Associate Security Engineer

Summary

Join ScienceLogic's collaborative team as a Security Expert, contributing to the security, integrity, and availability of organizational data. You will design and implement security systems, assess risk, track security violations, and collaborate with internal and external auditors. Responsibilities include conducting vulnerability scans, monitoring security operations, investigating security breaches, and improving patch management procedures. This early career position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, problem-solving skills, and strong communication abilities. ScienceLogic offers a remote-first culture, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Problem solving skills complemented with experience in solving information security device and application issues with customers
• Good verbal and written communication skills as well as attention to detail
• Exceptional customer service skills and interpersonal skills. Ability to work in small teams
• Understanding of threat agents, attack vectors, and attack patterns as well as compensating controls and design patterns needed to mitigate risk
• Ability to create technical documentation and diagrams using Microsoft Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of single sign-on integration with on premise and cloud toolset
• U.S. citizenship

Responsibilities

• Conduct platform or operating system vulnerability scans that assess exposure of system to attacks or hacking
• Monitor Security Operations pager and respond to issues of potential viral activity, spam, phishing
• Administer controls and review their application to ensure that system's controls, policies, and procedures are operating effectively relative to the predicted effectiveness of the controls
• Investigate events or incidents of apparent security breaches and report to appropriate authorities using corporate procedures
• Confer and collaborate with internal and external auditors to ensure that appropriate controls are installed, operating properly, and being monitored and reported
• May plan and/or conduct tests of the core infrastructure and the contingency environment for critical business applications to ensure business continuity in the event of a computer security incident
• Aggregate metrics of operation of security controls, as well as apparent attacks, breaches, and other pertinent data; track trends and prepare for periodic security reports
• Measure and improve patch management procedures with appropriate teams
• Participate in projects designed to test defenses against hacking, denial of service, spam, break-ins, or similar attacks. May provide guidance to infrastructure or application staff participating in exercise
• Examine and/or test new methodologies or tools that could be adopted to enhance security of platforms, infrastructure, or access to data

Preferred Qualifications

• Security+
• AssociateCISSP
• AssociateSSCP
• Associate CCSP
• OS/Linux/WINDOWS/MAC
• Directory Services
• Microsoft Office
• Network Protocols
• Scripting Languages (Python/Bash/PowerShell)

Benefits

• A remote-first culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energize
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization
• 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical
• Paid parental leave
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages, and catered lunch on Thursdays
• Regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!