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Cybersecurity

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - SSPM/DSPM

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Job Overview
The Cybersecurity Engineer will help ensure that our software, systems and infrastructure are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. Performs technical security assessments and vulnerability testing to highlight risk and remediate associated findings while helping T-Mobile teams and partners improve security. Works closely with other T-Mobile Engineers to design and build proactive methods to enhance our security posture.

This position is responsible for overseeing auditing, analyzing, coordinating, and implementing security measures enhance security posture within T-Mobile data, SaaS, mobile device, IoT device, enterprise line of business applications, cloud, big data, and core and carrier network technologies as well as other business units as needed. Collaborate with Engineering & Operations Teams to address security vulnerabilities found via PSIRTs, scans or breaches. Also, drive and support network security standard processes.

Job Responsibilities

  • Leads security, compliance, and risk assessments on projects throughout project lifecycle.
  • Improves process efficiency by creating and implementing creative and sustainable changes to existing deployment methodologies.
  • Leads the identification of security needs & recommends plans/resolutions.
  • Implements, tests & monitors info security improvements.
  • Maintains visibility inside & outside of information security at the People management level.
  • Communicate with groups such as application support, engineering ops, finance, privacy, risk management, etc.
  • Leads information security policy lifecycle throughout, including intake, creation, review, approval, implementation, publishing, communication & maintenance.
  • Implements security projects driven by groups both internal and external to info security.
  • Mentors, peers and junior team members in security technologies, enterprise solution design and facilitation and effective customer interaction
  • 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.
  • Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.
  • Assist the team as a technical administrator across the organization
  • Complete research and remediation of folder and share permission issues, including end-user management notification.
  • Coordinate remediation efforts with domain experts and owners
  • Engage with end-users to help and training and troubleshooting where necessary
  • Vendor management and effort coordination
  • Ad hoc duties and accountabilities as directed by special projects
  • Support, manage, implement, and design compliance and security solutions and infrastructure
  • Track and report your work continuously (JIRA and Confluence) and provide weekly status reports on your projects/goals
  • Participate in on-call rotation and be an escalation point for junior engineers
  • Provide detailed Root Cause and Post-incident analyses
  • Document processes, designs, configurations, lessons learned, improvements, etc.
  • Follow the T-Mobile's Incident and Change Management procedure
  • Recognize problems and opportunities, evaluate, innovate, and automate to address
  • Develop goals, objectives, operational metrics, service catalogs, run books, development plans, and more to ensure we continually improve our service delivery to internal customers


Education and Work Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent work experience
  • 4-7 years Experience in info security technology or related field
  • Experience with incident handling for Security breaches.
  • Expert in security subject areas
  • 2-4 years Technical Project Management
  • Experience with high level design architecture, security technologies, Networking, web services and SOA. Understanding of encryption, obfuscation, tokenization technologies


Preferred Experience

  • Previous experience managing, deploying, and designing the DSPM and/or SSPM solution (preferred Varonis and/or Obsidian)
  • Proven Cloud server deployment and support experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Expert in Data Security realm (DSPM, some DLP, Data Classification, etc.)
  • Proven remediation experience for sensitive data in clear text and over-shared/exposed.
  • Expert in implementing, supporting and remeidating SaaS Security Posture Management solutions (ex – Obsidian, Wiz, etc.)
  • Experience in developing and writing security policies and standards.
  • Medium to advance knowledge of Scripting tools (Python/Perl/Shell/HTML/PHP)
  • Knowledge of federal & compliance regulations e.g. SOX, PCI & CPNI
  • Familiarity with load balancers (ex – A10, F5), firewalls (ex – CheckPoint), Venafi, MDM (ex - Mobile Iron), Cloud (ex - AWS, Azure), Malware Protection (ex -FireEye),Accounts (ex – CyberArk), SIEM (ex – MS Sentinel), Log & Event (ex – Splunk), Intrusion IDS/IPS (ex – Symantec) , Cloud Platform (ex – PCF, Docker), Scanning (ex – Tenable)
  • Solid understanding of T-Mobile’s network elements and how they work together (EIT, Engineering & 3rd Party).
  • Strong presentation skills to large and small audiences.
  • In-depth knowledge of security best practices in large-scale environments
  • Strong problem solving / troubleshooting skills.
  • Dedicated and able to work under tight timelines.
  • Always act with tact and integrity, and interface with a variety of individuals in a positive and productive manner.
  • Strong verbal and communication skills with diverse multi-functional groups & the ability to communicate effectively to small & large groups.
  • Knowledge of information security policies and regulatory controls (per team function)
  • Demonstrable knowledge of current technological trends and developments in info security
  • Ability to plan, organize and prioritize tasks to complete independently
  • Experience with implementation of various threat modeling approaches pertaining to one or more of the following STRIDE, PASTA, TRIKE, ATTACK TREE, DREAD, KILL CHAIN, CAPEC, Mobile Application threat model, Cyber Threat Tree, and data flow diagram.
  • Authority in multiple facets of network & information security, including Firewall policy design, SSL Certificate management, vulnerability analysis & mitigation, and other topics as assigned.
  • Experience with the analysis of underlying technologies that form the solution necessary for the application of threat identification, analysis, and thread model design.
  • Some experience with supporting and securing on-prem and cloud Database technologies (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Nice to have AI Security experience (AI Model Security reviews, Shadow AI, AI-SPM, etc.)

Licenses and Certifications

  • CISSP and/or CCSK and/or CCSP and/or CISA/CISM and/or Security+ certification a plus
  • Varonis VDD and/or VCD certifications

Our team is dynamic where no day is the same, and we are a diverse and inclusive team passionate about growth and innovation! If you're up to the challenge, apply today!

  • At least 18 years of age
  • 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: $103,400 - $186,400

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

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.

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, click here.

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