Engineer, Cybersecurity

ABOUT US

Join us in making a career in Independent Living Systems, an industry leader in managing home and community-based programs for over 20 years. Independent Living Systems, LLC and its subsidiaries offer a comprehensive range of clinical and third-party administrative services to managed care organizations and providers that serve high-cost, complex member populations in the Medicare, Medicaid, and Dual-Eligible Market. ILS provides tailored integrated solutions aimed at improving health outcomes while rebalancing costs, addressing social determinants of health and connecting members with community-based resources.

Position Summary

The Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing security architectures, technologies and automation as well as providing key input to security operations and production support. This position is an internal security advisor driving initiatives while balancing business priorities against internal policy, standards, and IT security controls framework. This individual will take a lead role in identifying risks and creating strategies that effectively prevent the loss of company, employee, or customer data.

Essential Functions

• Monitor and maintain security for network, servers and systems. Maintain systems compliance with security policies and procedures. Evaluate network and security technologies; develop security requirements for cloud security, IAM, Encryption, adhering to industry standards.
• Promotes process improvements and methodologies; keeps emerging information security issues and trends to ensure standards are followed.
• Conduct in-depth technical reviews of new and existing IT systems in order to ensure that these systems into compliance with established policy and industry guidelines.
• Assists with continuous improvement activities and root cause analysis with the goal of strengthening information security capabilities.
• Conduct periodic scans of networks to find any vulnerability. Conduct penetration testing to simulate an attack on the system to highlight or find any weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party.
• Implement, monitor, configure, and maintain security systems and tools in scope of Security team. Provide ongoing advisory to IT infrastructure teams on the effective implementation and maintenance of network components in alignment with reference designs and security controls.
• Track, escalate and communicate security incidents while effectively analyzing threats, including Phishing emails or other incidents working with internal IT teams to resolve issues.
• Analyzes and identifies risk by understanding factors that influence impact and likelihood of identified risk building working knowledge and relationship between risk and governance; building expertise in risk analysis in multiple layers of security specialty (for example, physical, governance, technical); and developing risk mitigation strategies for identified vulnerabilities.
• Manages the execution of security initiatives by prioritizing critical issues for root-cause analysis; ensuring resolution of critical issues; monitoring progress versus plan; escalating complex or difficult issues.
• Monitors, analyzes, and remediates information technology (IT) security risks and vulnerabilities by adhering to defined operating procedures; reviewing metrics to identify outliers, inefficiencies, and nonstandard actions associated with operational processes and reporting the findings; identifying improvement opportunities and providing feedback to senior team members and management; and participating in meetings for any initiatives or tasks that will alter current processes.
• Collaborate with other technology associates and functional business teams to build, deliver, and support effective, security technology solutions aligned to enterprise security strategy and compliance.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• CISSP, GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), CEH, Security+
• 5+ years of work experience in Cyber Security related duties such as incident detection, response and forensics.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience in computer security related disciplines, including but not limited to the following subject areas: software vulnerabilities and exploitation, host forensics, malware analysis, network traffic analysis, Insider Threat and web-focused security topics. Demonstrated enthusiasm for learning new things and ability to pick up new ideas quickly.
• Demonstrated knowledge of common/emerging attacks techniques.
• Crisis management skills: able to set priorities, pursue multiple threads at the same time, accurately reflect current state and drive towards desired state.

EEO STATEMENT

In compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, Independent Living Systems has a longstanding commitment to provide a safe, quality-oriented, and productive work environment. Alcohol and drug abuse pose a threat to the health and safety of ILS employees and to the security of the company's equipment and facilities. For these reasons, ILS is committed to the elimination of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the workplace. Independent Living Systems, LLC, and its subsidiaries, including FCC, provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, disability, ancestry, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.