Actalent Engineering has a Fortune 500 Telecommunications client in Raleigh, NC, hiring a remote Application Security Engineer to join their team!

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with our internal engineering, operations, and network teams, as well as our client's corporate security teams to review new architecture/solutions and provide security recommendations and requirements. Ensure our solutions are designed and implemented to the highest security standards.
• Conduct security assessments of our existing environment, analyze results, identify risks/gaps, work with IOT Control Center teams on remediation activities and/or compensating controls, and track remediation efforts to completion.
• Monitor current security alerts/vulnerabilities identified through our logging/scanning solutions and follow up with our teams on a resolution for those alerts/vulnerabilities.
• Participate as a member of the incident response team by conducting forensic analysis and troubleshooting to assist in the containment and remediation of security incidents.
• Improve the efficiency and/or automate security and compliance team processes.
• Provide recommendations on security products and solutions, including encryption technologies, secrets storage, certificate management, intrusion detection/prevention, identity and access management, and security scanning and assessment tools for traditional on-prem and AWS environments
• Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the information security industry, including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes, and identifying current and new attacks and threat vectors that might affect our environment.

Minimum Qualifications and Technical Expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in an information technology discipline
• 3+ years of hands-on information security operations experience
• Technical experience designing security within web applications (we use java, go)
• Hand-on experience working in Linux environments
• Knowledge in the 4G/5G network space and understanding of security
• Experience with Docker containers
• Experience designing and managing security processes (access management, vulnerability management, incident management, etc.)
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages: UNIX Shell, PowerShell, JavaScript, JSON, Perl, Ruby
• Understanding of a wide range of security technologies, such as network security appliances, identity and access management systems, anti-malware solutions, file integrity monitoring system, security scanning tools, etc.
• AWS/Public Cloud experience a plus

About Actalent:

Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.