Principal Information Security Engineer

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Principal Information Security Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert for security policies and tools, ensuring the protection of systems data while collaborating with various teams to mitigate security risks and develop secure solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the functional subject matter expert for the Palo Alto Networks firewall and firewall policies
• Making critical decisions on enterprise security policies
• Utilizing the security monitoring tools to support audits (Ex: AlgoSec, Firemon)
• Reporting and reviewing the compliance status and taking remediation actions
• Determine the severity and complexity of issues pertaining to the security and protection of systems data, (autonomously or as part of a team) to ensure the protection, conservation and accountability of proprietary, personal, or privileged electronic data
• Collaborate with directors, managers, and other technical personnel to ensure mitigation of security risks pertaining to the company
• Evaluates and develops secure solutions, based on approved security architectures and standards
• Promote continued integration of technological advances to further enhance security and reduce risks
• Consults on various projects regarding secure design standards and security information management
• Develop and direct implementation of security standards and best practices for the organization
• Evaluates analysis of suggested solutions and innovative approaches to complex issues, as well as complex conceptual analysis, ensuring implementation
• Plans, conducts, and responds to internal and external cyber security audits and questionnaires; interprets and documents audit results; recommends and implements corrective actions
• Participate with cyber security analysts and architects, providing guidance and expertise in incident/issue response and resolution methodology
• Defines, implements, audits, and maintains firewall security policies
• Promote the development of innovative approaches and solutions to complex problems and issues
• Works on highly complex projects and tasks that require in-depth knowledge of one or more specialized architecture areas such as security, applications, information, solution and business
• Serve in a supervisory capacity, provide lead direction, ensuring the formulation and implementation of procedures and systems

Requirements:

• Associate's degree
• 7+ years of experience with Palo Alto Firewall
• 5+ years of Cloud Security experience
• 5+ years of Security Architect experience
• 5+ years of Firewall rule/policy compliance and governance experience
• 5+ years of Firewall rule analysis and remediation experience
• 5+ years of communication skills with team and customer engagement
• Splunk experience
• AlgoSec experience
• Leadership skills
• Basic coding capabilities