Senior Security Engineer @ Allied Solutions

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The Senior Security Engineer serves as a senior technical expert responsible for driving secure system design, managing security platform integrations, and leading security operations engineering efforts across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure. This role oversees complex implementations of security tooling, proactively identifies risk areas, and mentors junior staff while collaborating with architecture, compliance, and risk teams. This established professional works under limited supervision.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Security Engineering and Platform Implementation (40%):

Leads the implementation of secure system architectures for security platform integrations across hybrid environments.
Plans and oversees upgrades, integrations, and migrations of enterprise security technologies.
Builds and implements advanced automation using scripting and orchestration tools to enforce security policies at scale.
Integrates security controls into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment processes.
Acts as SME on secure image creation for operating systems, middleware, and application environments.
Optimizes monitoring pipelines to ensure visibility across infrastructure components and security platforms.

Platform Governance, Compliance and Baseline Enforcement (25%):

Enforces and continuously improves system hardening standards based on CIS, NIST, and organizational policies.
Aids in design reviews of infrastructure changes to ensure alignment with security baselines.
Partners with compliance teams to ensure security platform configurations align to regulatory frameworks.
Supports risk assessments and provides technical leadership during external audits and security assessments.
Participates in security governance boards to recommend platform improvements and policy refinements.

Subject Matter Expertise and Technical Operations (20%):

Serves as SME for security tools such as privileged access management, endpoint control, vulnerability management, and identity platforms.
Serves as escalation point for complex technical troubleshooting across security platforms.
Evaluates task processes, recommends enhancements, and leads process standardization for security platform operations.

Mentorship, Training, and Team Support (15%):

Mentors junior and mid-level engineers across platform operations, hardening, and engineering projects.
Provides assistance and training to lower-level employees.
Works independently on moderately complex projects/assignments and sets objectives or goals of projects and assignments within team.

Qualifications (Education, Experience, Certifications & KSA):

Bachelor’s degree required.
Master’s degree preferred.
5-7 years of directly related work experience required.
SANS 400-500 level courses.
AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect certification.
CISSP, CRISC.
Advanced Vendor-specific security platform certifications.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job.

We offer our employees a robust compensation package! Our comprehensive benefits include: medical, dental and vision insurance coverage; 100% company-paid life and disability coverage, 401k options with company match, three weeks PTO by the end of the first year and much more. Allied proudly promotes from within as part of a strong commitment to providing career growth opportunities for employees of all levels. Our diverse business portfolio allows employees broad career options with the advantage of staying with the same organization.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Senior Security Engineer

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