Senior Security Engineer

| Greater Boston Area
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As our Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for liaising directly with other InfoSec engineers, infrastructure and platform developers to design, install and test standardized solutions that meet stated security control objectives. Work closely with information technology teams and business stakeholders to understand goals, determine technical requirements, design, and implement application and data security solutions to meet business objectives, IT strategic initiatives, corporate and regulatory requirements.

About the Team:

  • As a member of the security engineering team, you will strive to take a pragmatic approach when proposing security solutions, implement security best practices, and performing day to day architectural reviews, and design improvements to help in maintaining our security posture based on the current business initiatives, and technologies, while ensuring best practice in security principals and architectural design.

Job Duties:

  • Operational Duties: Evaluate, design, test and implement changes to Identity and Access based solutions and technologies, based on changing business needs. Hands-on design, develop, integrate, and update technical solutions that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and non-repudiation. Coordinate with system architects and developers to provide guidance in the development and integration of secure design solutions and principals. Validate IT solutions collaboratively with infrastructure and application development project teams ensuring that relevant security policy, standards and industry best practices are met. Drive the selection, POC, implementation and operational development of new technology solutions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business data. Act as SME for technologies and work with Ops and Dev teams to ensure technologies remain secure through their lifecycles.

  • Conducts investigations while communicating and coordinating remediation efforts. Stays well-informed and current on product updates, the threat landscape, and vulnerabilities relating to technology. Coordinates security patch implementations or stop-gap measures, in coordination with Dev and Ops teams. 

 

  • Business Support: Participates in business and DevOps initiatives as an Information security professional (SME) providing guidance to others on proper security practices. Performs security assessments to identify potential risks in all aspects of the business including IS technical implementations (applications or equipment) as well as IS or business processes. Helps develop and socialize security baselines for all flavors of IT infrastructure. Assists in defining security related processes and procedures for the department as well as the company that can be employed on a global basis. Participates in internal and third-party audits of the company’s security policies, procedures, as well as operational duties while supporting any remediation efforts that may be identified as a result of an audit. Contributes to and delivers end user security awareness training, effective reporting, as well as performance metrics.

 

  • Projects: Helps coordinate and execute DevOps projects as defined and prioritized in the overall global IS security strategy. Evaluates the security posture of company IT globally as well as any related data assets to ensure internal security controls are appropriate and operating as intended. Stays well-informed and current on the latest security technologies, methodologies, and events. Identifies external resources such as vendors, products, or services that may assist in meeting security objectives or promote lower security costs. Evaluates and delivers recommendations pertaining to the procurement of security related technology including software, hardware, and services. Evaluates and delivers feedback on the potential security aspects or impact of non-security related technology including software, hardware, and services. Liaisons with external security vendors and service providers.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Security, or another technical field

  • Minimum five year of direct information security experience in a global IT environment supporting at least 5 of the 10 security domains

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or other security certifications (a plus)

  • Detailed functional knowledge of network cloud technology, architecture, and secure operational design

  • Working knowledge of Secure Development Lifecycle principals

  • Document IT and information security architecture

  • Perform architectural threat modeling

  • Knowledge of penetration testing methodologies and attack vectors

 

About Us:

Our team makes a difference during the most difficult times and challenging situations.  Our people are dedicated to solving problems.  Our software was built to save lives. Our unifying mission is to  keep people safe and businesses running

Headquartered in the great cities of Boston and Los Angeles, with operations all over the world, our team of 500+ dedicated employees support over 3,700 global customers every day in their most crucial moments. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events such as IT outages or cyber-attack incidents, customers rely on our SaaS-based platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes, and track progress on executing response plans.

Our culture is all about “Making a Difference,” and we are proud to serve:

  • 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities

  • 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks

  • 25 of the 25 busiest North American airports

  • 6 of the 10 largest global automakers

  • Over 1,000 Hospitals

As we continue to grow and transform the field of critical event management, we need passionate, committed individuals to help us carry out our mission.   Click here  to learn more about what we do.

Do you think you have what it takes to make a difference? Apply to be a part of our award-winning team today! 

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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