**Please note: This is a full-time, direct-hire role. No contract or C2C candidates please.
Location: Chicago
***Candidates need to be Chicago based****
Will be hybrid onsite role.
The Senior Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for:
- Assist with efforts to maintain compliance with the technical aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule, PCI DSS, and other mandated laws and standards
- Install, maintain, and support security systems such as but not limited to Kiwi Syslog, Splunk, Anti-Virus systems, DLP, Encrypted Email Delivery, End point scanning, Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, etc.
- Assist with the technical aspects of efforts to implement security assessment and audit recommendations
- Assist with the technical efforts to support compliance with the development of policies, procedures, controls, and technical tools
- Assist with technical aspects of the performance of and response to annual security assessments and security related internal audits
- Monitor privileged system accounts to ensure principle of least privilege is maintained and separation of duties is adequately addressed or mitigated.
- Provide guidance and assistance with infrastructure design to ensure all security requirements.
- Participate in the incident response process ensuring that procedures are documented and rehearsed as needed.
- Assist Network Operations with developing secure system baseline configurations.
- Perform regular quality audits on new and in production systems to ensure they are maintained according to documented security policies and standards.
- Act as a Lead or Project Manager on security related technical projects.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or security management, or a related technical field required
- CISSP certification highly preferred
- 3-5 years related cyber security experience
- Strong communication skills to gather and exchange information with various levels within the organization, business partners and vendors
- Demonstrate an understanding of project life cycle processes and methodologies
