Principal Security Engineer from Sean Ryan Associates

Our client in New York City has an excellent opportunity for a Principal Security Engineer!

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineers to develop secure services.
• Audit source code for security vulnerabilities.
• Develop/implement automated systems to help spot known security exposures.
• Consult on discovered security flaws, how to exploit them, and how to remediate flaws.
• Conduct threat mapping with respect to competitors, state-sponsors and hacktivists.
• Conduct intelligence gathering including digital, social and physical aspects.
• Conduct attack simulation exercises on a periodic basis.
• Continuous assessment around effectiveness of defense response.
• Demonstrate use of information and access by adversaries to stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to appropriate standards, best practices workplace policies and procedures.
• Work effectively as a team member, providing hands on support, maintaining communication and updating senior staff on progress.
• Participate in Incident Response procedures if/when required.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of the intelligence lifecycle and models including Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience in cyber threat landscape, TTPs, threat actors and groups.
• Experience in threat actor and threat group profiling.
• Exposure and understanding of open source intelligence OSINT.
• Exposure and understanding of cyber threats in the financial sector.
• Exposure and understanding of underground criminal communities and dark web.
• Technical knowhow of malware reverse engineering.
• Visibility and presence in the threat intelligence community.
• Experience with SIEM technologies, threat hunting, monitoring and investigations.
• Excellent analytic and writing capabilities.
• Mentor and guide security analysts in cyber threat intelligence skills.
• Ability to work with minimum guidance.
• Liaise with stakeholders and seek requirement clarification.
• Exposure to Unix/Linux environments with knowledge of commands & basic shell scripting will be an added advantage.
• 7-11 years relevant experience, successfully delivering in an Enterprise environment.
• Bachelor / Master’s of Engineering in Computer Science / Information Security / Cyber Security
• Network and security and tools, including IDS/IPS, NAC, DLP, VPN, firewall management and audit, endpoint, anti-malware, database audit and monitoring.
• Strong experience with secure architecture design.
• Security expertise in one or more of:  Python, Bash, C, C++, cryptography, reverse engineering, wireless networks, common web vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, CSRF), exploit development.
• Security applications utilized for logging, packet capture, email, directory services, web, authentication, remote access, and encryption.
• Database audit / security background is a strong plus.
• Cloud security deployment and controls.
• IT security technologies, policies, and procedures.
• Flexible to work in different time-zones, based on Business requirements.
• Conduct training and mentoring of team members.

Please email your resume to edougherty@seanryaninc.com.