Alternate Locations: Work from Home
Work Arrangement: Remote : Work at home employee residing outside of a commutable distance to an office location.
Relocation assistance: is not available for this opportunity.
Requisition : 73662
The Role at a Glance Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) is looking for a team-oriented network security engineer. This position is primarily responsible for implementing, maintaining, and administering the network security tools for preventing, detecting, and responding to security events. S/he will work closely with other LFG security and infrastructure teams to configure and tune tools per security requirements to facilitate business objectives.
What you'll be doing - Collaborates with LFG security and infrastructure teams as needed to configure and ensure appropriate data flows and integration with various systems.
- Assess and assists in the development of network security requirements and evaluate security services and technologies.
- Identifies systems misconfigurations and serves as a resource to others to correct and analyze the configurations.
- Maintains availability of security technologies, including but not limited to intrusion prevention system (IPS) and web application firewall (WAF) especially system health, upgrades, logs, and policies.
- Manages and provides engineering support to endpoint and network detection/response (EDR/NDR) solutions including client and system health, upgrades, protection policies, and logs.
- Manage LFG multifactor authentication (MFA) infrastructure health and availability. Collaborate with other LFG security teams as needed on configurations and enforcement for user and application access.
- Reviews firewall security policies and profiles and makes recommendations to LFG infrastructure teams as needed based on security best practices.
- Maintain LFG secure web gateway including traffic steering configuration, client health, and client configuration.
- Proactively identify and determine priority for any network security gaps and facilitate collaboration between LFG security and infrastructure teams as needed.
- Partners with project teams ensuring control techniques are incorporated into the overall security model regarding operating systems, applications, database management, and network management.
- Provide clear and concise documentation of technical solutions and communicate plans to management and customers.
- Assesses new and changing security needs and selects the right tools for those needs.
- Builds scripts and techniques to automate and speed up tasks.
- Researches, evaluates, and recommends new or improved information security software and tools.
What we're looking for - 7 - 10+ years of Information Security / Infrastructure Protection experience that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities of this position.
- Four-Year undergraduate degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
- Strong networking knowledge and understanding of traffic flow.
- Strong security policy implementation experience.
- Network security architecture and design experience.
- Experience with installation, deployment, and management of security tools/devices, both hardware and software.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud networking in Amazon and Microsoft cloud environments.
- Experience in deploying, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting secure web gateway.
- Knowledge of National Institute of Standards and Technology Cyber Security Framework, MITRE Adversary Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge, Center for Internet Security Critical Security Controls, and similar frameworks.
- Scripting experience - Python, PowerShell, and Shell scripting
What's it like to work here? At Lincoln Financial, we love what we do. We make meaningful contributions each and every day to empower our customers to take charge of their lives. Working alongside dedicated and talented colleagues, we build fulfilling careers and stronger communities through a company that values our unique perspectives, insights and contributions and invests in programs that empower each of us to take charge of our own future.
What's in it for you: - Clearly defined career tracks and job levels, along with associated behaviors for each of Lincoln's core values and leadership attributes
- Leadership development and virtual training opportunities
- PTO/parental leave
- Competitive 401K and employee benefits
- Free financial counseling, health coaching and employee assistance program
- Tuition assistance program
- Work arrangements that work for you
- Effective productivity/technology tools and training
The pay range for this position is $108,501 - $195,900 with
anticipated pay for new hires between the minimum and midpoint of the range and could vary above and below the listed range as permitted by applicable law. Pay is based on non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, education, location, licensure requirements, proficiency and qualifications required for the role. The base pay is just one component of Lincoln's total rewards package for employees. In addition, the role may be eligible for the Annual Incentive Program, which is discretionary and based on the performance of the company, business unit and individual. Other rewards may include long-term incentives, sales incentives and Lincoln's standard benefits package.
About The Company Lincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC) helps people to confidently plan for their version of a successful future. We focus on identifying a clear path to financial security, with products including annuities, life insurance, group protection, and retirement plan services.
With our 120-year track record of expertise and integrity, millions of customers trust our solutions and service to help put their goals in reach.
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