AddressPosition Title: Staff Security Engineer
Location: Hershey, PA
This position can sit 100% remote.
Description:
As a Staff Security Engineer for The Hershey Company, you will act as a strategic, multi-disciplinary technical lead to design and build a defensible network to minimize cyber risk to the company’s vision. The team has three major service categories. The first is infrastructure protection, which designs and builds solutions that protect enterprise systems from cyber threats. The second is analytic engineering, which designs and builds solutions that support threat intelligence, detection, investigation, and response to cyber threats. The third is security consulting, which enables IT architects, developers, engineers, and administrators to design and build secure technology solutions.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with leadership, customers, and stakeholders in both IT and Information Security to develop requirements based on a changing threat landscape and new digital capabilities.
- Lead the innovation and design of new, multi-disciplinary security solutions that mitigate or reduce cyber risk that is identified via assessments, consultations, and incident response.
- Coordinate the implementation of new security solutions that are prioritized for their effectiveness at reducing cyber risk.
- Train Security Engineers on collaboration with security administrators to monitor and maintain security solutions.
- Research, assess, and continuously improve security solutions to ensure they are maturing and adapting according to the evolving threat landscape and evolving business requirements.
- Ideate, initiate, plan, execute, and close security projects in coordination with project management and project resources.
- Lead the strategic implementation of security standards in alignment with security policies.
- Consult with IT and internal and external business partners to ensure that security is factored in the evaluation, selection, installation and configuration process of hardware and software.
Summary of major duties:
- Lead the innovation and design of new, multi-disciplinary security solutions.
- Research, assess, and continuously improve security solutions.
- Consult with customers and partners to understand requirements and enable them to design, build, and secure technical solutions securely.
- Lead the strategic implementation of security standards in alignment with security policies.
- Train Security Engineers on collaboration with security administrators to monitor and maintain security solutions.
Education:
- Master’s (preferred) or Bachelor’s in computer science, cybersecurity or a related field 5-7 years of experience in cybersecurity, especially in a Security Engineering role
- The ideal candidate will maintain one or more of the following certifications, though they are not required: GSE, GDSA, GCIA, GCIH, GSEC, GCDA, CISSP
Experience:
- Technical expertise in 6+ security domains between endpoint security, network security, email and web security, data security, identity security, cloud, containers, Operational Technology (OT), vulnerability and configuration management, threat intelligence management, security automation, and security incident and event management (SIEM).
- Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure including applications, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, IP networks, storage networks, and backup media.
- Strong working knowledge of IT service management, including change management, configuration management, asset management, incident management, and problem management.
- Proficiency with at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
- Strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques.
- Understands business needs and has a commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt and efficient service to the business.
- Understands organizational mission, values, and goals and consistently applies this knowledge.
- Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
- An ability to effectively influence others to modify their opinions, plans, or behaviors.
- Self-motivated and possessing of a high sense of urgency and personal integrity.
