Illinois
Posted 2 years ago

Puretalent matches the best IT and business talent with premier organizations nationwide. Our clients, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to rapidly growing high-tech companies, are exceptionally served by our 1500+ IT and business consultants. Our industry is growing rapidly, and now is a great time to launch your career with the Puretalent team.

Cybersecurity Engineer

Duties:

  • Review security architectures, device configurations, and security controls for new and proposed systems
  • Assist with prevention and early detection and resolution of risks to high value assets
  • Design, architect, implement, support and evaluate security-focused tools and services including project leadership roles
  • Manage enterprise security technologies
  • Develop, enforce, update and communicate security policy
  • Ensure that policies are up to date with evolving security requirements
  • Work with other members throughout the organization to compliance to company policies
  • Evaluate the need for and effectiveness of new security technologies in conjunction with the senior engineers and analysts
  • Interact with vendors and outside service providers
  • Provide input into the development of security policies and procedures
  • Provide detailed security recommendations for the secure development and maintenance of systems
  • Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies
  • Manage relationships with security partners and vendors
  • Ensure compliance to audit, regulatory, and legal requirements
  • Analyze, design, and develop security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure it is 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
  • Validates current- and future-state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems
  • Serve as the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and act as subject matter expert 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

Desired Skills/Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in Information Security, Security Engineering, or related field
  • Demonstrated ability with scripting, coding, and automation
  • Experience with Secure Web Gateway from vendors such as Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks
  • Experience implementing and managing Zero Trust Network Access
  • Experience managing Remote Access VPNs
  • Knowledge of Firewalls, Proxy, IDS/IPS, VPN’s, VLANS, routing and other network security technologies
  • Knowledge of virtualization technologies including virtual firewalls, networking and segmentation
  • Knowledge of Cloud architecture and securing cloud communications
  • Knowledge of SIEM technologies such as Splunk and creation of security event related dashboards
  • Knowledge of access control systems, PKI, multi-factor authentication, and entitlements management
  • Experience developing automation and utilizing frameworks to scale capability and reduce manual tasks

Job Features

Job Category

Technical

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