Security Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC
Vortek Systems
Responsibilities
Includes, but not limited to:
- Provide expertise on Security Operations product and services to our customers
- Proactively identify customer needs and requirements through data, customer engagement and other methods to recommend appropriate solutions and drive these solutions through implementation and adoption.
- Engage with internal team members and client stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery
- Stay educated on new product technology, tangential team capabilities, and other specific offerings or programs emerging within our company and within the practice industry
- Identify areas for continued advancement of strategies aligned with Industry direction, client need, practice scope and present solutions to leadership
- Execute services by ensuring client needs and practice obligations are met successfully
- Provide subject matter expertise on Security Operations specific platforms to ensure successful delivery of services to include technologies such as, but not limited to,
- SIEM, UEBA, EDR/EPP, IDS/IPS, and SOAR
- Participate in the development of cross practice training or delegate trainings to team members on practice discipline capability, associated offerings, industry positioning and selling strategies
- Collaborate with peers to develop and optimize cross practice capabilities as appropriate
- Serve as a subject matter expert in maintaining, optimizing, and delivering security engineering solutions
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5+ years client-facing experience working on complex security engineering-based projects and solutions services
- Experience managing complex security technologies and solutions
- Experience managing and reporting on multiple service delivery projects
- Strong fundamental understanding of technical security solutions and how they address customer risk exposure and solve key use cases
- Proven understanding of security services engagements, service team management
- Demonstrated experience building and maturing security operations platforms within enterprise organizations
- Expert knowledge of supported practice focused product and services
- Experience with engineering/deploying SIEM, EDR, and SOAR technologies
- Comprehensive knowledge of detection and response engineering
Required Skills
- Demonstrate a real passion for team technology solutions design and delivery
- Outstanding written and verbal communication and strong ability to build relationships with customers, partners and staff members
- Proactive and self-motivated mindset
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Ability to resolve and close complex technical and selling situations while support competitive selling motions
- Ability to work effectively, add value as a team member
- Ability to train and disseminate information within an area or operation and work effectively within all levels of an organization, both internally and externally
- Ability to influence and lead all aspects of sales cycle and engage appropriate internal and external subject matter experts as needed
- Ability to engage and discuss technical and non-technical concepts and explain complex problems with a wide array of customer audience types including C-Suite, VP/Director,
- Willingness, drive and winning mindset to compete in customer opportunities
- Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to identify value in unstructured situations
- Emotional intelligence, flexible work style, and excellent diplomatic skills across all levels of the organization
- Attention to detail, organization, and follow up skills are critical
- Ability and Initiative to research and resolve problems with a positive attitude Excellent presentation skills and comfortable leading meetings and discussions
- Problem solving skills with the ability to serve as an escalation point and knowledgeable resource and direct resolution while accessing circumstances and current information to make informed and best decision
- Ability to develop and manage mentoring relationship by building trust, setting goals, respecting employees, promoting confidence and keeping the mentoring relationship on track
- Ability to clearly define roles and responsibilities, establish short-and long- term goals, use open and supportive communication, and collaboratively solving problems
Certifications Required
Preferred Certifications:
Industry certifications:
- CISSP
- CIAM
- CISM / CISA / CRISC
- GIAC (GSEC)
Vendor Solutions and product specific certifications or experience (or equivalent):
- Splunk/Securonix/Sumo Logic/Exabeam/Sentinel/QRadar
- Crowdstrike/Sentinel One/Tanium
- XSOAR (PAN)/Phantom(Splunk)/Swimlane/Torq
- Any MDR/MSSP security engineering experience