SaaS Security Engineer

Summary

Join GuidePoint Security as a SaaS Security Engineer and be responsible for assessing, identifying, and implementing security requirements for various customer SaaS tenants and SaaS security tooling. Develop SaaS security strategies that integrate with third-party vendor risk programs and business requirements. Evaluate existing SaaS security configurations and integrations and recommend improvements. Support will span both SaaS-specific security configurations and SaaS security tooling setup and configuration. Collaborate with SaaS team members to provide secure configurations within the SaaS or SaaS security tooling environments. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise SaaS administration or SaaS Security in medium to large companies and a strong understanding of SaaS technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends. GuidePoint offers a remote-work environment (primarily U.S. based) with various benefits including group medical and dental insurance, flexible time off, a retirement plan, and more.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise SaaS administration or SaaS Security in medium to large companies
• Strong understanding of SaaS technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Experience with SaaS and cloud security, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and disaster recovery best practices
• Strong troubleshooting skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to solve technical, managerial, or operational problems and evaluate options based on relevant information, resources, well-rounded experience, and knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, and lead presentations, training courses, and effective working sessions

Responsibilities

• Engineering or administration of SaaS environments with a security first perspective
• Collaborate with IT and SaaS security teams to implement and secure SaaS tenants, resources, configure security policies, standards, and best practices
• Implement scalable and resilient SaaS solutions within SaaS platforms
• Introduce SaaS security tooling as part of an overall SaaS Security Program using tools such as SSPM platforms
• Assess, implement, or recommend secure usage of SaaS API and integrations
• Ensure SaaS tenants, applications, and data meet high availability design principles to meet organizational requirements for disaster and business recovery
• Analyze and ensure that proper monitoring and alerting systems are in place for tenants, services, and integrations
• Evaluate and recommend SaaS platforms and SaaS security tooling based on business requirements and industry best practices
• Collaborate with software developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to integrate SaaS security tooling solutions into either new, or existing systems and tenants
• Stays current with emerging SaaS security platforms and trends to advise on the adoption of new SaaS security tooling features and services
• Works closely with development teams to support DevOps practices and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Leads technical discussions and presentations for internal teams as well as customers
• Consistently produces work products in conformance with GuidePoint Security standards
• Approaches problem solving collectively with senior staff and internal and external clients to achieve a mutually beneficial result
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required

Preferred Qualifications

Professional certification in Salesforce administration, ServiceNow, Workday, or similar preferred

Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option