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What You'll Do:

Hearst Technology Services is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Security Architecture and Engineering team. Our team works closely with our businesses to assist with solving security challenges, deploying and managing security technologies, and providing security guidance and best practices.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will partner with other teams within the Information Security Office. Duties will include using your scripting skills and knowledge of APIs to integrate various tools and technologies to improve visibility and information sharing across the organization and automate typical security operations. This role will be responsible for solution architecture, developing scopes of work, implementing new technologies or reviewing existing solutions, and identifying improvements to gain operational efficiencies.

The engineer should have experience with risk modeling, threat hunting, incident response, and security orchestration. The candidate will provide research and advice to the business, including risk assessments. Reporting to the Director of Security Architecture, the ideal candidate will emphasize security engineering, development, architecture, and design. The candidate will understand security analysis and operations and have a passion for learning new technologies and defending Hearst against the constantly changing threat landscape.

• Provide technical leadership and provide insights into threat analysis.
• Work as an independent team member, capable of applying judgment to plan and execute tasks.
• Respond to technical queries and requests from team members.
• Communicate clearly to both technical and managerial members of Hearst.
• Be ready to adapt to new threats or new defensive technologies.
• Ready to embrace the benefits and challenges of AI adoption

Who You Are:

• Have strong, proven experience in security engineering and development to automate and improve the organization's capability to monitor and respond to information security incidents.
• 3+ years' experience coding, developing, and scripting solutions in the security space with Python and/or PowerShell
• Experience threat hunting.
• Experience as a security analyst.
• Experience directly involved with operational threat intelligence.
• Experience with SIEM technology, including ingestion and data parsing.
• Understanding and experience of EDR, IDS/IPS, Sandboxing technologies, email security, URL filtering, and leveraging AI for security
• Keen understanding of networking technologies.
• Comfortable providing security analysis and guidance with fair and complete security risk assessments.
• Understanding of cloud-native security mechanisms for alerting, logging, and monitoring
• Application security knowledge is a plus.
• The candidate will have superb communication skills to lead discussions and effectively convey concepts to conversations with peers, vendors, customers, and senior management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree preferred.
• Relevant information security certifications are preferred.

Hearst is one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies.

Hearst has been innovating for more than a century, leading with purpose, integrity and a culture of care, with a mission to inform audiences and improve lives.

The company’s diverse portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; digital services businesses; and more than 200 magazines around the world.

Hearst is always moving forward, investing in healthcare solutions to improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions; providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming.

With a commitment to maintaining the highest quality in its products and services, Hearst is dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.

Hearst is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.