Principal Cybersecurity - Proxy and Content Filtering Engineer

$141,300 - $237,400/Yr

AT&T - Alpharetta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Alpharetta, GA

Telecommunications

About the position

The Principal Cybersecurity - Proxy and Content Filtering Engineer role at AT&T is a hands-on technical position focused on the engineering, deployment, and management of proxy solutions in both premise and cloud environments. The role requires extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering, particularly with technologies such as F5, Forcepoint, Broadcom, and squid. The engineer will be responsible for creating policies, tuning, and administration of proxy solutions, as well as integrating these platforms with other security solutions. The position involves collaboration with various stakeholders to develop use cases, implement best practices, and provide ongoing support for monitoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineers, deploys, configures and maintains forward proxy solutions.
• Develops advanced alerts/reports to meet requirements of key stakeholders.
• Develops automation for security tools management and workflow integration.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders within Information Security and Engineering teams to develop specific use cases to address specific business requirements.
• Creates and implements best practices for proxy rules/signatures to mitigate threats.
• Creation and implementation of custom alerting dashboards in SIEM for investigations.
• Works extensively with stakeholders across AT&T to tune proxy policies.
• Aids in gathering, presenting metrics for measuring performance and risk.
• Provides ongoing support to existing monitoring capabilities and data collection systems.
• Provides development support for the expansion and implementation of new systems.
• Leads troubleshooting efforts in complex issues involving multiple platforms and network flows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Cybersecurity engineering with experience configuring, operating and managing premise and cloud-based forward proxies.
• Engineering, administrative experience of F5, Forcepoint, Broadcom, squid platforms.
• Moderate level experience with SSE(CASB/SWG/ZTNA).
• Solid understanding and practical experience with web applications, web platforms, application firewalls, frameworks and protocols with respect to application development, deployment, and operation.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, web protocols and networking concepts.
• Expertise with mainstream operating systems, web services, programming languages, network devices and attack vectors.
• Advanced expertise reviewing and analyzing log files, data correlation and packet captures.
• Script writing and programming using common shell and mainstream languages.
• Senior level understanding of PKI Technology.
• Working knowledge of open source and commercial application security tools and frameworks.
• Solid understanding of Incident Response process.
• Prior experience in Cybersecurity operations and Incident Response.

Nice-to-haves

• CISSP, CISM, SANS GIAC, GWEB or relevant cybersecurity or technical certification.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering, computer science, information security/systems.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone