Senior DLP & Data Protection Engineer

American Electric Power; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 88,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power seeks a DLP Engineer to protect sensitive data through monitoring, configuration, investigation, and response. The role develops, tests, and implements data protection strategies and policies, with duties including software deployment and remediation.

On-call rotation and cross-team collaboration are required. The position emphasizes policy adherence, regulatory compliance, and data confidentiality, with involvement in data loss events and incident response across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.
• Experience in data loss prevention, endpoint protection and data classification is expected.
• Knowledge of policy and regulation compliance with NERC CIP, SOX, Privacy, and PII is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and protect data through DLP strategies and policies.
• Deploy and remediate data protection software.
• Support on-call rotation and incident response.
• Create, test, and implement data protection policies.
• Coordinate with Security and Technology teams on data protection initiatives.
• Respond to data loss events and perform investigations.
• Maintain compliance with relevant regulations and standards.

Skills

DLP

Data Loss Prevention

Policy and regulation

Endpoint protection

Windows Active Directory

UNIX/Linux cmd line

TCP/IP

Python/PowerShell/Bash/Perl

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

American Electric Power seeks a DLP Engineer to protect sensitive data through monitoring, configuration, investigation, and response. The role develops, tests, and implements data protection strategies and policies, with duties including software deployment and remediation.

On-call rotation and cross-team collaboration are required. The position emphasizes policy adherence, regulatory compliance, and data confidentiality, with involvement in data loss events and incident response across