Information Security Senior Engineer

Job Title: Information Security Senior Engineer

Department: Information Technology

Home Partners of America, a Blackstone portfolio company, provides paths to homeownership for people who might not otherwise have one, empowering thousands of households to choose quality single-family homes with transparent, locked-in pricing and the power to rent, buy, or walk away with no hidden fees and no strings attached. Today, we offer a range of leasing options to give more people a chance to live in great communities across the U.S., as well as complementary services to help our residents strengthen their credit and navigate the homebuying process.

At HPA, our mission is to "Enrich the lives of the people we serve, one home at a time. Helping more people get into great homes, in the neighborhoods they love, is inspirational, our business model is unique and innovative, and our resident-led approach is closely connected to our Values:

Be a Good Neighbor

At our core, we are dedicated to making a lasting, positive impact on the world. It's a commitment to our mission, our residents, and each other. We treat others with respect and embrace sustainable and inclusive practices that benefit everyone we serve.

Go the Extra Mile

For us, it’s all about our residents. We give our work everything we’ve got and rigorously pursue excellence. We also champion a culture of continuous improvement to always help each other be better today than yesterday.

Do the Right Thing

We lead each day with purpose and adhere to the highest ethical and professional standards. Integrity is our compass—we are committed to honesty, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.

We are tremendously proud of our programs and the positive impact we have on our residents and communities.

Your Role

Under general supervision, you will assist in analyzing, planning, implementing, and enhancing large complex systems or networks consisting of a combination that may include AWS and Azure could environments, personal computers, mobile devices, LANS, WANs, servers, data storage and the physical and logical components that integrate these systems together as an enterprise. You will assist in implementing multiple enterprise-grade security monitoring and hardening systems and the business processes to support and utilize them.

What will you be doing

Responsibilities/Key Objectives

• Assists in the implementation of multiple security platforms, and develop policies for their effective use.
• Trains other employees and promote/facilitate their adoption by HPA business units into existing business practices.
• Responds to information system security incidents, including investigation of, countermeasures to, and recovery from computer-based attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches; interacts and coordinates with third-party incident responders, including law enforcement.
• Administers authentication and access controls, including provisioning, changes, and deprovisioning of user and system accounts, security/access roles, and access permissions to information assets.
• Analyzes trends, news and changes in threat and compliance environment with respect to organizational risk; advises organization management and develops and executes plans for compliance and mitigation of risk; performs risk and compliance self-assessments and engages and coordinates third-party risk and compliance assessments.
• Monitors information systems for security incidents and vulnerabilities; develops monitoring and visibility capabilities; reports on incidents, vulnerabilities, and trends.
• Analyzes and develops Information Security governance, including organizational policies, procedures, standards, baselines and guidelines with respect to Information Security and use and operation of information systems.

*Applicants holding a real estate license will need to have their license assigned to one of the company’s brokerages after 30 days of employment.

What we look for

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience desired.
• Industry standard security certification desired (e.g., CISSP, CEH, Security+)
• Experience with CIS standards, server hardening, and risk assessments.
• Knowledge of securing medium and large business environments to meet standard security best practices.
• Cloud hosting services (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS) experience (AWS, Azure).
• In-depth understanding of Microsoft Windows architecture, Mac, and Linux (Debian based).

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the qualifications!

A Little More About Us

At Home Partners, we celebrate diversity, foster collaboration, ignite creativity, and value the significance of our work. We seek exceptional individuals who take pride in making a positive impact and share our passion to be a good neighbor, go the extra mile and do the right thing. For more information, please visit www.homepartners.com.

Perks/Benefits

We offer premier healthcare at affordable rates and access to 401K. Here are some amazing benefits you may not find anywhere else!

• Mental wellness resources through Headspace & Ginger, pet insurance, adoption assistance program, compassion leave and eldercare/special needs
• 33 paid days off to start (which includes PTO, holidays, and personal days)
• Hybrid working environment

EEOC Statement

Home Partners of America and Pathlight Property Management are Equal Opportunity Employers and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions including the decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations in which we operate.