Cyber Security Engineer IV

Cyber Security Engineer IV
Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, or Charlotte, NC (onsite 4 days per week)
4-month contract to hire
Pay Rate: $75.00 - $90.00per hr.
Salary Target: $140-150K

We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Engineer who supports applicable services for cloud applications, infrastructure, platform security, and related technologies within the Cyber Security organization. The engineer at this level is considered a subject-matter expert (SME) utilizing extensive experience and technical knowledge and may lead complex projects as necessary.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilizes extensive knowledge in the design, implementation, and support of relevant cyber security technology solutions
• Provides technical administration to include troubleshooting support, break-fix operations, patching, and other day-to-day activities for relevant applications
• Stays abreast of industry trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs, ensuring team mutual knowledge and awareness
• Reviews and maintains operational documentation and reports to support monthly trend analysis as well as project components
• Leads research, proof-of-concept, selection, and implementation of technology solution
• Conducts an advanced level of analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options, offering opinion to management regarding disputes and contrasts
• Explores implementation of new technologies, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers
• Leads the examination of technology vision, opportunities and challenges regarding security standards and the impact of the technology within the Cyber Security organization
• Develops and maintains relevant metrics, controls, and other governance administration related to cyber security technology
• Participates in on-call rotation for the support of any relevant cyber security technologies
• Assists management collaborating with other teams on projects, ensuring alignment with the goals and objectives of the Cyber Security organization
• Works jointly with management to assist in the development of technical skills and knowledge among team, ensuring the organization has adequate resources to ensure the safety and protection of the technology and assets
• Serves as a mentor to team members
• Acts as a role model in adhering to operational processes, standards, and procedures
• May serve as a leader in security incident response activities and post-event reviews of security incidents
• May serve as the subject-matter expert regarding design, implementation, and maintenance of relevant cyber security solutions to business areas, project teams, and vendors
• May lead complex projects as assigned by management

Required Skills

• High School Diploma or GED, plus 10 years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security and/or Information Technology.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Security, Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience within a Cybersecurity/Information Security organization in the financial services industry.
• Relevant technology/security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CompTIA Security+, CCNA, MCSA).
• Required AWS Cloud experience, CI/CD, and prior development experience.
• AWS services and security expertise, including API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, ECS, VPC, EKS, Firewall Manager, Lambda, AWS Security, and AWS Architecture.

Bonus Skills

• API Design and Security
• Application-Oriented Networking
• Application Release Automation
• Citrix NetScaler
• Enterprise Application Development