Senior Lead Information Security Engineer

The Information Security Engineer is responsible for maintaining and evolving a successful security engineering function within Information Security. The security engineering team owns successful deployment and operation of security monitoring tools and processes designed for real-time analysis of events and alerts generated across the enterprise to protect the company’s assets, solutions, and services by reducing time to triage security incidents and risks.  This role coordinates security capabilities and industry best practices with all areas of the enterprise.

Key responsibilities include:

• Implement necessary monitoring policies, reference architectures, and procedures in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements covering internal and external parties, regulated and non-regulated physical, operational and business systems throughout the enterprise
• Assist in satisfying specific requirements to ensure security of the environment in compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Nuclear Cyber (10 CFR 73.54)
• Execute on strategy & technology roadmap for the Security Information Event Management (SIEM) platform
• Drive process excellence and maturity to push the envelope on delivering a world-class Cyber Security function to protect Entergy against cyber threats
• Support life-cycle management of the SIEM platform, including assistance with coordination and planning of upgrades, new deployments, and maintenance of current operational systems
• Execute on world-class cyber defense capability for all information technology and operational technology assets including power generation units, nuclear plants, electric substations, SCADA, distribution automation, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), email, and networks.
• Work closely with Consolidated Security Operations Center (CSOC), Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM), other internal/external teams and management in a 24×7 operational environment
• Execute the processes to monitor, analyze, and correlate logs and alerts across multiple platforms to identify advanced threats or incidents affecting the enterprise aiding in the development of use case content.  This includes logs, network, endpoints, authentication, and web activity
• Assist in maintaining documentation and evidence to be used for after action reporting and/or legal evidence
• Monitor and respond to regulatory developments and industry best practices, with manager direction
• Accountable for execution of security engineering support of all device classes (server, desktop, mobile, etc.), hosting models (on-premise, external, cloud) and applications to which security platforms apply
• Work closely with all teams in Information Security to implement use cases for monitoring
• Deliver on KPIs to measure effectiveness of security engineering and report trends
• Support security orchestration efforts and help to identify opportunities for automation
• Collaborate and work across other IT and Information Security areas to design and onboard new systems to follow monitoring standards and best practices
• Oversee and review work of junior resources as needed

Minimum Experience required:

• Five to Seven years of cyber security experience across multiple disciplines (monitoring, logging, event correlation, configuration, behavior analytics, network engineering, application security, database, risk management, project management, etc.)
• Minimum of 1 years of experience working with Security Information Event Management platforms, like Splunk
• Experience working with outsourced teams

• Experience with vulnerability management, event management, security operations, incident management, and security reporting
• Experience in designing, building, implementing, and supporting security monitoring solutions

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position:

• Demonstrated technical engineering and process management skills and the ability to advocate and support positive transformation within the broader information technology organization
• Broad knowledge of multiple UNIX OS platforms and Windows-based operating systems
• Well-versed in security operations, cyber security monitoring, intrusion detection, and secured networks
• Strong knowledge of security ramifications of energy related regulations (SOX, HIPAA, NERC CIP, FERC, and NRC Nuclear Cyber (10 CFR 73.54)
• Knowledge of security, risk, and control frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001 and 27002, SANS-CAG, NIST, FISMA, COBIT, COSO and ITIL
• Knowledge of current IT Security trends and best practices in technology, as well as monitoring best practices and tools
• Working knowledge with scripting languages such as Perl or Python
• Strong understanding of cloud computing and patterns involved in monitoring across cloud, hosted and on-prem architectures.
• Strong report writing and communication and ability to effectively communicate across the IT organization
• The ability to work well independently or with a team
• Available to travel
• Capable of meeting deadlines

Minimum Education required:

Associate’s degree in computer science, cyber security or a related discipline or equivalent work experience.

Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Any certificates, licenses, etc., required for the position:

ISACA certification, such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or GIAC certifications preferred

Vendor credentials offered by companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, or Splunk

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Primary Location: Arkansas–Little Rock
Job Function: Information Technology
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 102223
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the full statement.

WORKING CONDITIONS: 

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.