IT Security Engineer

Brookdale is hiring an IT Security Engineer to manage and protect its IT environment. The role administers security infrastructure, responds to incidents, assesses vulnerabilities and risk, supports compliance, and works with teams across the organization to maintain security controls and policies.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with network administrators, system administrators, developers, business managers, and end users to manage the security of the IT environment. The IT Security Engineer must stay abreast of evolving security issues and ensure the appropriate preventive and detective measures are in place. This role requires the ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information. The role will oscillate, as needed, between supporting daily operational tasks (i.e. logs review, account management, AV threat management, etc.) and enterprise wide projects while keeping an eye toward reaching management goals for the organization-wide policies based on industry best practices. The role will require ongoing team building as well as information security administration
• Administers security infrastructure, such as firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion prevention systems, VPNs, SMTP gateway, SEIM, etc
• Ensures that security configurations of key systems are properly implemented, monitored and reported
• Investigates and resolves incident tickets
• Provides technical support and consultation for enhancement of and change to network security configuration
• Performs active tests; discovers vulnerabilities in information systems
• Performs all security administration functions within Mission Critical maintenance of user profiles and roles
• Assists the business in achieving security certifications (e.g. external – SOX and HIPAA, internal - network, database, end user computing) and evaluates compliance of IT Policies
• Conducts risk assessments, compliance and control reviews for the organization
• Reviews security settings with business process owners to ensure they are in compliance with company standards for segregation of duties

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 or more years of progressive experience in IT engineering
• Has a working knowledge of a skill or discipline that requires basic analytic ability
• Has an overall understanding of the work environment and process
• Has working knowledge of the organization
• Well-rounded understanding of technology, operations and key business processes
• Strong knowledge of hardware, software, database, operating system and networking technologies
• Track record demonstrating maturity and responsibility with an ability to work with confidential situations
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Associate Degree in the field of Computer Science