Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Chicago, IL, United States

Position Information

Hiring Manager:

Director

Department:

Technology Solutions

Title:

Vice President

Function:

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Department Overview

The Technology Solutions Department is responsible for designing and delivering state of the art technology solutions that are designed to create efficiency, mitigate risk and grow revenue for the Firm. Technology Solutions is also responsible for defining, managing, and executing a robust Cyber Security program following the NIST Cyber Security Framework. Technology Solutions focuses on technical excellence through innovative application designs, robust data integration and analytics, high availability infrastructure and gold level service for our key stakeholders with information security embedded throughout. Critical functions within Technology Solutions include Project Management, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Enterprise Data Governance and Stewardship, Application Development and 3rd Party Integration, Strategic and Secure Infrastructure, and Operations. The Technology Solutions Department collaborates closely with Firm leadership and business unit heads to develop plans in line with business objectives.

Position Responsibilities

The Technology Solutions Department is seeking an individual with a passion for information security and a desire to champion security best practices to join our Cybersecurity Operations team. This role will focus on planning, designing and executing security-related projects, processes and procedures in a Microsoft-oriented environment. Areas of focus for this position will include managing the Microsoft Defender Security Suite, incident response, threat hunting, improvements to our detection and protection capabilities and vendor security reviews. The hire will work with Technology Solutions Team and business units to assess risks and security issues and propose solutions. The individual may also be involved in investigation and reporting of security incidents as necessary.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Managing the Microsoft Defender XDR platform deployed at the Firm including Sentinel, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Applications, Defender for Office and Defender for Cloud

Performing incident response on security events

Performing threat hunting activities and creating new detections and protections based on the results of those hunts

Designing, developing and implementing improvements to our security detection and protection capabilities

Security projects include: (1) developing roadmaps, requirements and architectures for project, (2) collaborating and supporting other Technology Solutions teams on the security components of cross team projects and (3) ensuring a smooth transition from initial solution through architecture, implementation and steady state operations

Engaging with vendors on support issues and performing regular product and business reviews

Providing Level 3 problem management and troubleshooting

Providing documentation on security processes and best practices for the Service Desk team

Meeting deadlines and collaborating with internal and external Technology Solutions Teams

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications & Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

10+ years of experience supporting information security, incident response, executing security-related projects and applying security best practices in a medium-to-large sized organization

3+ years of experience implementing or managing the Microsoft Defender security suite

Demonstrated prior experience planning and executing the security components of a Microsoft-centric technology organization

Experience writing Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries in Sentinel and Defender Advanced Hunting

Active Directory and Azure Active Directory / Entra ID security

Microsoft Azure cloud security and administration

PowerShell scripting experience

Business acumen to understand the impact IT security and technology has on business outcomes

Critical Competencies for Success

Our Gold Standards Model defines key behaviors and competencies across 4 dimensions: Leadership, Achieving Results, Personal Effectiveness and Thinking Critically. These behaviors and competencies drive our ability to win together. Leadership: Role models in this area consistently focus on the right goals and priorities and continually develop themselves and others. Always team players, they influence and engage with others to contribute to a supportive and inclusive culture where all feel welcome.

Achieving Results: Role models in this area are high achievers who develop careful plans and deliver consistently and effectively. They hold themselves and others accountable for delivering high quality results, and they remove barriers to ensure others can contribute and grow.

Thinking Critically: Role models in this area understand our business, rely on analytical reasoning and seek diverse perspectives to solve problems. They are forward thinking, anticipating issues and addressing them in advance.

Personal Effectiveness: Role models in this area build strong relationships, treat others with respect and communicate effectively. They are driven to exceed expectations and are adaptable to changing circumstances.

The department-specific competencies define the knowledge, skills and abilities that are needed to successfully perform the functional or technical work of this role. Technical Support: Triages, troubleshoots and resolves technical support issues. Escalates issues as needed.

Software Development Principals: Utilizes software development, secure programming principles and a knowledge of programming languages to develop, configure and / or integrate new software and applications.

Business Needs Assessment: Identifies business needs across departments within the Firm to understand the challenges, goals and problems that the business needs to solve and identifies appropriate technical solutions.

Data Management and Information Security: Manipulates, restructures and / or queries data for various purposes, including reconciling issues in the database, designing database structures and / or generating reports. Adheres to governance principles and maintains data integrity and security.

Risk Management: Identifies, forecasts and articulates ways to pursue and manage informed risks in ambiguous, complex or uncertain situations based on sound value propositions and an analysis of potential rewards and costs.

Testing: Evaluates the functionality of an application, system or solution to ensure that requirements have been met and defects have been identified. Applies an understanding of end user requirements and usage in the end-to-end system to produce a quality product.

Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates an understanding of the Firm's position in the industry, including its complex structure and competitive advantage in the marketplace. Monitors industry trends and changes and recognizes their relevancy and implications.

Technical Communication and Documentation: Documents and communicates technical processes and procedures in area of specialty to stakeholders. Adapts the level of detail and specificity based on the needs of the intended audience.

Vendor Management: Manages and coordinates with external vendors. Researches and identifies new vendors as needed and monitors performance.

Relationship Management: Builds and maintains effective partnerships with internal clients and end users by advising on their needs and options, advocating for their business within the Technology Solutions department and managing expectations appropriately.

Project / Program Management: Manages Technology Solutions project elements considering conflicting priorities, interdependencies, business objectives, communications and available resources.

Innovative Mindset: Leverages an agile and creative mindset to drive innovative value creation, continuous process improvement and proactive learning through new technology, processes and people.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Golub Capital offers a full range of benefits which includes medical, dental, vision and 401(k).

Golub Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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