Staff DevOps Engineer Security

Job Description We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), enhancing our developer platform, and ensuring robust security practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SRE principles, platform engineering, and security, with a proven ability to drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and security. The Position: Are you data-driven and have a passion for information security? Do you love data analysis and making large amounts of information understandable and actionable for others? Do you like solving new problems and building new tools and codes? Do you like to work with others in a collaborate effort to build better more security applications? Would you like to join a team of talented security and technology professionals who are focused on building a robust and secure infrastructure? If so, join our team to develop these skills and build your career! A Place for Mom is updating its security monitoring and vulnerability management systems. These systems need to provide useful information to the development teams so they can understand security concerns before they are deployed to production. We are seeking an Information Security Engineer to work as part of a team, interpret findings, and own the issue through remediation, to help us achieve our goal of zero security incidents. Who you are: You are an experienced and results-oriented Information Security Engineer who can work cross-functionally to develop and implement security improvements and safeguards which will protect A Place for Mom's assets, employees, and customers. What you will do: Incorporate A Place for Mom Values into each customer and co-worker interaction. Perform configuration, network, and application technical vulnerability assessments, identify vulnerabilities, validate their relevance, and work with teams to remediate them. Design and implement security solutions across infrastructure and applications to ensure "secure by default" principles are followed. Monitor, analyze, and respond to alerts from automated logging and monitoring tools, including AWS Security Hub, AWS Systems Manager, Cisco Duo Security, Endpoint protect and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, like Alert Logic or Rapid7, including collaborate with DevOps teams to automate security practices, integrating security controls and checks into CI/CD pipelines Respond to security related requests, events, and incidents; perform triaging and investigation as needed; and provide the fixes as appropriate Analyze security threats, vulnerability assessments, and audit results to identify the root cause and recommend or implement security solutions that enable business objectives. Lead the development and enforcement of security standards, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with industry best practices. Collaborate with other teams to support response efforts to security-related findings or concerns and drive to resolution. Analyze mean time to remediation, incident response times, and other security metrics and provide assessment reports. Develop and maintain automated security testing and scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities during the development lifecycle. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the IT security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions and improved security processes. Evangelize a culture of security to the rest of the company through education, support, and empathy, fostering a culture of security awareness Stay up-to-date on the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends, proactively recommending improvements to security posture. Perform additional tasks as assigned. Qualifications: Qualifications Required Skills and Competencies: Strong knowledge and 5+ years' experience in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent work experience). TCP/IP and other network protocols Computer systems and their security functions including authentication, access control, and auditing Securing Windows and Linux-based environments CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, familiarity with IAC tools like Terraform AWS Containerization like Fargate Entry point tools and applications such as firewalls, WAF, CDN, APIs Endpoint solutions such as Anti-virus software and intrusion detection, and encryption In depth knowledge of AWS environments and their security services Scripting with Powershell, Bash, AWS CLI, Cloudformation and Terraform Managing Security tools: such as MFA, SIEM, Auditing, Security Training, Risk Registry Strong understanding of Security frameworks such as NIST, ISO Strong understanding of application security, including secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, and vulnerability assessment tools (e.g., Snyk, Veracode, Burp Suite), and be able to provide recommendations over time. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex security issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to work independently, as a team member, or under the direct supervision of a company leader. Additional Recommended Skills/Education: Ability to work independently, as a team member, or under the direct supervision of a company leader Practical experience implementing a zero trust environment Experience with penetration testing, and replication of the finding independently Bachelor's degree in IT CISSP/CISA/Security+/Network +/CWAPT/OSCP/CEH or other security certification is a plus. Additional Information Compensation Base Salary: $160,000 to $175,000 + 20% Bonus Benefits: 401(k) plus match Dental insurance Health insurance Vision Insurance Paid Time Off All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #LI-KT1 #LI-REMOTE

Created: 2024-11-05