IT Security Engineer

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States; office environment

Company

hirify.global Corporation operates in the energy and utility sector.

What you will do

• Manage the SIEM environment, including agent installation, alert and rule configuration, reporting, and system health.
• Analyze network traffic, logs, and incidents from multiple sources to assess severity and risk.
• Identify, investigate, report, and resolve security incidents while coordinating the required response resources.
• Deploy and maintain network security controls, compose security alerts, and advise incident responders.
• Develop incident metrics, trend analyses, and tuning initiatives to reduce false positives.
• Write scripts and programs to automate security triage and support coordination between users, IT engineering, and security operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field and four years of related information security experience, or equivalent.
• Experience with CIRT, CERT, CSIRC, or SOC operations and security incident response.
• Experience with SIEM, antivirus, intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, vulnerability assessment, vulnerability management, and log monitoring tools.
• Shell scripting with Unix tools and Python; familiarity with operating systems, networking, TCP/IP, LDAP, 802.1x, SNMP, SSL, TLS, and IPSEC.
• Knowledge of PCAP analysis, digital forensics, forensic tools such as Volatility or EnCase, the Lockheed kill chain, and NIST.
• Availability to respond to emergency security incidents outside normal business hours.

Nice to have

• Professional security certification such as CEH, CISSP, SSCP, or GIAC.
• Experience with PCI compliance, government agencies, digital media analysis, or computer forensics.
• Knowledge of LogRhythm or comparable SIEM technologies and scripting with PowerShell or Bash.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work environment.
• Regular communication with internal and external customers and senior management on technical and complex security matters.
• Opportunity to participate in contracted security monitoring and analytical services with external vendors.