
Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, Resiliency
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Job OverviewAs a Principal Engineer supporting resiliency for cloud infrastructure and identity at T-Mobile, you will play a critical role in ensuring the robustness and security of our cloud environments and identity management systems! Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining resilient cloud infrastructure and identity solutions to protect T-Mobile's critical assets from cyber threats.
In this role, you will collaborate with various teams to develop and implement strategies for cloud infrastructure and identity resiliency. You will be responsible for conducting risk assessments, implementing standard processes for cloud security, and ensuring the integrity and availability of identity management systems. Your expertise will be essential in maintaining the security and continuity of T-Mobile's services.
Responsibilities
- Develop, architect, and implement strategies for cloud infrastructure and identity resiliency.
- Conduct risk assessments and implement standard methodologies for cloud security.
- Ensure the integrity and availability of identity management systems.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to align on resiliency objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement in cloud infrastructure and identity resiliency practices.
- Conduct threat modeling to identify vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors.
- Build strategy and documentation for Incident Response, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Optimizes multi-functional partnership to successfully address cloud and identity requirements. Leads / organizes large scale analysis efforts spanning multiple departments. Uses internal and external data resources to make strategic business decisions and persuade others. Collaborates and builds long-term relationships with key collaborators. Anticipates likely team member responses to specific recommendations and can address accordingly.
- Leads information security review of new technologies, designs, and remediation planning efforts.
- Collaborates with Engineering & Operations Teams to address cloud and identity security vulnerabilities.
- Proactively identifies process or technology improvements within existing legacy applications or infrastructure and seeks out remediation.
- Investigates and/or leads identifying security needs & recommends plans/resolutions. Implements, tests & monitors info security improvements.
- Maintains visibility inside & outside of information security at the Executive (Director/Sr Director) level. Collaborate with groups such as application support, engineering ops, finance, privacy, risk management, etc.
- Significant experience with the analysis of underlying technologies that form the solution necessary for the application of threat identification, analysis, and thread model design. The threat model depicts trust boundary, threat agent(s), threat vector(s), and safeguard(s) necessary to protect person, asset, data, and T-Mobile brand.
- Proactively identifies areas that need to be developed and seeks out expertise in those areas. Keeps abreast of current developments and trends and can use this knowledge to create a case to address major issues and create specific action plans to address the gaps that the team controls. Plays a leadership role in the execution of that action plan.
- Leads security projects driven by groups both internal and external to info security.
- Mentors, peers and junior team members in security technologies, enterprise solution design, telco, and effective customer interaction.
- Domain expert in multiple facets of network & information security, including business continuity, disaster recovery, asset management, recovery testing, and other topics as assigned.
- Advanced understanding of IP/Security solutions & technologies applicable to the Wireless Network Architecture.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent work experience
Work Experience
- 7-10 years Experience with increasing responsibility with security related software and/or business process design. (Required)
- 4-7 years Experience with the following: project/team lead, Cloud and Identity expertise, and facilitation of multi-functional solution design teams. (Preferred)
- 4-7 years Technical Project Management (Preferred)
- AZure, AWS, AD, Entra, and CyberArk proficiency.
- Incident Response and Recovery Planning - Experience with developing and implementing incident response plans, disaster recovery strategies, and business continuity plans.
- Previous Leadership experience (Preferred)
- Be domain expert in multiple security subject areas (Preferred)
- Experience with high level design architecture, security technologies, networking, web services and SOA. (Preferred)
- Authority in all facets of network & information security, including Firewall policy design, SSL Certificate management, vulnerability analysis & mitigation, and other topics as assigned. (Preferred)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Deep understanding of firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, endpoint protection, and secure architecture design.
- Expertise in conducting threat modeling to identify vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors.
- Significant knowledge of current technological trends and developments in the area of info security
- Ability to create technical specification and requirements and work independently and with no direction/supervision. Able to quickly adapt to new or evolving technologies related to new product & services requiring validation or research.
- Strong verbal and communication skills with diverse multi-functional groups. Ability to communicate advanced concepts to leadership, peers, and others in subordinate roles.
- Always act with tact and integrity, and work with a variety of individuals in a positive and productive manner
- Ability to plan, organize and prioritize tasks to complete independently, as well as delegate and track progress within the team, all within the time frame established.
- In-depth knowledge of security standard processes in large-scale environments. Author white papers and presents at industry conferences. Able to drive industry standards and socialize internally and externally.
- Understanding load balancers of Malware Protection (ex -FireEye), Advanced Persistent Threats (ex - Damballa), SIEM (ex – ArcSight), Log & Event (ex – Splunk), Intrusion IDS/IPS (ex – Symantec), Cloud Platform (ex – PCF, Docker), Scanning (ex – Qualys), AppSec (ex - Veracode)
- Expert understanding of T-Mobile’s network elements and how they work together (EIT, Engineering & 3rd Party).
- Advance knowledge of Scripting tools (Python/Perl/Shell/HTML/PHP)
- Knowledge of federal & compliance regulations e.g. SOX, PCI & CPNI
Licenses and Certifications
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) CISSP and/or CCSK and/or CCSP and/or CISA/CISM certification a plus (Preferred)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) (Preferred)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (Preferred)
• Legally authorized to work in the United States
Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):Yes
DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No
Base Pay Range: $127,800 - $230,700Corporate Bonus Target: 20%
The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.
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