Information Security Generalist

Resurgent Industries • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Information Security Generalist will be a foundational member of the technology organization at a venture-backed manufacturing startup building automated production facilities. The role will help establish the company’s infrastructure and security presence while also providing operational support and guidance across the organization. The successful candidate will bring broad security experience and sound judgment, and will be able to build practical solutions with available resources in a fast-moving startup environment.

The role includes maintaining organization-wide security tooling, operationalizing technical surveillance counter-measures (TSCM) inspections, assessing risks associated with business hardware and software, and designing remediations. The Information Security Generalist will develop operational security runbooks and automation, collaborate on scalable security solutions and incident response, support organization-wide security engagement and education, and help establish security standards and documentation. Travel may be required as needed to meet business security needs.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of broad security experience with increasing scope and complexity.
• Fluency in network infrastructure, protocols, standards, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of the contemporary APT landscape and enthusiasm for taking on related challenges.
• Proficiency working under a platform-agnostic mandate and ensuring reliable interoperability for solutions.
• Willingness to own TSCM operations and take a stake in physical security systems.
• Ability to balance security posture with the realities of a fast-moving organization, without relying on security theater.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills in a distributed team environment.
• Comfort with asynchronous communication, vague and fluid requirements, and remote-first workflows.
• Schedule and hours flexibility, and the ability to thrive when priorities shift and urgency is real.
• Comfort with startup pace, flexibility, self-direction, and a bias toward action and outcomes.
• Willingness to travel as needed to meet the security needs of the business.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at an early-stage hard-tech or deep-tech startup.
• Prior experience on a small team while wearing multiple hats.
• Exposure to high-security, high-uptime environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support organization-wide security tooling.
• Operationalize regular TSCM inspections for plant infrastructure, offices, and network systems.
• Run risk assessment processes for business-required hardware and software, and recommend and design remediations to ensure secure operation.
• Build and maintain runbooks for operational security processes.
• Build automation and everything-as-code libraries.
• Work with the team to design and implement scalable solutions that support the security posture and enable focused incident response.
• Collaborate across the organization to provide first-class security experiences for team members.
• Drive organization-wide security engagement and education.
• Collaborate to establish security standards and documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed