Information Security Engineer

About the role

The Cyber Defense organization is seeking an Information Security Engineer to support comprehensive offensive and defensive security operations across multiple enterprise environments. You will join a highly collaborative Agile DevOps delivery team of information security professionals responsible for proactively identifying/remediating vulnerabilities, conducting threat assessments, and implementing robust security measures to protect Intel's critical assets, systems, and applications.

Responsibilities

• Configuration, management, and operations of core platforms within the Cyber Defense organization (e.g. vulnerability/application scanning, security patching, asset discovery/identification, exposure management, etc.).
• Perform external attack surface management responsibilities such as, attack path analysis, exposure exploitability analysis, and tactical remediation and containment of high-risk exposures.
• Verify efficacy of security controls implemented on a variety of Intel enterprise systems, infrastructure, and applications.
• Recommend remediation actions to discovered security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
• Evaluate threat intelligence and determine potential risk to Intel. Understand and emulate adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures in assessing the security posture of a wide range of systems.
• Work closely with software development engineers, system engineers, and other information security teams in supporting information security projects and initiatives.
• Develop and support security solutions that integrate and interface with customers/business units.
• Produce quality reporting documentation, tailoring the relative detail of the content to the audience.
• Be a team player within the functional team, and across other Intel teams and stakeholders.
• Support vulnerability assessments of AI systems by running scans, documenting findings, and helping track remediation of identified issues in models and datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand AI workflows and identify potential security gaps.
• Help develop defensive and / or offensive AI agents / to respond to or emulate AI assisted attackers.
• Support and work in an Agile and DevOps team focused on security operations, analytics, and solution development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or any other science/engineering related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Information Security operations, vulnerability management, and/or service delivery.
• Experience in Offensive Security and Vulnerability Management including Vulnerability Assessment, Identification, and Remediation.
• Server/system architectures, operating systems, system patching, system and security configuration, auditing, and automation.
• Windows and Linux administration (i.e., installation, configuration, and troubleshooting).
• Experience in adversary emulation, network penetration testing, web application penetration testing, and cloud penetration testing (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Practical experience with Windows, PowerShell, Active Directory, EntraID (Azure Active Directory), Linux OS (various flavors), networking, scripting/coding (Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, BASH, Go, etc.), cloud security, and DevOps/CICD/container/K8s.
• Developing scripting and automation solutions to support system configuration, performance, and troubleshooting.
• AI/LLM and AI Agents knowledge and experience.
• Implementing and supporting cloud-based solutions / Network protocols (TCP/IP) as well as protocols associated with common device communications / Information Security best practices and technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and with Scrum practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with a breadth of technical skills, and an eagerness to Information security certifications through industry recognized organizations such as: SANS, ISACA (CISM), ISC2 (CISSP), CompTIA (Security+), MCSE, AWS, CCNA, ITIL).
• Offensive security certifications (e.g. CEH, OSCP, CRTO).

Pay

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $89,340.00 - 175,210.00 USD

Schedule

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Location

US, California, Folsom

US, Arizona, Phoenix