**How This Role Impacts Live Oak and its People**
The Senior Security Operations Engineer plays a key role in safeguarding the
organization’s data and customers. You will plan and carry out security
measures to prevent, detect and respond to cyber risk events.
**What You’ll Do at Live Oak**
You will lead the development, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of
our Security Operations controls, in support of business objectives. You will
own and complete efforts to strengthen our foundation of security across Live
Oak Bank’s modern cloud platforms and infrastructure, inclusive of SaaS, IaaS,
and PaaS systems. As a leader of our Security Engineering efforts, it is
paramount for you to display solid combination of technical, communication,
and project management skills.
**How You’ll Do It**
-Translate business requirements and lead the effort to design, deploy, configure, handle, map and evolve the technology used to maintain the Security Operations program with a strong focus on automation within cloud technologies.
-Help drive technology and roadmap decisions for detection and response capabilities.
-Serve as Engineering lead for Incident Response Team and support response efforts as needed.
-Coordinate with partner teams to execute and track Security Operations initiatives to successful outcomes.
-Develop a gap analysis program to identify, onboard, and operationalize new event sources into SIEM platform in order to continuously improve detection and response capability.
-Deploy and maintain DLP technology throughout the enterprise.
-Identify and act on opportunities to improve security posture via system tuning and automation.
-Clearly document your work, present status updates in team meetings, and articulate challenges to progress.
-Assist with responding to internal customer security requests.
-Serve as part of Tier 2 rotating issue in support of after-hours Tier 1 SOC.
-Serve as a thought-leader during the evaluation and procurement of new security technology.
-Deliver metrics related to Security Operations KPI’s.
-Create technical processes documentation and act on opportunities where processes can be improved.
**Required and Preferred Experience**
_Required:_
-5+ years of experience in cloud and/or infrastructure security within high-quality production environments.
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
-Comprehensive experience in selecting, operating, and rationalizing security tooling for common security processes, including SIEM, EDR, SEG, Proxy, vulnerability management, data protection, and data loss prevention (DLP).
-Deep understanding of security controls for modern architecture, especially AWS, Azure, & M365 services.
-Experience with threat modeling, Incident response planning and related activities.
-Experience driving efficiency and automation of security controls and/or proficient in one or more programming languages (such as Go, Python, JavaScript, java, etc.)
-Experience deploying controls to Windows, Unix/Linux and Apple Operating systems for security use cases.
-Understanding of Network Routing, Switching, ACL's and how they affect service delivery.
-Thorough knowledge of information security standard processes, guidance, and policies applicable to the financial industry
-Must be comfortable operating in fast-paced working environments while maintaining a focus on customer service and professionalism.
**Preferred:**
-Experience working in publicly traded, financial, and/or insurance organizations.
-Azure Security Engineer or AWS Security Specialty certification preferred.
-SANS Certifications with a cloud-security focus strongly preferred.
-Other combinations of training and certifications are also welcomed – be prepared to explain how it -will positively impact your performance as Senior Security Operations Engineer
-Work sponsorship is not supported, now or in the future
-Required to reside in North Carolina and be open to traveling to HQ
**Skills**
-Excellent Project Management
-Critical Thinking
-Presentation skills
-Incident Response
-SOC
-Data Loss Prevention
-M365
-Azure Active Directory
-AWS
-SIEM
-EDR
-Proxy
**Certifications**
-Azure Security Engineer or AWS Security Specialty certification
-SANS Certifications (Cloud Security focus)
**Education**
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
Live Oak Bank focuses on Banking and Finance Technology. Their company has
offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Wilmington. They have a large team that's
between 501-1000 employees.
You can view their website at <https://www.liveoakbank.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/liveoakbank?ref_src=twsrc%5egoogle%7ctwcamp%5eserp%7ctwgr%5eauthor)
and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/live-oak-bank/about/).
