Senior Security Data Engineer

Truist; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Vacation and sick days

Paid holidays

Job summary

Truist is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and implement advanced cybersecurity data solutions across diverse IT environments. You will drive data acquisition, analysis, and automation to identify risks and support incident response.

The role requires 7+ years in security engineering, deep cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with threat modeling and lifecycle security practices. Collaboration with product, engineering, and operations is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements advanced cybersecurity data solutions that identify risks and guide response and security assurance efforts.
• Performs and enhances data acquisition and analysis to uncover and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates data from various information security technologies across environments, defining automatable scenarios and processes.
• Serves as a key technical escalation point for challenging security data issues, diagnosing recurring problems and creating reusable solutions.
• Assesses emerging security threats, tools, and architectural options, and provides recommendations shaping plans and goals.
• Collaborates with product, engineering and operations teams to apply modern security practices in the security development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications.
• Leads major incident response and forensic activities, coordinating tasks and improving playbooks.
• Provides guidance and training to other security engineers to raise team capability.

Skills

Security engineering

Lifecycle security

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/SE

Tools

Azure Data Explorer

.NET

Job description

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Designs and develops advanced technical cybersecurity data and analytics capabilities across both uniform and bespoke corporate information technology environments. Plans, builds, enhances and evangelizes cybersecurity data technologies by building, feeding and supporting data analytics capabilities in order to drive security response and major positive security impact. Drives maturity across the security algebras; elevates others to think in aggregates, graphs, and vectors over tables.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designs and implements advanced cybersecurity data solutions that identify risks and guide both response and security assurance efforts.
• Performs and enhances data acquisition and analysis to uncover and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates data from various information security technologies in various environments, defining and improving automatable scenarios, and processes.
• Serves as a key technical point of escalation for challenging security data issues, diagnosing recurring problems and creating reusable solutions that improve how the organization consumes security data.
• Assesses emerging security threats, tools, and architectural options, and provides recommendations that shape technical plans, priorities, and goals for the job area.
• Collaborates with product, engineering and operations teams to apply modern security practices in all stages of the security development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications in the area of responsibility, contributing to approaches that support regulatory and policy compliance.
• Leads the technical execution of major incident response and forensic activities within the job area, coordinating tasks, leveraging tooling effectively, and suggesting improvements to playbooks and processes.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and technical training to other security engineers, hosting reviews and sharing best practices that elevate team capability.
• Lowers the bar to entry for data excellence across the organization by enablement, evangelization, education, and smart design.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).
• Experience with security tooling and cloud-scale data systems such as Azure Data Explorer and accompanying cloud services.
• Role will involve supporting non-customer facing .NET based services.
• Familiarity with emerging cybersecurity technologies, industry trends, and strategic risk management.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation

• All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.
• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.
• As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

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