Sr. IT Security Engineer - REMOTE from any EST or CST US-based time zone

CNO Financial Group is a company that secures the future of middle-income America by providing life and health insurance, annuities, and financial services. They are seeking a Sr IT Security Engineer who will design and implement solutions for complex technical problems, serve as a subject matter expert, and lead less senior team members in enhancing the effectiveness and security of the environment.

Responsibilities:

• Establishing annual projects and deliverables using company business goals and strategies, as communicated by the CISO and Security Architecture leadership
• Creating clear engineering diagrams, security analysis, whitepapers, system documentation, presentations, and other deliverables
• Presenting to diverse size groups and translating security technologies and concepts to a non-technical audience
• Planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining security-related technologies
• Participating in projects as required; analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing security solutions which protect the information assets while enabling business functionality
• Utilizing software and hardware tools, identifying and diagnosing problems affecting information security tools and systems, and providing 2nd and 3rd tier operational support
• Providing information security expertise and consulting to internal IT, business system owners, and other stakeholders
• Performing product and solution life cycle management ensuring capacity, integrity, and availability of all security systems
• Aligning technologies to support overall strategy and information security framework
• Ensuring new and existing products conform to information security policies, standards, and best practices
• Conducting research on emerging technologies in support of enterprise operations
• Reviewing new and existing system designs for compliance with security standards and best practices

Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent experience
• Typically requires a minimum of five years of related work experience
• Strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure solutions (Operating Systems, Networks, DNS, Firewalls, SSO, MFA, F5s, Azure, Active Directory, etc.) including Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Exhibit strong problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to combine complex data from multiple sources for analysis
• Can effectively prioritize and execute tasks within expectations and balancing multiple priorities
• Collaborate effectively across multiple business functions to elicit and document business requirements
• Can work with Security Engineers to help engage and train on our Security tools to build their individual tool skill sets
• Strong understanding of information security technologies (endpoint management, cloud application security, certificate management, etc.)
• Strong fundamental understanding of networking and DNS
• Applicable security or CISSP certifications preferred