Cybersecurity Engineer (Network)

$86,500 - $146,100/Yr

Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Riverwoods, IL

11-50 employees

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About the position

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. As a Network Security Engineer, you'll design, develop, implement, and maintain network security solutions and capabilities that reduce risk to our business, brand, and customers. On our best-in-class engineering team, you'll help us build innovative strategies and capabilities that increase our security posture and enable faster delivery. You'll thrive in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, leverage new technology, and drive the adoption of automation capabilities - all on a team that sets the example for supporting each other, working hard together, and celebrating often. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs and develops security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure it is consistent with corporate technology goals and risk tolerance levels.
• Designs and engineers solutions to align with the Cybersecurity Strategy.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and acts as subject matter expert during escalations.
• Validates current and future state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems.
• Oversees security requirements and technical specifications to guide project implementation towards successful solution delivery.
• Provides direction to infrastructure, operations, data and application developments groups throughout transitioning phase, implementation in production and beyond.
• Manages relationships with security partners and vendors.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with management, peers, project managers and internal customers.
• Maintains knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats and attack techniques.
• Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelors - Computer Science or related
• 3+ Years - Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls, and the Panorama management console.
• IDS / IPS
• Familiarity with AWS Security Groups
• Python, Terraform, Ansible
• General networking (routing/switches)
• Public cloud security
• General security awareness skills.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan