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Merrick Bank

Senior Security Engineer

Merrick Bank, South Jordan, Utah, United States, 84095


*Position Summary:*

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Seeking a Senior Security Engineer to be a guide and mentor amongst the Security Management and Response (SMR) team. The primary responsibilities include improving, maintaining and building visibility, detection, and response amongst SMR operations, incident response, forensics, threat detection, threat intel integration, and detection engineering. The Senior Security Engineer will also work diligently with our MSSP to improve, integrate, build and maintain visibility, detection, and response processes.

The ideal candidate will be proficient in using a variety of security tools to support these responsibilities. This role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

*Essential Functions:** Guide and mentor the Security Management and Response (SMR) team: Provide guidance and mentorship in investigations and daily operations, ensuring effective monitoring, detection and response to security events and complex attacks* Engineer: Champion and innovate engineering efforts to enhance visibility, detection, and response processes within the team, the financial institution, and with the MSSP* Incident Response: Develop and implement incident response plans, offer guidance during security events, and coordinate with relevant teams to acknowledge, contain, mitigate, and resolve security incidents.* Tool Management: Utilize and manage Security Event and Information Management (SEIM) and various assigned security tools* Provide Guidance: Support and assist other teams in configuring tools to support operations related to security processes and systems, ensuring the protection of data, customers, and computer systems* Collaborate: Work closely with security and other teams to collaborate, maintain, streamline, and build processes* Task Management: Prioritize and complete assigned tasks, ensuring timely and efficient completion of security-related activities* Reporting: Utilize issue and project management software to report progress and provide management status based on designed sprints and assigned tasks* Learn: Continuously learn and convey methods to identify and detect new attacks, and use that knowledge to upskill others and identify gaps in existing controls

*Compliance with Laws & Regulations: ** Responsible for complying with policies and procedures* Responsible for understanding and complying with all laws and regulations* Responsible for communicating problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, noncompliance with laws and regulations, policy violations, or illegal acts

*Education and Experience:** Six(6) years of work experience insecurity monitoring and incident response, cybersecurity engineering, and network/systems administration required.* Bachelor’s degree in computer or cybersecurity-related studies, or equivalent broad experience required, six(6) years of related and equivalent experience accepted in lieu of education requirement.* GIAC, OffSec, ISC2, or other recognized certifications are also desirable

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*Summary of Qualifications:** Experience as a security engineer or IT (Information Technology) systems engineer is preferred* Familiarity with highly regulated industries, and specifically the financial industry (including FDIC regulations) is preferred.* Security project or team experience, preferably with experience in security engineering functions.* Demonstrated history and ongoing effective performance with security architecture, engineering, investigation, & remediation capabilities* Demonstrated ability in engineering, detection engineering, tuning, and operating security tools* Demonstrated skills with security concepts, defense-in-depth strategies, security tools, and protocols* Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate security events, risks, and incidents to people with technical and non-technical backgrounds* Outstanding troubleshooting and problem-solving skills* Demonstrated ability to investigate complex security, hardware, and network systems* “White hat” mentality, with a healthy sense of paranoia (security awareness and risk)* Positive, inquisitive, can-do attitude* Self-starter, requires minimal oversight to perform as expected, work well independently and as part of a team* Comfortably perform well under pressure, deliver to commitments on tight deadlines* Meticulous attention to detail* Passion for cybersecurity and technology trends, news, and hacking techniques

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $107,000.00 per year

Benefits:* 401(k)* Dental insurance* Health insuranceCompensation Package:* Yearly bonusSchedule:* 8 hour shift* Day shift* Monday to Friday

Experience:* Cybersecurity: 6 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:* South Jordan, UT 84095 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in South Jordan, UT 84095