IT Security Engineer

Brookdale Senior Living•Brentwood, TN

About The Position

Recognized by Newsweek in 2024 and 2025 as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity Make Lives Better Including Your Own. If you want to work in an environment where you can become your best possible self, join us! You'll earn more than a paycheck; you can find opportunities to grow your career through professional development, as well as ongoing programs catered to your overall health and wellness. Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans are available and vary by employment status. 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. This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Requirements

Associate Degree in the field of Computer Science preferred.
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.
Ability to lift: Up to 25 pounds
Standing
Requires interaction with co-workers, residents or vendors
Walking
Sitting
Use hands and fingers to handle or feel
On-Call on an as needed basis
Reach with hands and arms
Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
Talk or hear
Vision

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans are available and vary by employment status.
Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
401(k)
Associate assistance program
Employee discounts
Referral program
Early access to earned wages for hourly associates (outside of CA)
Optional voluntary benefits including ID theft protection and pet insurance
Paid Time Off
Paid holidays
Company provided life insurance
Adoption benefit
Disability (short and long term)
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account
Optional life and dependent life insurance
Optional voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity Insurance, and legal plan
Tuition reimbursement