Security Engineer

JCPenney; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 88,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

JCPenney in Gaithersburg, MD seeks a mid-level Security Engineer to freelance on CEH and Identity and Access Management initiatives. You will work across incident response, architecture, and leadership features to strengthen defenses while contributing to a flexible, fast-moving tech roadmap.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, present to a MD-wide audience, and help patch vulnerabilities before they become incidents, all within a dynamic Gaithersburg operation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of CEH experience.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams.
• Comfort presenting to a MD-wide audience.

Responsibilities

• Keep JCPenney's Analytical Thinking dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Drive the Endpoint Detection and Response incident postmortem to stop outages.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging EDR and IAM.
• Ship leadership features that advance the technology roadmap.

Skills

Leadership

Identity and Access Management

Firewall Configuration

Cross-functional teamwork

Public speaking

Job description

Pour CEH and Identity and Access Management into work that survives contact with real traffic, and you'll fit right in as our mid-level Security Engineer in Gaithersburg. Boiled down: freelance, $88,000 - $125,000, 5 years of CEH, and a seat at the table where JCPenney decisions get made.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep JCPenney's Analytical Thinking dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Drive the Endpoint Detection and Response incident postmortem that stops the Gaithersburg outage from recurring
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Endpoint Detection and Response and Analytical Thinking
• Ship the fast-paced Leadership features that move JCPenney's technology roadmap forward

What You'll Bring

• Mid-level fluency in Leadership, with Identity and Access Management on your roadmap
• Comfort with the freelance cadence of a Gaithersburg-based operation
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity
• Equal parts Identity and Access Management depth and Firewall Configuration curiosity
• Comfort presenting to a MD-wide audience without a script

JCPenney spent 3 years in the trenches of technology so its clients across Gaithersburg, MD wouldn't have to. Slack threads here stay civil because we critique the Data Loss Prevention work, not the human behind it.

Come for $88,000 - $125,000, stay for the mentorship, the benefits, and the rare flexibility that makes JCPenney a proudly-imperfect place to grow.

We bumped this posting hours ago because the role is still very much open.