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# Information Security Engineer

- **Company:** Spartanburg County
- **Location:** Spartanburg, SC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $80,249.0 - $102,317.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Identity and Access Management, Networking Hardware, Network Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Software, Remote Access Technology, Cloud Services, Security Information and Event Management, Systems Integration, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Scripting, Data Ingestion, Microsoft InTune, Information Technology, Fortinet, Firewall Services Module, SentinelOne Expertise, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5980b802a9049b23

## About the Role

· Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.

· Five years of progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity engineering, systems/network security, cloud security, infrastructure engineering with significant security duties, or a comparable field.

· Equivalent combinations of education, certifications, and directly relevant experience may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

· Security+, CySA+, SSCP, GSEC, CISSP, Microsoft security, Fortinet NSE/FCP, Tenable, SentinelOne, GIAC, or comparable certifications.

· Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365/Entra/Intune, FortiGate/Fortinet, EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, scripting/automation, PAM, and backup/DR.

· Experience in a multi-site public-sector or regulated environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

· Security engineering, network and systems administration, cloud identity, endpoint security, vulnerability management, logging, incident response, automation, and technical documentation.

· Ability to troubleshoot complex systems, prioritize risk, explain technical findings, and implement controls without unnecessarily disrupting operations.

Working Relationships and Service Expectations

· Works collaboratively with County Administration, department heads, elected officials, IT staff, vendors, and external partners.

· Communicates professionally, respectfully, and clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

· Protects confidential, security-sensitive, personnel, legal, and operational information.

· Supports a customer-service culture focused on partnership, accountability, timely communication, documentation, and continuous improvement.

## Description

Designs, implements, integrates, and maintains the County's cybersecurity technologies and technical controls. The position is the senior hands-on engineer for endpoint, identity, vulnerability, logging, cloud, network, privileged-access, and security-automation capabilities and works closely with infrastructure, applications, GIS, client services, and managed security providers.

Essential Functions

· Implements and administers EDR/XDR, vulnerability-management, SIEM/logging, PAM/password-vault, identity-security, email-security, cloud-security, and network-security technologies.

· Develops secure configurations, policies, integrations, alerting, dashboards, and automated workflows across Microsoft, Fortinet, SentinelOne or successor platforms, Tenable or successor platforms, and other approved technologies.

· Validates endpoint/server coverage, sensor health, policy consistency, exclusions, log ingestion, retention, and control effectiveness.

· Performs vulnerability scanning, configuration assessment, risk prioritization, remediation validation, and technical reporting.

· Partners with infrastructure and application staff to harden servers, endpoints, network devices, cloud services, and critical applications.

· Supports incident investigation, containment, forensic collection, recovery, root-cause analysis, and remediation.

· Develops technical standards, diagrams, build guides, runbooks, recovery procedures, and knowledge articles.

· Reviews firewall rules, remote access, segmentation, privileged access, service accounts, certificates, and administrative pathways.

· Evaluates proposed technologies and vendor solutions for security, supportability, integration, and lifecycle risk.

· Conducts control testing, tabletop support, recovery exercises, and security-tool tuning.

· Provides technical mentoring and cross-training to IT staff and supports security awareness content.

The duties listed are representative and not exhaustive. The employee may be required to perform other job-related duties consistent with the position's purpose and classification.