Senior Cyber Defense Engineer - OIT

Emory University•Atlanta, GA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Cyber Defense Engineer is an experienced cybersecurity professional with responsibilities spanning multiple information security disciplines, including incident response, vulnerability management, intrusion detection and prevention, threat intelligence, and security operations, across both cloud and on-premise environments. This role operates independently with minimal supervision, leads other team members, and may act on behalf of department leadership when they are unavailable. Key aspects of the role include establishing operational plans, developing and implementing new processes or standards, and addressing complex problems. The position requires regular communication with cybersecurity and IT leadership, and occasional interaction with senior leadership across the enterprise.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree and six years of related IT experience including demonstrated advanced technical knowledge in multiple information security domains, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Excellent task management and team participation skills.
Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Investigates and responds to cyber incidents within the network environment.
Collects data from a variety of security monitoring tools, including intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs to analyze events that occur within the environment.
Determines and documents information security requirements and controls necessary for the protection of information resources.
Provides guidance and assistance regarding information security matters such as the interpretation of information security policies and requirements or their applicability to particular situations.
Participates in information security incident response activities, risk assessment and risk management activities, and vulnerability assessment and vulnerability management activities spanning multiple business units.
Participates in information security projects and initiatives.
Performs operational tasks supporting information security functions such as intrusion detection and prevention, security monitoring, vulnerability remediation, security incident prevention and remediation.
Supports, maintains, monitors, troubleshoots and enhances security monitoring and response tools, methodologies, software, and hardware.
Analyzes data from Information Security tools and provides reports and recommended response actions to Information Security management.
Represents Information Security to other organizations on information security related matters, as assigned.
Publishes regular status reports and submits to management.
Performs related responsibilities as required.