Senior Security Engineer

The Company

Every day, NuHarbor Security improves the cybersecurity of our clients by making it stronger and easier to understand.  Our comprehensive suite of security services, from strategic advising to 24-hour monitoring and management, provide an organizational view of security that is focused on results and recommendations that are valuable for both business and technical leaders.  We’re growing quickly because our clients, and the general market, are looking for these outcomes and for the data it gives them to explain, promote, and justify, their security investment and mission.

The Role

The Senior Security Engineer role serves as the senior level technical engineer within the NuHarbor Engineering team. They are responsible for ensuring that client environments are maintained and developed according to NuHarbor standards and in alignment with both client and NuHarbor expectations. The Senior Security Engineer will be a technical resource for other engineers and is responsible for further development of engineering environments, processes, and training.

What you’ll do

• Lives by the NuHarbor corporate values: Help Clients Win, Always Improve, Protect the House.
• Responsible for advisory and technical support efforts in Splunk, Tenable, and Security orchestration.
• Performs engineering and architecting tasks required to onboard new Managed Services clients.
• Responsible for supporting the transition related to onboarding of Managed Services Clients.
• Performs engineering and architect tasks required to sustain existing Managed Services clients.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and optimize Splunk Enterprise Core and Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Develop Splunk searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards.
• Supports development of advanced security use cases in Splunk Enterprise.
• Troubleshoot SOAR architecture and playbook configurations.
• Develop SOAR playbooks and content.
• Administer and develop client Tenable environments.
• Create and run Tenable scans, reports, and dashboards.
• Perform basic vulnerability analysis and develop recommendations for clients.
• Performs weekly health checks on client environments.
• Develops, implements, and improves upon onboarding and operational processes.
• Works to develop processes to support technologies at the direction of the MS Engineering Management team.
• Supports other service and analyst teams as needed.
• Regularly meet with clients to drive forward engineering objectives.
• Proactively addresses and manages customer issues to help clients win.
• Provides technical direction, leadership and mentoring to junior MS Security Engineers in support of day-to-day operation.
• Provides architectural review and oversight for client operational projects.
• Maintains industry and vendor certifications required to support the Managed Services catalog.
• Works with the Engineering Leadership team to develop new service offerings.
• Performs evaluation of new technologies and develops operational processes to support these technologies at the direction of the MS Operational Engineering Manager.
• Assists in interviewing job candidates applying to the MS Security Engineering team.
• Remains up to date on global threat trends, vertical specific threat trends, new exploits, relevant vulnerabilities, and new zero-days.
• Use your advanced understanding of, and ability to communicate, security technologies to mitigate cyber risks.
• Develops recommendations and enhancements to mature a client’s cybersecurity program.
• Communicates and presents to executive level client stakeholders.
• Required to participate in 24x7 rotation.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by Engineering Leadership. 

Your foundation.  The requirements for this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) or more years in the Information Technology field.
  • Typical Degrees: Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or related field(s).
    • In lieu of a degree, two (2) years of experience in a related technology field and relevant industry certifications are
  • Three (3) or more years of experience should have been directly administering Splunk environments.
• Strong Linux and Windows proficiency.
• Strong understanding of security concepts and operations.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and architecture.
• Experience with data visualization tools and strong analytical skills.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security for 3 or more years.
• Experience with SOAR technologies.
• Experience with vulnerability management technologies.
• Experience PowerShell and Bash scripting.
• Experience with Python Scripting.
• Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, and/or Consultant.
• Must be a citizen of the United States.

Additional capabilities that will differentiate you for this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree and seven (7) or more years in the Information Technology field.
• Experience supporting security operations.
• Passion for security and customer service.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to make complex subjects understandable.
• Demonstrated ability to gain trust, collaborate and achieve shared objective.
• The drive to be successful and perform well in all aspects of your operational and strategic work.
• Has the flexibility to manage several projects and balance and prioritize work.
• A conversational understanding of security operations and cybersecurity.
• Exhibits an understanding of how business work and the impact of decisions on business results.

The Rewards

What you can expect:

• The engagement and support of company leadership who recognize the challenge of marketing a complex cybersecurity service in a chaotic market.
• An organization that recognizes and rewards employee commitment and contribution to our customers’ satisfaction and success
• Growth in your career and capabilities as you help to chart a path to improving customer interactivity and service adoption.
• A collaborative and driven working environment in a rapidly growing company and market
• A fun and social working environment where you are encouraged to be your true self.

You can also expect competitive salary and benefits, including paid time to give back in your community and generous PTO.

We are purpose driven. We, as an organization, above anything else protect the house first and then help our customers win.  If this sounds like the kind of organization you’d like to be a part of, we‘d like to hear from you.

AAP/EEO Statement

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of NuHarbor Security is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. NuHarbor Security hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

NuHarbor Security believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.  We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.