Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (IAM)
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Job Description
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
As a Principal Identity and Access Management Engineer, you’ll design, develop, and operate authentication and authorization tools and processes that enable strong identity services across the enterprise. That means identifying solutions like: Federated Authentication, Web Single Sign On, SAML/OAuth, OpenID Connect, Web Access Management (WAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Privileged Access Management (PAM). Ultimately, you’ll work in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving Agile environment to protect Discover, while enabling our teams to deliver value to our customers.
Responsibilities
Acts as the principal advisor to upper management in Cybersecurity matters. Ensures security improvement designs are evaluated, validated, and implemented as required. Performs cyber defense incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact; identifying the specific vulnerability
Certifies that protection and detection capabilities are acquired or developed using the Cybersecurity engineering approach and are consistent with organization-level cybersecurity architecture
Explores and assesses the latest technology trends, disruptions and security/IT service business models to ensure Business Technology maintains, and improves, organization cyber competitive edge
Works closely with management to define and promote the strategic direction of the team. Provides strong leadership and direction to team members. Provides subject matter expertise across all Cybersecurity technologies
Creates and maintains Cybersecurity technology roadmap. Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation
Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners, and external vendors
Oversees project implementation to ensure successful solution delivery
Researches, engineers and integrates new Cybersecurity solutions. Applies service oriented security architecture principles to meet organization's confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
6+ years – Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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