Overview
Opportunity to work in a hybrid model: Potential to work 4 days onsite and 1 day remote
Why GMF Cybersecurity?
Our Cybersecurity team is tasked with the security engineering, regulatory response, third party risk, and incident response capabilities necessary to secure GM Financial, the captive auto finance subsidiary of General Motors. Reporting directly to the CEO, our Cybersecurity team enjoys unprecedented support to deliver the highest level of security capabilities using cutting edge technologies and automating mundane tasks, allowing our teams to focus on interesting and rewarding security work. As a part of GM, you’ll have the opportunity to work on Cybersecurity projects across financial services, automotive, manufacturing, high-tech, and military industries. We are looking for team players who want the freedom to innovate leading edge capabilities to join our growing Cybersecurity team.
Responsibilities
About the role:
The Sr Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for developing, deploying, monitoring, tuning, evaluating, reporting and maintaining systems and procedures to identify and mitigate threats to the corporate network, corporate assets and corporate users. This team member will identify core requirements, design and implement security technologies, and work with stakeholders to perform ongoing tuning and alerting on those technologies. Said technologies may include, but are not limited to: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Security Incident Event Management (SIEM), User Behavior Analytics, Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) and Web/Email Gateway. This team member will be responsible for both technical implementation of systems and communication of security requirements to management and security leadership.
Job Duties
- Engineer, design, install and support security technologies such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS), Security Incident and Event Managers (SIEM), Endpoint Security, Vulnerability Management (VM), Email Gateways, Breach Mitigation, Certificate Management, SSL encryption and decryption, Identity Management, Cloud Security, Database Security, Web Gateways
- Proactively identifies potential technologies to better secure enterprise information assets
- Using information from threat intelligence feeds, incident response and SIEM analysis, identifies and deploys custom rules and policies to security technologies to further protect information assets
- Works with cybersecurity management to develop and implement project plans to rapidly mature security initiatives
- Participation in periodic information systems risk assessments, as well as emergency response team activities for responding to various security incidents
- Prepare and update information procedures, standards and/or other technical requirement documents
- Develop detailed proposals and plans for new information security systems that would enhance or enable new capabilities for network or host systems
- Recommends and evaluates security tools to identify more efficient and effective security measures
Qualifications
What makes you a dream candidate?
- Local and wide area networking concepts, principles and protocols
- Advanced knowledge in Infrastructure design and management
- Working knowledge of management processes such as personnel administration, planning and budgeting
- Strong technical skills and hands on experience in information security as it relates to server security, client security, user security, network communications and data storage
- Practical experience implementing security solutions, specifically Data Loss Prevention and performing initial tuning and scanning for confidential data in the environment
- Proven expertise developing custom rule sets for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools to identify specific data types based on feedback and requirements from business stakeholders including Compliance and Legal Counsel
- Practical experience scaling DLP solutions to meet enterprise data sizes and performing tuning to manage the amount of alerting that occurs
- Strong knowledge of IT technologies and methods to secure them, specifically for databases, SharePoint, storage area networking, cloud-based storage, and data warehouses
- Strong working knowledge of Intel platforms, iSeries and pSeries servers
- Advanced understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices and processes
- Experience with UML Design Tools
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI model and imp subnetting
- High level understanding of technology infrastructure, security concepts and platforms
- Demonstrated success in project management
- Advanced knowledge of IBM pSeries hardware, operating systems and TSM backup infrastructure
- Advanced knowledge of the OSI model and security that is associated with each layer
- Understanding of routing and switching protocols as they relate to load balancing
- Strong understanding of application layer protocols including HTTP, SSH, SSL and DNS
- Knowledge and stay abreast on the latest security and privacy legislation, regulations, advisories, alerts and vulnerabilities
- Knowledge of IT security processes and controls as well as IT infrastructure and networking technical knowledge
- Possess strong understanding of cloud technologies and concepts
- Experience securing cloud deployments on common platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform (no minimum of two years)
- Experience with deploying environments by defining infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Experience with declarative IaC approaches and immutable infrastructure is a plus
- Experience with securing container deployments, Kubernetes, managed Kubernetes PaaS services, Agile environments, and DevOps environments
- Experience with managing infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems and microservice architecture
- Background in scripting and automation in widely used languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, etc
- Familiarity with Terraform is a plus
Additional Skills
- Ability to think strategically and make collaborative decisions
- Ability to apply structured analysis methods to various types of data to establish trends, determine variability and business impact
- Communicates quickly, clearly, concisely, appropriately and intelligently
- Foster open communication, speaks with impact, listens to others and writes effectively
- Experience with alternate management methods using SSH, serial connections and the command-line interface TMSH
- Ability to effectively negotiate with vendors on upgrades and acquisitions
- Effective planning, time management, negotiation and delegation skills
- Expert level IT security processes and controls knowledge as well as IT infrastructure and networking technical knowledge
- Ability to approach problems with an open-mind and create new and innovative ideas and methods
- Advanced technical writing
- Experience in documentation tools such as Visio and Microsoft Office products
- Advanced information security standards/frameworks (ie, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001) skills
- Advanced experience with Network and VLAN segmentation
- Strong analytical skills and detail oriented
Experience And Education
- 3-5 years of experience in data loss prevention, cybersecurity or network operations in an enterprise environment preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience strongly preferred
Licenses
- One or more security related certifications, such as CISSP, CCNP-Security, GIAC, CEH, CPTS, is highly preferred
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 4-days a week onsite in one of our offices in the Dallas Fort-Worth metroplex
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