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Principal Cybersecurity Engineer ( Platform Engineering )

Discover, Greendale, Wisconsin, United States, 53129


Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Discover bank offers online banking, reward credit cards, home equity loans, student loans, and personal loans to help meet your financial needs.With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. We want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies.Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.Job Description:

What You’ll Do:Responsibility of the role is to design the Cybersecurity engineering roadmap, and deliver highly-complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. Drive Cybersecurity engineering solutions, framework, roadmap, program optimization, process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture by introducing technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps and systems design. Actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.How You’ll Do It:Acts as the principal advisor to upper management in Cybersecurity matters. Ensures security improvement designs are evaluated, validated, and implemented as required. Performs cyber platform incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact; identifying and certifying that protection and detection capabilities are acquired or developed, and maintained using the Cybersecurity engineering approach and are consistent with organization-level cybersecurity architecture and service agreements.Explores and assesses the latest technology trends, disruptions and security/IT service business models to ensure Business Technology maintains, and improves, organization cyber competitive edge.Works closely with management to define and promote the strategic direction of the team. Provides strong leadership and direction to team members. Provides subject matter expertise across all Cybersecurity technologies. Creates and maintains Cybersecurity technology roadmap. Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners, and external partners.Qualifications You’ll Need:

The Basics:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.6+ years of experience in Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related fields.Physical and Cognitive Requirements:The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing? Primarily remain in a stationary position.Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job? Occasionally move about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities.Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? Ability to transport physical objects up to 10 pounds.Primarily, where is this job performed? Primarily performed indoors in an office.Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone.Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.Does the job require travel? Travel up to 10% of the time.Does this role require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job? No.Bonus Points If You Have:5-7 years of experience in an engineering or security-related role.Exceptional organizational abilities and attention to detail.Demonstrated ability to lead small-to-medium scale team initiatives.Demonstrated ability to design and deploy elegant solutions and tooling with minimal oversight.Advanced level of knowledge with big data platforms (Splunk, Hadoop, Elastic stack, etc.).Advanced level of knowledge with automating workloads (Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, etc.).Advanced level of knowledge with the maintenance and deployment of workloads on Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Demonstrated ability to coach/mentor junior team members from a technical perspective.Experience in leading large-scale projects.Hands-on experience with common security technologies (SIEM, IDS, Firewall, WAF, etc.).Proficient knowledge of common security threats, attack vectors, vulnerabilities and exploits.Regular participation and contribution to industry-related groups and events.Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Oct-20-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $104,000.00 to $175,600.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package.Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:Paid Parental LeavePaid Time Off401(k) PlanMedical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings AccountSTD, Life, LTD and AD&DRecognition ProgramEducation AssistanceCommuter BenefitsFamily Support ProgramsEmployee Stock Purchase PlanWhat are you waiting for? Apply today!Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

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