Senior Information Security Engineer

Heartland Business Systems•West Des Moines, IA

About The Position

This role will provide security Incident Response (IR) services for our customers. IR activities would include all aspects of analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery, and would entail actions such as log reviews, malware analysis, evidence collection, and other forensic activities that are part of a cybersecurity incident investigation. This role will also advise on and deploy security technical solutions as well as perform internal and external oriented security assessments. These assessments range from deep technical security assessments, social engineering, broad-based risk, and security posture assessments. These assessments and services may be performed as individual projects or in a virtual Security Engineer (vSE) role. Additionally, this role will work with the Practice Manager – Digital Forensics & Incident Response to identify and develop new technical cybersecurity offerings.

Requirements

8+ years of related IT experience
3+ years of AD and Azure experience
Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the questions of others.
Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
Communication - Oral and Written - Ability to communicate effectively with others.
Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company policy.
Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks during stressful situations.
Independence – Ability to work on your own to drive the desired results on assigned work.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience handling and leading IR
Experience with Digital Forensic handling and analysis
Experience with Threat Hunting and analysis
Experience with Active Directory specifically domain recovery
Experience with Configuration on various firewall vendors and VPN
Experience with Office 365 and Exchange
Experience with Virtualization concepts and technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V)
Experience with Data Center Operations (Networking, SAN/NAS, Servers)
CEH and/or CHFI or current industry standard certifications in areas of security expertise

Responsibilities

Work as a member of the HBS Cybersecurity team that provides consultative and proactive security related support to Heartland’s account base.
Lead Incident Response cases from beginning to end, providing consulting and remediation efforts.
Perform forensic analysis to identify systems artifacts which can be used as evidence of the “who, what, when, where, and how” during cybersecurity incident response activities or digital investigations.
Serve as a Virtual Security Engineer (vSE) for customers.
Obtain knowledge on other technologies, as directed by customer demand.
Effectively present and explain security solutions to customers.
Provide sales consultants and fellow Engineers with design assistance, review, validation, and optimization of security technologies and solutions.
Contribute to product selection and research, configuration standards and best practices and educate our sales teams on these products and services so that they can sell them.
Ability to work in a team atmosphere as both a leader and contributor, as assigned.
Always maintaining a professional and respectful demeanor.
Cross-training/Mentoring of other HBS employees.
Participate in on-call to support the 24x7 IR services.
Minimum of 1,350 hours billed per fiscal year prorated based on start date. These charge hour requirements will be balanced against professional development and on the job training.