Location: This is a hybrid (virtual/onsite) position with required onsite days on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday assigned to the One Energy Plaza headquarter located in Jackson, MI. The selected candidate must be within a commutable distance or willing to relocate (relocation package is available for those that qualify).
General Summary of Job Responsibilities
The Principal Security Engineer operates as the team's operational lead, a liaison between other technical teams within the company, and a mentor for less-senior members of the team. This role directs the work of more junior team members to ensure the stability and compatibility of security technologies with the company's compute environment and enforce adherence to SLAs and regulatory requirements. The Principal Security Engineer will regularly interact with technical build and architecture teams to provide design input, implementation support, and information sharing. A person in this role understands the work of all members of the team, has expertise across all technologies that the team operates, possesses a broad understanding of the of the company's compute infrastructure, and understands how the team's processes and technologies support the Security organization's mission. This position operates with high levels of autonomy to drive the operational delivery of the team, own coordination and collaboration with stakeholders internal and external to the company, and lead the operational response to critical issues and priority events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads the Security Engineering team's response to highly impactful technology issues by prioritizing and assigning tasks to a cross-functional response team, coordinating with stakeholders internal and external to the company, and providing updates to company leadership
- Performs ongoing risk assessments against the team's toolsets to identify gaps in security protections, provides risk reduction recommendations to security leaders, and coordinates the implementation of those measures with stakeholders throughout the business
- Serves as the highest escalation point for complex process and technology issues and leads troubleshooting activity within the team while coordinating with leadership, technical and non-technical stakeholders, and external vendors
- Prioritizes, assigns, and escalates the team's tickets to team members or management as needed to ensure adherence to established SLAs and ensure the proper function of the team's supported processes and technologies
- Provides design input and implementation support to the Security Engineering team for major system upgrades and infrastructure modifications, and provides necessary knowledge sharing and/or training to system operators on the Security Operations team upon implementation
- Mentors, trains, and directs the activities of more junior team members to build competency and contribute to career growth in this role
- Other duties as assigned or may be necessary
- Advises the Security Operations Manager on the team's mission and vision
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Ability to teach technical concepts and provide coaching for junior team members
- Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and standards to meet security and business needs
- Ability to communicate clearly with internal customers at all levels of technical understanding
- Ability to think analytically and conceptually
- Awareness of security industry concepts, best practices, and trends
- ICS Principles
- Working knowledge of computer network concepts
- Understanding of common enterprise operating systems and infrastructure
- Ability to participate in after-hours system maintenance and incident response
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, or Information Technology and 7+ years' experience in cyber security, computer networks and/or system engineering, or closely related discipline is required. Experience working with the following technologies; Firewalls, Proxy's, Network Architecture Design, Privileged Account Management, Endpoint Security Platforms, Cloud Technology AWS/Azure. Experience developing standard work to efficiently and effectively manage technology resources, for example firewalls, IDS, Active Directory, or vulnerability management.
Consumers Energy
1 Energy Plz
Jackson
Michigan United States
www.consumersenergy.com
