Lead Cybersecurity Engineer
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Job Description
Summary
Engineers solutions in alignment with the Cybersecurity engineering road map, and maintains processes for the delivery of highly-complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. Facilitates 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. Contributes to analyzing cyber technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators. Identifies robust solutions and build resilient next-generation systems to solve business challenges and enhance the control environment.
This position will require a strong understanding of technologies, processes and data in the Identity & Access Management vertical. The candidate must demonstrate excellent project management and leadership skills to translate product vision into a well sequenced roadmap. This position will require partnership with other Identity and Access Management (IAM) verticals as well as external functions such as our infrastructure and application partners.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes, designs and develops security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure it is consistent with corporate technology goals and risk tolerance levels
- Designs and engineers solutions to align with the Cybersecurity Strategy.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and act as subject matter expert during escalations.
- Validates current and future state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems.
- Oversees security requirements and technical specifications to guide project implementation towards successful solution delivery.
- Provides direction to infrastructure, operations, data and application developments groups throughout transitioning phase, implementation in production and beyond.
- Manages relationships with security partners and vendors.
- Maintains knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats and attack techniques.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with management, peers, project managers and internal customers
- Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements.
- Lead efforts to increase Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled applications by working closely with application teams
- Participate and help manage complex projects / programs from envisioning through design, development and implementation
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting tools are in place and operating appropriately
- Ensure our Directories (LDAP and AD) maintain consistent and accurate Identity information for all Employees, Contractors, Suppliers and Customers
- Manage the integration playbooks and site used to onboard new applications, platforms and federations
- Own backlog and ensure the work items are well understood, testable and completed on time
- Test new integrations and modify development configurations for new entities when necessary
- Hands on configuration and technical work to resolve issues
- Understand and work with customers and extended team to resolve technical and non-technical problems
- Identify and plan to mitigate potential technical and business risks
- Provide expertise and understanding of the Authentication landscape working with leadership to design, engineer and expand the service footprint
- Participate in planning meetings and provide guidance and expertise in support of strategic company initiatives
- Partner with other internal or supplier teams as needed (e.g. architecture, security, network, etc)
- Participate if needed in the expansion of privileged access management solutions
Minimum Qualifications
- H.S. Diploma or GED Minimum
- 6+ years Information Security, Security Engineering or related
Desired Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security or Information Technology
- 5+ years of Identity and Access Management product management or other relevant experience desired
- Demonstrated ability to build consensus across a variety of key stakeholders as well as business and technology leaders to influence successful outcomes
- Consistent record of being results oriented with the desire and ability to achieve aggressive goals
- Experience working directly with designers, developers and QA leads to build, design and iterate on digital products and services
- Experience with SSO products (ie: Siteminder, OKTA)
- Good understanding of IAM principles, IT security needs and dev ops processes
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills that are relatable to all levels
- Superb planning and organizational skills
- Adaptability and multi-tasking; experience working in a fast moving environment
- Experience serving as scrum master, project manager and/or product manager on small and large scale technical applications
- Diligent, disciplined, reliable and strives for highest quality work product
- In depth directory knowledge (Active Directory, LDAP, etc)
- Strong working knowledge of authentication protocols like oAuth, SAML, Radius, TACACS, Digital certificates, Kerberos, ADFS, OpenID, FIDO & Biometrics
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