Sr. IT Security Engineer

Great West Casualty Company is a leading provider of insurance products and services for truck drivers and trucking companies across America. They are seeking a Senior IT Security Engineer to protect enterprise systems and data by designing and implementing security controls, responding to threats, and enhancing the organization's security posture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead root cause analysis and security investigations across endpoints, servers, network infrastructure, identity platforms, and cloud environments
• Design, implement, and continuously improve security controls to protect data, reduce risk, and align with cybersecurity best practices and frameworks
• Own and enhance monitoring, detection, and incident response processes—triaging alerts, coordinating containment/eradication, and driving lessons learned
• Engineer and operationalize security tooling
• Drive vulnerability management activities including identification, prioritization, remediation coordination, and verification
• Lead or significantly contribute to vendor risk management activities, security assessments, and third-party control validation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• 7+ years of progressive experience in IT security engineering, security operations, or a closely related role
• Strong knowledge of security principles, common frameworks and practical risk reduction techniques
• Hands-on experience with modern security tools and technologies, vulnerability management and network security controls
• Support compliance initiatives and security standards
• Security certifications such as CISSP, Security+, Azure/AWS security certifications are a plus