CyberSecurity Engineer

American Recruiting & Consulting Group
Summary
Join ARC Group as a Cybersecurity Engineer (IAM) in a fully remote position working Eastern Time zone business hours. This contract role, extending through June 2025 with potential for extension or conversion to full-time employment, offers significant career growth within a well-respected organization. As a Cybersecurity Architect, you will advise on best practices, design and implement security strategies, and ensure enterprise IT architecture is secure and valuable. You will be responsible for due diligence, security monitoring, and maintaining security standards. The role involves participation in governance processes, project teams, and technology selection, as well as maintaining documentation and troubleshooting issues. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and a CISSP certification (within 180 days if converted to FTE).
Requirements
- 4+ years related work experience (Progressive work experience in security technology design, architectures, development and/or monitoring )
- Related Bachelorβs degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field or equivalent work experience
- CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof (within 180 Days if converted to FTE)
Responsibilities
- Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls
- Responsible for establishment, implementation and maintenance of security standards that guide the design of technology solutions
- Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting
- Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs
- Participates in governance processes to ensure consistent technology life cycle management
- Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles
- Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups
- Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to technology vision, opportunities and challenges
- Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options
- Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints
- Evaluates strengths and flaws in security architecture including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership
- Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions
- Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution
- Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects
- Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares benchmarking reports and presentations
- Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers
- Ability to articulate complex solutions which are comprehensive to the target audience (e.g. technical vs. non-technical)
- Aptitude to identify, analyze and rationalize risks to ensure decisions made are in the best interest of the business, staff and its customers
- Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 or more years of work experience designing security architecture on progressively complex IT projects preferred
- 2 or more years of cloud security experience
- Identity and Access Management experience with employee and consumer identity security
- Health care industry related experience is preferred
- Experience using Agile methodology