Lead Information Security Engineer

Lead Information Security Engineer at Lumen in Boise, Idaho, United States Job Description About Lumen Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about Lumen's network, edge cloud, security and communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at , LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Legal Statement In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. The Role Lumen's Black Lotus Labs is seeking a Linux Information Security Engineer and join our US-based Information Security / Big Data team. This small team of passionate security researchers works on vast, unique information security related data sets using our distributed computing cluster. The team is looking for a knowledgeable Linux admin with a passion for learning, running distributed systems, and an interest in the security domain. This is a team of people that love to be creative, learn new things, and innovate using their expertise to make an impact in the information security world. If you enjoy being at the cutting edge of technology and making the Internet a safer place, then this is the job for you. This position will work within the platform and infrastructure of Black Lotus Labs, supporting the ongoing operations of a big data infrastructure that is used to ingest, parse, store, and analyze cyber threats, as well as supporting the operations of other systems to facilitate cyber security research and analysis. The work effort of the role is focused on the ongoing operational support of on-premises and cloud hosted Linux (Ubuntu) systems that support our Hadoop ecosystem (HBase, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, etc.), Elasticsearch and Redis clusters, Docker using Docker Swarm, a malware environment, and a network of honeypots. The Main Responsibilities - Manage a compute cluster of 200+ machines - Deploy distributed solutions - Tune and optimize systems - Monitor and contribute to alerting systems - Responding to system alerts - Opening task tracking tickets - Investigating of system resources and processes issues - Maintain system infrastructure - Tune and optimization systems - Adding to the monitoring and alerting systems What We Look For in a Candidate Candidates must have a strong background demonstrating - Knowledge of big data distributed systems like Hadoop - Knowledge of Linux administration - Knowledge of system logging - Knowledge of host networking Highly desired skills, experience, or knowledge will include: - Experience with Linux system usage or administration - Experience with distributed Systems - Experience with Docker and Docker Swarm - Experience with Git repository - Scripting and automation (Bash/Python) of systems - Experience with CI/CD deployment tools - Experience with task tracking software like Jira - Administrating virtual machines on cloud providers - Securing Linux systems and associated applications - Managing system with infrastructure tools like Salt, Bash, Ansible, or Puppet - Administrating ElasticSearch clusters Requisition #: 335397 EEO Statement We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, 'protected statuses'). 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