Associate Security Engineer
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This is a remote position with preference given to East Coast candidates.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in designing and implementing scalable and reliable security solutions with guidance from senior engineers.
- Assist in developing and implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions to enforce security policies and automate cloud configurations.
- Support the maintenance and enhancement of CI/CD pipelines, automate repetitive tasks, and help improve system efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with development and platform engineering teams to support their security needs.
- Actively seek mentorship from senior engineers and share learnings with peers.
- Complete smaller tasks independently and contribute to mid-level and larger-scale security projects with senior guidance.
- Assist in maintaining SIEM solutions and log ingestion pipelines to support monitoring, alerting, and threat detection.
- Assist in developing incident response playbooks for various alert types and participate in related testing to help ensure operational readiness.
- Monitor emerging threats and assist in operationalizing threat intelligence tools, including alert mapping using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Support vulnerability management and cloud security posture management, including code/dependency scanning, WAF, and DLP configurations.
- Collaborate with application teams to implement enterprise app governance and mobile application management (MAM).
- Assist in developing and applying hardening guidelines for cloud workstations and servers, and in reviewing firewall rules, network security groups, and domain controllers, to help ensure secure configurations.
- Collaborate with product teams to integrate security into SDLC and feature design reviews.
- Support the review of customer and vendor contract security clauses under senior guidance.
- Assist in coordinating phishing simulations, security awareness campaigns (e.g., KnowBe4), and coaching initiatives, helping deliver guidance and training materials to employees.
- Assist in coordinating third-party penetration testing efforts to support mobile and web app security.
- Help maintain compliance documentation for customers and vendors, and contribute to network diagrams and dataflow documentation with other teams.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, providing timely response to security incidents outside regular business hours as needed.
- 1+ years of professional engineering experience and a familiarity with information security
- Foundational knowledge of cloud platforms
- Basic proficiency in scripting and automation
- Basic understanding of version control
- Intermediate proficiency with IaC and CI/CD pipeline tools
- Basic understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts (e.g., ECS, ACA, K8s, Docker)
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify critical issues and escalate with recommendations
- Bachelors in Information Technology, Software Development, or related field
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