Systems Engineer

Acuity is seeking a Systems Engineer focused on cyber threat intelligence to monitor and actively manage the threat intelligence feeds. This includes maintaining and optimizing feed ingestion, triaging and prioritizing incoming threat data, producing threat reports and situational awareness briefings, building threat profiles and tracking adversary campaigns relevant to our industry. This position will also collaborate with our physical security intelligence area, building a shared foundation of tools, processes and practices that strengthen threat-informed decision-making across the enterprise.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Collaborate with engineers, business analysts and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into effective, secure solutions.
• Maintain integrity and excellence in your work. Proactively seeking out and offering candid, constructive feedback, delivered with professionalism and empathy, to foster continuous learning and development for yourself and your colleagues.
• Contribute to the planning and scoping of project work by providing input on effort estimation, development timelines, and deliverables.
• Passion, desire and drive to advocate, promote, and implement security.
• Manage and support security devices including testing security software products and releases.
• Review security of data related to existing systems, suggest, develop and implement changes as necessary.
• Periodically mentor other security engineers on best practices and procedures.
• Demonstrate an understanding of your team's ecosystem and proactively leverage this knowledge to enhance security functionality and inform design decisions.
• Take part in planning, designing, developing and implementing security frameworks and methodologies for new systems to ensure sound data security on all platforms.
• Proactively keep abreast of evolving trends and changes in security models and methodologies including security threats and associated methods of protection against them.
• Proficient in automation, scripting and/or programming.
• Develop and enhance Acuity IT security policies and associated standards and procedures including methods of ensuring compliance with them.
• Proficient knowledge of system architecture and design.
• Proficient in system performance monitoring, reporting and tuning.
• Participate in the Disaster and Incident Recovery tests.
• Remain abreast of company and industry directions.
• Research current and emerging threats facing the business and industry sector.
• Track threat actors including criminal, physical and cyber infrastructure as well as cyber threat actor associated malware families.
• Centralize multiple threat sources (premium, industry-shared, open-source, dark web), correlate indicators and threats, and distill actionable intelligence.
• Use automation to efficiently streamline and de-duplicate threats for playbooks, but use human analysis for actionable decision-making.
• Use and assign indicator severity and impact ratings to determine appropriate plans of action.
• Document threats into contextual reports outlining severity, urgency and impact, and ensure they can be understood by both management and technical teams.
• Contribute to the planning and scoping of project work by providing input on effort estimation, development timelines, and deliverables.
• Regular and predictable attendance as well as completing mandatory training programs as determined by Acuity.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

Minimum of Associate Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field, Bachelor's Degree is preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

A security engineer or analyst with 3-5 years of experience, insurance industry experience is a benefit.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong analytical thinker with the ability to identify, break down and develop practical solutions to moderately complex tasks and problems.
• Excellent communicator and team player, skilled at working with technical and non-technical system users and industry vendors.
• Capable of undertaking tasks with limited guidance from senior security engineers or architects.
• Proficient in creating and updating documentation, test plans, and disaster or incident recovery procedures with the ability to explain them to others.
• Self-motivated and accountable with a passion for delivering high-quality and reliable results.
• A security first mindset with a technical understanding of operating systems, network components, and secure implementations.
• Willingness to respond to problems with little notice as well as adjusting off hours scheduling to meet company project installation dates.
• Depending on job responsibilities, may be required to reside within a 2-hour radius of the Acuity corporate headquarters.
• Be accountable and respond when reached out to for assistance during and outside of typical work hours, this may include participating in an off-hour call list.

*Acuity does not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization.*

This job is classified as exempt.

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