Senior Staff Security Engineer

Company: Illumio
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

No Agency Submissions Accepted

What We Are About

The Illumio Information Security team is responsible for securing our products, our data, and our technology assets. We believe security is an enabler, and our objective is to help the business be successful. As Senior Staff Security Engineer, you will be responsible for helping your stakeholders strike the right risk balance, as well as designing, implementing, and improving security controls to protect our crown jewels. But you won't be alone - although we are specialists each in our own way, we wear many hats and work collaboratively to help each other be successful.

What You Will Accomplish

• Collaborate across Illumio to architect and secure all aspects of our cloud and on-premise environments
  
• Build, deploy, and automate security solutions to support our defense-in-depth strategy, using a mixture of commercial, open-source, and in-house tools
  
• Be our own customer, using Illumio's products to secure our systems
  
• Continually improve the effectiveness of our tools, and implement new approaches to address the changing threat landscape
  
• Perform threat hunting, event monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and other activities as required to get the job done
  
• Mentor others as you yourself gain knowledge and experience
  
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation
  
  
  What You Will Bring
  
  
  • 5+ years of experience in security or an adjacent field, performing one or more of the following:
    
  • Securing systems running Linux, macOS, and Windows
    
  • Securing IaaS, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
    
  • Using firewalls of various types to secure enterprise networks
    
  • Securing business cloud services, such as Okta, Office 365, and Salesforce
    
  • Using security logs and other forensic methods to identify and contain threats
    
  • Leading or participating in cross-functional incident response
    
  • Strong scripting and automation skills, ideally in Python and/or Ruby.
    
  • A data-driven, analytical mindset.
    
  • The ability to express yourself clearly when communicating.
    
    
    Who We Are
    
    Illumio enables organizations to realize a future without high-profile breaches by providing visibility, segmentation, and control of all network communications across any data center or cloud. Founded in 2013, the world's largest enterprises, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Salesforce, and Oracle NetSuite, trust Illumio to reduce cyber risk. For more information, visit

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