Security Engineer

Company: Progrexion
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Overview

Want to work on a world-class team building life-changing financial products? Let me introduce you to Progrexion - that's what we do every day.

Our team builds industry leading services that help consumers access, understand, and verify their credit reports are fair, accurate, and substantiated. Our services power the technology behind Lexington Law (an independently owned law firm), Credit.com, and CreditRepair.com. And the good news? We have a lot of fun while we do it.

The successful candidate will demonstrate our Corporate Guiding Values of Integrity, Consumer Advocacy, Teamwork, Development, Quality and Performance in all areas of his/her work. This individual will have strong technical skills to ensure Progrexion's information is safe at all times. Our ideal candidate will not only have a high business acumen, but will also have a technical background and ability to convey technical information into business terms.

Progrexion is looking for a skilled Security Engineer to join on our Security Engineer team. You will be part of a paced-paced, hard-working environment, helping us to continuously improve and develop the information security in the company.

Responsibilities

• Researches, designs, and implements cyber security solutions for organization systems and products that comply with all applicable security policies and standards
• Works with IT and internal and external business partners to ensure that security is factored in the evaluation, selection, installation and configuration process of hardware and software
• Analyzes and makes recommendations to improve network, system, and application architectures.
• Examines network, server, and application logs to determine trends and identify security incidents
• Assists in the review and update of cyber security policies, architectures, and standards
• Assists in responding to audits, penetration tests, and vulnerability assessments
• Works as part of a team of security engineers
• Participates in regular meetings and contributes knowledge and experience to solve problems at hand
• Maintains technical documentation on processes and policies
• Develops a familiarity with new tools, techniques, and threats in the industry
• Supports the rest of the security engineers as needed - flexibility is a must

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity, especially in a security engineer role is desired, but not required
• Technical expertise in network security knowledge, to include VPN, firewall, network monitoring, intrusion detection, web server security and wireless security, and cloud
• Practical experience with database security, content filtering, vulnerability scanning and anti-malware tools
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language is desired
• Strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one
• Strong problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills
• Understanding of business needs and a commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt and efficient service to the business
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate security concepts to a technical and non-technical audience including senior management
• Demonstrated ability to establish relationships and build rapport to influence colleagues at all levels, uncover issues, and identify needs
• Has the ability to interface with, and gain the respect of, stakeholders at all levels and roles in the company
• Is a confident, energetic self-starter, with strong interpersonal skills
• Has good judgement, a sense of urgency, and has demonstrated commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and business integrity
• Demonstrated participation in appropriate industry associations
• Security-focused certifications

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