Senior Security Engineer
Summary
Hands-on technical lead who designs, implements, and monitors a security stack — Microsoft Defender 365, SIEM, DLP, NAC, secure email/web gateways — while handling incident response and vulnerability management. Full-time hybrid role in Katy, TX with up to 15% travel; no visa sponsorship.
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- Fulltime
- Hybrid (office and remote)
The Senior Security Engineer is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and monitoring a suite of security solutions. This role involves engineering and configuring security products, administering security services, incident response, network design collaboration, and proactively identifying vulnerabilities. The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in a technical field, 10+ years of IT security experience, proficiency in various security technologies, and strong problem-solving skills. Soft skills include being proactive, conscientious, and collaborative, with the ability to work independently. Some travel, up to 15%, may be required.
Qualifications:
- Over a decade of dedicated experience as an IT Security professional, specializing in engineering.
- Proficient in hands-on engineering and implementation of the following technologies, ranging from intermediate to expert level:
- Zero Trust technologies and concepts
- Microsoft Defender 365, encompassing the full security stack
- Network Security, including network segmentation and network access control (NAC)
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- More than five years of practical experience in hands-on administration of the following, at an intermediate to expert level:
- Vulnerability management, covering scanning, prioritization, remediation, and verification
- Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM)
- Secure e-mail gateways (SEG)
- Anti-virus endpoint solutions
- Secure web gateways (SWG)
- Preferred experience of at least one year in scripting for task automation using PowerShell.
- Preferred background of two or more years as a System Administrator and/or Network Engineer.
- Possesses essential soft skills, including being highly proactive, conscientious, a problem solver, with a strong work ethic, a readiness to work outside regular hours when necessary, and the ability to work collaboratively or independently as the situation demands.