Cybersecurity Engineer (remote opportunity)

Summary:This role is responsible for leading and supporting efforts to secure the enterprise network infrastructure including but not limited to firewalls, Data Loss Prevention, Web application firewalls and similarly aligned security controls. You will be leading efforts in designing, implementing, administering, and supporting enterprise security controls for both on prem and cloud environments. You should bring an eagerness to learn new skills and technologies, a passion for security and solving related puzzles, an open mind for collaboration, and a drive to overcome obstacles and seek successful solutions.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Implementation of network security strategy including on prem and cloud enablement and establishing next generation firewall features and capabilities.
• Provide analysis and recommendations for the continuous improvement of on prem and cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) network security.
• Maintain, deploy, upgrade, and troubleshoot cloud network security infrastructure solutions, including hybrid connectivity, firewalls, WAFs, Intrusion prevention and detection systems, DLP tools, etc.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to implement consistent technical solutions and support processes.
• Evaluate and harden tooling and instrumentation to prevent cybersecurity exploits.
• Prepare and update Cybersecurity procedures, standards and/or other technical requirement documents.
• Provide input on the roadmap for addressing capability gaps, maturity improvements, and innovations.
• Perform and/or coordinate regular security assessments of existing or new infrastructure.
• Perform duties necessary to assist in establishing practices and system configurations to ensure the safety of enterprise system assets and to protect enterprise systems from intentional or inadvertent access, compromise, or destruction.
• Assists with monitoring and auditing of information systems activities and systems to confirm security policy compliance and provide management with security policy compliance assessments and system monitoring reports.
• Work with stakeholders to provide security solutions that support their business requirements.
• Conduct security risk assessments on new products and systems, periodic security risk assessments on existing systems and identify and/or recommend appropriate security countermeasures and best practices.
• Identify security gaps that expose the enterprise to potential exploits and develop short and long term prioritized remediations to address those gaps ensuring management is apprised of the risk in a timely manner.
• Mentor and develop other team members
• Promote security centric knowledge sharing and enterprise security training.
• Assist with on-call support as needed.
• Performing additional duties as assigned.

What You'll Bring To The Company:

Required:

• A Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer certification (PCNSE).
• A successful track record of supporting Palo Alto hardware and software solutions, primarily Firewalls and the associated management consoles.
• Subject Matter Expertise with network technologies, segmentation, and/or security zones, firewall best practices.
• Good working knowledge of Authentication protocols such as: Kerberos, SAML, OAUTH, etc.
• Experience with networking technologies, such as firewalls, routers, load balancers, and proxies.
• Experience with network segmentation and/or security zones for applicable data protection according to data classification.
• Demonstrated experience of "hands on" security knowledge of one or more of the following platforms: Firewalls, UTM, Forward/Reverse Proxies, DDoS Mitigation, Log aggregation, WAF, etc.
• An understanding of network engineering and security principles (e.g. protocols, routing, switching, filtering, firewall rules, etc.).
• Experienced or conversant with public cloud computing - AWS (preferred), Azure and/or GCP.
• Ability to interpret information security data and processes to identify potential compliance issues.
• Ability to quickly understand complicated data flows to identify and validate security requirements.
• Must be a team player and willing to establish a strong positive working relationship with all areas of the business.
• Ability to work effectively, independent of assistance or supervision.
• Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.
• Ability to clearly communicate Information Security matters to executives, auditors, end users, and engineers using appropriate language, examples, and tone.
• Individual must be goal oriented, organized, and motivated to learn and advance to a higher level within professional career.
• Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies.
• Good understanding of Security and systems best practices.
• Willing to share knowledge with co-workers and to assist them in understanding technical and business topics.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or IT related field and/or ten or more years of experience as an advanced system engineer or architect.
• Seven or more years of engineering experience developing and delivering complex, distributed, enterprise class hardware/software, and creating successful business outcomes.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in engineering and network design/implementation/support.
• Experience with agile methodologies and practices a plus.

About Us:

Grange Insurance Company, with $3 billion in assets and more than $1.3 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance provider founded in 1935 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home, life and business insurance protection. Life insurance offered by Grange Life Insurance and Kansas City Life Insurance. Grange Insurance Company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Who We Are:

We are committed to an inclusive work environment where we welcome and value diversity and inclusion. We hire great talent from a wide variety of backgrounds, and our associates are our biggest strength. The diversity of our associates, their backgrounds, experiences, and individual differences are the foundation for our success. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to "Be One Team", "Deliver Excellence", "Communicate Openly", "Do the Right Thing", and "Solve Creatively for Tomorrow". We have active Associate Resource Groups and a Diversity and Inclusion Team, that focuses on professional development, networking, business value and community outreach; all which encourage and facilitate an environment that fosters learning, innovation, and growth. Together we use our individual experiences to learn from one another and grow as professionals and as humans.

We welcome the unique contributions that you bring from education, opinions, culture, beliefs, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability, sexual orientation, gender stereotyping, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, pregnancy, veteran status, and citizenship.

Grange Enterprise is proud to be part of the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion™, a national initiative of more than 1400 CEOs working for the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the workplace.