CYBERSECURITY SENIOR ENGINEER - Endpoint Security

Company: Home Depot
Location: Buda
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

POSITION PURPOSE

Within the walls of The Home Depot, you'll find empowered associates who ideate, build, and implement innovative solutions for the world's largest home improvement retailer.The Senior Systems Engineer for Endpoint Security is a member of the Cybersecurity Architecture and Innovation group, responsible for evaluating the current state of protection capabilities for The Home Depot's network computing environments. This role partners with internal Security and Infrastructure teams to develop solutions that deliver visibility and response capabilities for Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, and the Threat Response teams. They have an in-depth understanding of the technology landscape and provide subject matter expertise, support, and consulting in Endpoint security.Let's change the future of retail together.
MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

10% - Planning & Analysis:
Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives
Drives the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements
Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, and security architectures for products
Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support
Participates in project planning and reporting across multiple efforts

30% - Delivery & Execution:
Drives configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Drives field and corporate roll-outs of technology
Drives the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs

50% - Support & Enablement:
Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure
Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams
Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate
Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions
Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability
Opens and manages vendor problem tickets to resolution
Drives the production of in-house documentation around solutions
Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues
Provides application support for software running in production
Creates scripts and tools that drive automation and enable product teams and end users to move towards self service

10% - Learning:
Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice)
Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

NATURE AND SCOPE
Typically reports to the Systems Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager.
ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
Environment:
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Travel:
Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Additional Environmental Job Requirements: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Additional Minimum Qualifications:
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Education Required:
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Years of Relevant Work Experience: 1 years
Physical Requirements:
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in an Endpoint Security and/or Infrastructure Systems Engineering role
• Proficient on these Endpoint principal areas.
  • EndPoint Protection - Antivirus, HIPS, Host Firewall (Symantec, TrendMicro, McAfee, ATP, Defender), Tripwire
  • EndPoint Detection and Response (EDR) & Threat Hunting - Tanium, CrowdStrike Falcon, FireEye, Carbon Black
  • Operating Platform Depth in Two or More of the following principal areas:
  • Windows clients; Server OS: Linux (all distros), Windows Server; Containers (Kubernetes, Docker); Mobile Platforms (Android, iOS); Cloud Platforms (Google Compute, Azure, AWS), PaaS (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
  • Scripting/programming skills - Intermediate Python, PowerShell, Perl, JavaScript, .NET, API Integration
  • SIEM / Data Integration - Secureonix, Qradar, Splunk, CyberArk, ELK, data pipeline integration (ETL)
  • COTS Security Hardening - Gold Images, Javelin Network, ProofPoint, Exchange Online Protection, Threat Gateways
  • Vulnerability Management - CIS Benchmarks, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 Nexpose, Twistlock, AquaSec-- -- -- --Additional experience in these principal areas are beneficial
    • Network Security / Integration - NGFW (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper), Proxies (F5, NetScaler, Bluecoat), DDOS (Arbor, Akamai Kona & Prolexic)
    • Corporate security training, awareness, and exercises - SANS, Wombat, Cofense
    • Red Team Offensive Security - Kali Linux, Cobalt Strike, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Empire
    • Software Development Security - Shift left methodologies, IBM AppScan, XRay, CheckMarx Codebashing, Veracode, OWASPKnowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
      Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
      Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
      Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
      Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
      Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
      Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
      Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
      Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
      Self-Development: Actively seeing new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
      Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

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