Client Platforms Security Engineer

P2P; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive employee benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

401k with employer match

Job summary

P2P is seeking a Client Platforms Security Engineer based in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, you will work with the security team to ensure the protection of client platform infrastructure by engineering and maintaining security controls. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and extensive experience in Cybersecurity engineering while managing client OS platforms.

You will be responsible for assessing risks, implementing security measures, and coordinating updates across various platforms, ensuring the integrity of the organization's security framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Experience maintaining client OS platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS).
• Deep technical understanding of client OS platforms.
• Strong experience in Cybersecurity engineering.

Responsibilities

• Maintain security tools and their configurations.
• Manage updates of tools when new versions are released.
• Identify solutions in the market and test viability.
• Assess risk in client platform environment.
• Identify process improvements for automation of security checks.

Skills

Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Scripting/Development experience

Experience maintaining client OS platforms

Understanding of network fundamentals and protocols

Deep technical understanding of client OS platforms

Experience with endpoint security suites and frameworks

Experience in Cybersecurity engineering

Experience with leading SOAR and SIEM solutions

Education

Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience

Tools

CrowdStrike

Sentinel One

Carbon Black App Control

Qualys

Job description

Client Platforms Security Engineer

We are seeking a Client Platforms Security Engineer to work with the members of the security team to ensure that our client platform infrastructure, virtual or physical, is properly protected. You will engineer, maintain and implement security controls, audit configurations in a hybrid compute environment, generally ensuring we are reducing risk footprint across the infrastructure without impacting its effectiveness. A successful candidate will have an attention to detail, the ability to understand what impact their changes will have on the business teams and the services they use.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain security tools and their associated configurations
• Manage and coordinate updates of tools when new versions are released
• Working with platform teams to deploy tools and changes as necessary after validating necessary performance and functionality requirements
• Identify solutions in the market and test them to see if they prove viable for our environment and use case
• Work with the platform teams to ensure the OS builds are as hardened to the extent they can be
• Identify and document ways to measure effectiveness of the client platform controls
• Assess risk in our client platform environment and provide mitigations for those risks
• Identify process improvements for automation of security hardening checks on client platforms
• Work with the operation teams internal and external to ensure identified risks are triaged, investigated, and remediated as necessary

What we’re looking for:

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required
• Scripting/Development experience in any high-level language with the desire to build upon that repertoire
• Experience maintaining client OS platforms (e.g Windows, Linux, MacOS) in a physical and virtual world.
• Understanding of network fundamentals and protocols.
• Deep technical understanding of client OS platforms (e.g Windows, Linux, MacOS). Mobile OS platforms a plus (e.g. iOS, Android, etc)
• Experience with endpoint security suites and frameworks (e.g. Anti-Virus, EDR/XDR, execution flow control, etc)
• Strong, demonstrable experience in Cybersecurity engineering, design, implementation and documentation
• Experience with leading SOAR and SIEM solutions

Bonus Points For:

• Experience managing platforms like CrowdStrike, Sentinel One, or Carbon Black App Control
• Experience working with Qualys and a general understanding of vulnerability management processes
• Experience scripting with languages like Python, Powershell, and the Linux Shell

The annual base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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