Security Engineer

Concero; Missouri; On-site; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Concero is seeking an Information Security Engineer Contractor to support the development, implementation, and monitoring activities that protect IT systems, services, and capabilities. You will collaborate with the Security Engineering team on impactful projects and assist in incident response while maintaining lessons learned.

You will design and maintain security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and cloud environments, translating requirements into practical configurations

Qualifications

• 3+ years of information technology experience required, 3+ years Security experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience configuring or integrating identity, endpoint, email, network, or cloud security controls in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting enterprise security controls.

Responsibilities

• Support development, implementation, and monitoring activities protecting IT systems.
• Work with Security Engineering on impactful security projects.
• Assist in incident response and post-incident lessons.
• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across identity, endpoints, email, network, and cloud.
• Deliver engineering work from requirements through testing, rollout, and handoff; manage changes.
• Engineer and validate integrations among security platforms and enterprise systems.

Skills

Security incident response

Windows administration

Enterprise security controls

SIEM workflows

Identity security

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Carbon Black Protect

Zscaler

Azure AD / Entra ID

SIEM

Job description

The Information Security Engineer Contractor will perform skilled work supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring activities designed to protect IT systems, services, and capabilities.

• Work with the Security Engineering team on impactful Security projects
• Involvement as needed in incident response and maintaining lessons learned/action items
• Collaborate with other IT teams on Security Project efforts
• Stay updated on the latest security threats, technologies, and industry trends, and provide recommendations for improving security posture
• Ability to create and track relevant metrics for continuous improvement
• Assist with general tuning of tools and troubleshooting break/fix related to tools
• Creating and updating documentation as needed
• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and cloud environments, translating security requirements into technical configurations.
• Deliver assigned engineering work from requirements and design through testing, rollout, and operational handoff; coordinate change control and rollback planning.
• Engineer and validate integrations among security platforms and enterprise systems, including identity, endpoint, and SIEM/logging workflows.
• Assess security configuration gaps, prioritize remediation with system owners, and verify that corrective changes address the identified risk.
• Create and maintain engineering artifacts such as technical designs, configuration records, test evidence, and operational handoff documentation.

The candidate will be working with various security tools and vendors:

Microsoft Suite - Azure/Entra ID/O365, Zscaler, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Carbon Black Protect, SIEM tools, Email Security tools, Identity Security tools

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of information technology experience required, 3+ years Security experience preferred
• Good hands-on knowledge of Windows workstations and/or servers
• Experience with IT Infrastructure components
• Experience with security concepts and tools
• Security+ Certification or better preferred
• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting enterprise security controls.
• Hands-on experience configuring or integrating identity, endpoint, email, network, or cloud security controls in an enterprise environment.
• Experience troubleshooting security platform integrations, including identity, event/log data, or SIEM workflows.

Skills required:

High level of professionalism

• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proficient, or able to gain proficiency with, a broad array of security software applications and tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently
• Ability to work independently and/or as a team to meet delivery deadlines
• Organized with attention to detail
• Ability to translate security requirements into practical technical designs and implementation steps, then validate control effectiveness.
• Able to manage assigned engineering work independently, communicate technical risks and dependencies, and coordinate changes with partner teams.