Cybersecurity Endpoint Engineering

American Electric Power; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power is seeking a Cybersecurity Technical Specialist – Proxy Engineer to serve as technical lead for secure web gateway and web security services.

The role combines engineering and operations, focusing on design, administration, and continuous improvement of web access security. You will partner with cybersecurity, identity, cloud, networking, and operations teams to deliver secure, reliable internet access across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise secure web gateway technologies and associated infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and manage web access security policies, URL filtering controls, traffic inspection policies, and user access restrictions.

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for moderate-scale security assignments with limited direction from senior team members. Develops and maintains necessary documentation of security systems, projects, and/or processes to ensure unified understanding of system details. Performs and analyzes security controls assessments (internal and third party) through application security testing, penetration testing or other means to ensure controls effectiveness. Identifies and documents potential mitigations/remediations and creates reports of findings with identified risk response. Participates in the review, evaluation, and recommendation of emerging security technologies. More involved in advanced level implementation, support, and/or usage of technical solutions. Assists with problem solving, decision-making, and functional area knowledge.

Job Description

The Cybersecurity Technical Specialist – Proxy Engineer serves as the technical lead and subject matter expert for the organization’s secure web gateway and web security services. This role is responsible for the design, administration, support, and continuous improvement of secure internet access technologies that protect enterprise users, applications, and data from web-based threats. The position combines engineering and operational responsibilities, including platform administration, policy management, incident response, troubleshooting, service optimization, and security control implementation. The successful candidate will partner closely with cybersecurity, identity, cloud, networking, endpoint, and operations teams to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant web access services across the enterprise.

What you’ll do:

Essential Job Functions & Tasks

Secure Web Gateway Administration

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise secure web gateway technologies and associated infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and manage web access security policies, URL filtering controls, traffic inspection policies, and user access restrictions.