[Remote] Security Systems Engineer III
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NISC develops enterprise-level and customer-facing software solutions for energy cooperatives and communications organizations across North America. The Security Systems Engineer III designs, deploys, maintains, and supports infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity architectures; investigates security incidents; resolves technical issues; and ensures compliance with applicable standards.
Responsibilities
- Analyze business challenges and lead the evaluation and recommendation of technology products and platforms that meet business, technical, and budgetary requirements
- Research and design best-fit infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity architectures
- Lead infrastructure configuration, troubleshooting, and support while ensuring compliance with quality and change-control standards
- Support root-cause investigations of cybersecurity incidents and recommend preventive and corrective measures
- Identify and prioritize improvements to support processes, procedures, and documentation
- Respond to end-user, customer, and internal team inquiries by troubleshooting and resolving hardware, software, system, and network-connectivity issues
- Ensure compliance with applicable industry standards, regulations, security requirements, and best practices
- Collaborate with external vendors and service providers to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
- Demonstrate initiative by contributing innovative ideas, technical expertise, and creative solutions
- Represent the company at conferences, networking events, and other industry engagements
- Leverage generative AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity, creativity, and problem-solving within the scope of the role
- Perform other duties as assigned
Skills
- • 6+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, systems administration, network engineering, or a related technical field
- • Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux and Windows environments
- • Experience administering and optimizing application stacks, including IIS, Tomcat, Apache, and NGINX
- • Strong networking experience, including configuring switches and SPAN/mirror ports to provide north-south and east-west traffic visibility to NDR platforms such as Darktrace, Suricata, and SIEMonster
- • Experience deploying and configuring vulnerability-scanning platforms such as OpenVAS, Nessus, and Qualys
- • Experience deploying, administering, configuring, and updating endpoint agents across enterprise environments, including RMM and EDR solutions such as NinjaOne, Action1, CrowdStrike, and SentinelOne
- • Experience configuring, administering, and troubleshooting firewalls, VLANs, firewall rules, VPN/SSL connections, and Active Directory integrations
- • Experience configuring and deploying centralized multifactor authentication solutions such as Duo, Okta, and Microsoft Entra ID
- • Experience with cloud platforms
- • Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, RHEV, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, and Docker
- • Advanced experience with monitoring platforms such as Zabbix, Nagios, and Cacti
- • Advanced experience with automation and configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef
- • Advanced scripting skills using Windows PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages
- • Ability to travel up to 25% to customer sites to support product deployments and post-incident remediation across diverse technical environments
- • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- While performing the essential functions of this position, employees must be able to see and communicate
- Employees are regularly required to maintain a stationary position, move, and operate computer keyboards or office equipment
- • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, or Microsoft Azure
- • Microsoft and/or Linux systems administration certs
- • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate and/or AWS Solution Architect preferred
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