Security Architect - Consultant

This position will serve as a contract security engineer within the Department of Administration’s Division of Information Security., The successful candidate will show extensive experience supporting security automation, custom tool development, identity and access management, Linux systems and a broad range of enterprise security technologies. This contractor will work with a large enterprise security team and assist the security automations architect, security architects, engineers, analysts and incident responders with the design, development, implementation, integration and continuous improvement of security tools, automations, systems and services supporting multiple state agencies.

Broad hands-on security engineering experience supporting multiple cybersecurity technologies, systems, integrations and operational functions.

Experience developing security automations, scripts, integrations, utilities and custom tools using Python.

Strong experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across applications, security platforms, operating systems, networks, identity services and integrations.

Linux system deployment, configuration, patching, scripting, service management, monitoring, troubleshooting and lifecycle management.

Experience developing automation and response workflows using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, JSON, YAML and vendor SDKs.

Experience supporting IAM, DSPM, ASM, vulnerability management, email security, endpoint security, SIEM, SOAR, logging, monitoring, cloud security and other enterprise security technologies.

Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure software development, systems administration and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.

Preferred Skills (Ranked by Importance):

Hands-on experience serving as a security engineering generalist in a large, multi-tenant, shared- services or managed-service environment.

Hands-on Linux, Docker, security sensor, monitoring, scripting and platform administration experience.

Experience supporting SOC analysts, security engineers, incident responders, agency customers and rapidly changing operational priorities.

Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, Tenable, Cribl, WUG or other enterprise security technologies and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in an information technology, computer science, software engineering or information security related field.

Eight years of relevant work experience (experience may be substituted in lieu of education).

Five years of experience in supporting large it environments, security systems, software development and/or system deployments.

Preferred Certifications:

CISSP, Security+, GIAC OR other relevant cybersecurity certification Linux, python, cloud, IAM or other relevant security engineering or platform certification.

Additional Skills/Duties:

Experience integrating enterprise technologies using APIs, SDKs, web services, structured data formats, authentication methods and vendor-supported interfaces.

Experience developing or supporting internal web applications, APIs, dashboards, databases, command-line tools and related software components., Advanced Python development experience and familiarity with full-stack development, internal web applications, APIs, databases, source control, testing and software deployment practices.