, Bash, Python is a plus; ideally Python and Ruby.
  • Experience with data encryption and access control.
  • Practical experience in implementing and monitoring information security compliance and frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, CIS Top 20, FedRAMP, SOC2).
  • Demonstrated ability to translate requirements into design and subsequent solution build.
  • Experience applying security risk assessment methodology to system development, including threat model development, vulnerability assessments, and resultant security risk analysis.

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