Full-Time

Lead Security Administrator

Posted on 10/1/2025

Hearst

Hearst

5,001-10,000 employees

Global media and information services conglomerate

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Louisville, KY, USA + 1 more

More locations: Dallas, TX, USA

In Person

Category
IT & Security (2)
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Required Skills
Splunk
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • 2+ years Security team lead experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related (equivalent experience considered).
  • Experience managing a team of security administrators/operators
  • 4+ years’ experience in 24x7 production environments.
  • Demonstrated experience with Splunk Core, Splunk Enterprise Security.
  • Experience with event and incident handling
  • Experience working in a regulated industry such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Strong written and verbal interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail and driving issues to resolution.
  • Strong customer focus, ownership, bias for action and the ability to dive deep.
  • Excellent ability to align business processes and requirements with a technical implementation focus.
  • Support compliance program including being able to create artifacts.
  • Write and contribute to project plans, features, and engineering / architecture level documentation.
  • Experience designing and management large-scale distributed systems.
  • Operations and management of platforms used within Security Operations including but not limited to Cortex, Splunk ES, and CyberArk.
  • Root cause analysis that can be presented to technical and Executive audiences.
  • Proficient in the detection, response, mitigation, and/or reporting of cyber threats.
  • Proficient with NTLM and Kerberos authentication protocols, administration, and hardening.
  • Network/Server security attack mitigation.
  • Collaborating with cross function teams.
  • Windows/Linux security/administration knowledge.
  • Experience with load balancers such as NetScaler, F5, and Azure load balancers.
  • Inventory management of all network devices.
  • Creates and maintains documentation to support policies, procedures, and runbooks.
  • Design systems management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarms and human intervention.
  • Develop appropriate metrics and monitors to ensure operational excellence for services being supported. Aligning monitoring to SLA requirements.
  • Working with internal teams to secure assets.
  • Knowledge of CyberArk platform or similar product.
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Math or related (equivalent experience considered).
  • Candidates with relevant certifications are preferred, including but not limited to the following: Security analysis, Security management/architecture, Security engineering, Information security auditing, Certifications in Splunk, Certifications related to ITIL/ITSM
  • This position does not provide sponsorship. All applicants should either be US Citizens or Permanent Residents eligible to work in the US without immigration restrictions.
Responsibilities
  • Act as a technical leader/people, subject matter expert and point of escalation while providing technical direction to team-members and evangelize best practices and methodologies.
  • Act in a Product Owner role for the team, aligning priorities to the strategy.
  • Management of Professional Service engagements and other staff augmentation options.
  • Support the company journey of moving to modern cloud operations.
  • Stay current on security trends and integrated technologies.
  • Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation and runbooks for new toolsets and processes.
  • Cultivate strong working relationships with scrum teams, engineers, architects, vendors, contractors, and leadership.
  • Leverage, support, and advocate the use of configuration management tools for infrastructure in a hybrid cloud model.
  • Align system capabilities to overall solution and business strategy.
  • IT Service Management fulfiller including incident, problem, and change.
  • Recommend and implement software, tools, or solutions to enhance security posture.
  • Available outside of business hours to respond to high priority escalations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Security work experience in a healthcare context dealing with HiTrust (desired).
  • Certifications in Splunk
  • Certifications related to ITIL\ITSM

Hearst is a global, diversified media, information, and services group with magazines, newspapers, TV and radio stations, and business information companies. It earns revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and selling information services, delivering content across print, broadcast, and digital platforms, including Fitch Ratings for credit ratings and research. Its mix of traditional media brands with specialized data and analytics services sets it apart from firms that focus on a single area. Its goal is to be a leading worldwide provider of trusted media content and data-driven information services for individual consumers and business customers.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1887

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What believers are saying

  • Acquired MotorTrend Group expanding automotive content.
  • $200M AI investment automates content and analytics.
  • HearstLab funds women-led tech like PartySlate.

What critics are saying

  • SEC fines Fitch Ratings eroding market share March 2026.
  • Print ad collapse forces Cosmopolitan asset sales Feb 2026.
  • DOJ antitrust lawsuit mandates First Databank divestitures Oct 2025.

What makes Hearst unique

  • Owns Fitch Ratings as global credit ratings leader.
  • B2B services generate over 50% profits in 2024.
  • Controls 33 TV stations reaching 19% U.S. viewers.

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Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

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Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Emotional Wellness Support

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