Entergy
Information Security Engineer Senior Lead
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Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
This position may be filled in Little Rock AR, The Woodlands TX, or New Orleans LA. Relocation assistance and sponsorship is not provided. The official title for this position is Info Sec Engineer Sr Lead.
Brief Position Description
The Senior Information Security Engineer is responsible for proactively improving and evolving a successful security engineering function within Information Security. The Security Engineering team owns the deployment and operation of security monitoring tools and processes designed for real-time analysis, triage, and response to events and alerts generated across the enterprise to protect the company’s assets, solutions, and services by reducing time to respond to and if necessary, remediate security incidents and risks. This role is focused on interpreting cyber security event data, security validation tests, user behavior analytics, third party threat intel, and XDR data to develop security detection and response use cases as well as tune the systems that support the development of alert, response, and forensic data creation.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as Sr Lead Security Engineer, liaison with Cloud Implementation Partners, focus on assisting Leadership with developing cloud security implementation strategy and own/act as SME for cloud security engineering technology(s).
- Participate in the identification and implementation of detection and response use cases in partnership with the security operations center utilizing telemetry provided by or stored in one or more of the following sources: SIEM, XDR, Security Validation, External Threat Intelligence, User Behavior Analytics, and any additionally identified sources of security event data.
- Implement necessary monitoring policies, reference architectures, and procedures in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements covering internal and external parties, regulated and non-regulated physical, operational, and business systems throughout the enterprise.
- Act as knowledgeable resource in securing AI utilization and development, participate in the development AI security implementation and protection strategy. Represent Security Engineering organization in AI working groups.
- Assist in satisfying specific requirements to ensure security of the environment in compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Nuclear Cyber (10 CFR 73.54).
- Execute on strategy & technology roadmap for the Security Information Event Management (SIEM) platform.
- Drive process excellence and maturity to push the envelope on delivering a world-class Cyber Security function to protect Entergy against cyber threats.
- Support life-cycle management of the SIEM platform, and other interconnected or related monitoring platforms including assistance with coordination and planning of upgrades, new deployments, and maintenance of current operational systems.
- Execute on world-class cyber defense capability for all information technology and operational technology assets including power generation units, nuclear plants, electric substations, SCADA, distribution automation, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), email, and networks.
- Work closely with Consolidated Security Operations Center (CSOC), Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM), other internal/external teams and management in a 24x7 operational environment.
- Execute the processes to monitor, analyze, and correlate logs and alerts across multiple platforms to identify advanced threats or incidents affecting the enterprise and aiding in the development of security monitoring use cases. This includes any potential source of security relevant logs and/or data.
- Assist in maintaining documentation and evidence to be used for after action reporting and/or legal evidence.
- Monitor and respond to regulatory developments and industry best practices, with manager direction.
- Accountable for execution of security engineering support of all device classes (server, desktop, mobile, etc.), hosting models (on-premises, external, cloud) and applications to which security platforms apply.
- Work closely with all teams in Information Security to implement use cases for monitoring or SOAR.
- Deliver on KPIs to measure effectiveness of security engineering and report trends.
- Support security orchestration and automation efforts and help to identify opportunities to improve security response and precision.
- Collaborate and work across other IT and Information Security areas to design and onboard new systems to follow monitoring standards and best practices.
- Oversee and review work of junior resources as needed.
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Minimum Requirements
Minimum Education required
- Associate degree in computer science, cyber security or a related discipline or equivalent work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Minimum Experience required
Senior Security Engineer
- At least 6 years of cyber security experience across multiple disciplines (monitoring, log gathering, event correlation, configuration, behavior analytics, network engineering, data analytics, application security, database, risk management, project management, etc.)
- Experience developing Security detection and response use cases based around the Mitre ATT&CK Framework.
- Experience with Security Information Management, configuration, data aggregation, correlation and monitoring tools like a Security Incident and Event Management system, Security Monitoring tools, Endpoint Protection Platform and Extended Detection and Response technologies, Configuration Management tools, etc.
- Experience working with outsourced teams.
- Experience with vulnerability assessment, event management, operations, incident management and reporting.
- Experience in supporting Monitoring Tool solutions.
Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position (combination of the following)
- Demonstrated technical engineering and process management skills and the ability to advocate and support positive transformation within the broader information technology organization.
- Knowledge of cloud monitoring strategies and techniques.
- Knowledge of Security orchestration, automation, and response.
- Knowledge of User and Entity Behavior Analytics.
- Broad knowledge of multiple UNIX OS platforms and Windows-based operating systems.
- Well-versed in security operations, cyber security monitoring, intrusion detection, and secured networks.
Highly qualified candidates will be able to demonstrate knowledge of multiple of the following
- Strong knowledge of security ramifications of businesses regulations (SOX, HIPAA, NERC CIP, FERC, and NRC Nuclear Cyber (10 CFR 73.54).
- Demonstrable experience developing and deploying security orchestration, automation, and response.
- Demonstrable experience developing and deploying user and entity behavior analytics platform and programs.
- Knowledge of security, risk, and control frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001 and 27002, SANS-CAG, NIST, FISMA, COBIT, COSO ITIL, and ATT&CK.
- Knowledge of current IT Security trends and best practices in technology, as well as monitoring best practices and tools.
- Working knowledge with scripting languages such as Perl or Python.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing and patterns involved in monitoring across cloud, hosted and on-prem architectures.
- Strong report writing and communication and ability to effectively communicate across the IT organization.
- The ability to work well independently or with a team.
- Capable of meeting deadlines.
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Any certificates, licenses, etc., required for the position
- CISSP, CISM, CISA or GIAC certifications are a plus.
Primary Location:
Arkansas-Little Rock | Arkansas: Little Rock | Louisiana: New Orleans | Texas: The Woodlands
Job Function:
Engineering
FLSA Status:
Professional
Relocation Option:
No Relocation Offered
Union description/code:
NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings:
1
Req ID:
125131
Travel Percentage:
Up to 25%
An Equal Opportunity Employer
The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Accessibility
Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.
Additional Responsibilities
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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Workplace Discrimination is Illegal. The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.
Working Conditions
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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