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Cybersecurity Engineer (Linux DevSecOps Engineer)
Mid Level
Atlanta, United Stateshybrid
Full time
Digital, Product & TechIT & InfrastructureEngineering & Development$91k – 169k
Job description
About the Role
The Cybersecurity Engineer plays a key role on the WBD Global Information and Content Security (GICS) security engineering team. The team supports Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Threat Detection and Response, and other security functions by deploying, managing, and maintaining shared, reliable, and extensible security platforms and systems. The role ensures security best practices are followed and that supporting tools and processes remain current.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement design reviews to evaluate security controls and identify and communicate opportunities to enhance WBD's security posture.
- Build and/or manage enterprise security platforms effectively.
- Communicate effectively across all levels of management to articulate WBD security goals and vision.
- Plan, design, engineer, and implement security-related technologies.
- Understand technical security issues, their implications within WBD business units, and communicate them effectively to management and other business leaders.
- Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain security infrastructure, including software and hardware in cloud environments and on-premises.
- Conduct security audits and assessments to determine the effectiveness of security platforms and identify areas for improvement.
- Perform host and operating system hardening, auditing, monitoring, and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals.
- Research and explore emerging security technologies and determine their appropriate use within the company.
- Prepare, document, and create standard operating procedures and protocols, and cross-train and mentor other team members as needed.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining enterprise security tools.
- Minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering.
- 5+ years of successfully implementing advanced cyber security technology in a complex environment.
- Experience engineering and administering security platforms including SIEM/SOAR systems, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, anomaly detection, and cloud analysis.
- Hands-on technical experience with networking and computing system architectures, specifically their security aspects.
- 5+ years leveraging DevSecOps and secure architecture design principles to develop security capabilities.
- 5+ years of Linux system administration.
- 5+ years of scripting experience using Python or other equivalent languages.
- Thorough understanding of information security principles, techniques, policy frameworks, and best practices.
- Hands-on experience in public cloud infrastructures such as AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
- Minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation technologies (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
Preferred Skills
- Security and cloud certifications are a plus (CISSP, Splunk Admin, AWS Solution Architect).
- Hands-on technical experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and review.
- AI engineering or AI security.
- A mixture of security and systems engineering backgrounds.
Workplace
- Must work a hybrid model (3 days onsite) out of the Silver Spring, DC, or Atlanta office.
Salary
- Actual salaries will vary based on job-related factors including geographic location, external market data, internal equity, skill set, experience, training, education, and/or performance.
- Base pay is one component of the total compensation package; other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.
Benefits & Perks
- Health insurance coverage.
- Employee wellness program.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
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