IT Security Engineer

IT Security Engineer with YARA Experience

Charlotte, NC/Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid, Onsite 3 days per week) 6-month contract – could extend or convert

Requirements:

• 3+ years of Security Engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with YARA or RegEx scripting
• Experience in a SOC environment
• Experience with IDS or IPS and Firewalls
• Experience with any SIEM platform (Splunk or Chronicle preferred)
• YARA-L/YARA 2.0 and Google Chronicle SIEM experience are a home run

Responsibilities:

• Lead or actively participate in responding to computer security incidents, focusing on events of moderate complexity.
• Conduct thorough technical investigations of security incidents and perform post-incident digital forensics to pinpoint causes and propose future mitigation strategies.
• Provide expert security guidance on medium-scale projects for internal clients, ensuring alignment with corporate information security policies and standards.
• Develop, document, test, and maintain moderately complex security solutions across various domains including networking, cryptography, cloud services, authentication, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security.
• Review and analyze security logs to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities.
• Implement industry-leading security solutions and best practices to address key information security components such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity.
• Assess security vulnerabilities and risks, and propose appropriate remediation strategies.
• Collaborate closely with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve security issues and achieve organizational security goals.

Required Qualifications:

2+ years of experience in Information Security Engineering, demonstrated through work experience, training, military service, or education.