Cybersecurity Staff Engineer - Anti-virus

Company: The Home Depot
Location: Pflugerville
Posted on: July 31, 2020

Job Description:

POSITION PURPOSE
At The Home Depot, our Cybersecurity team plays a pivotal role in creating and implementing solutions to protect our associates, customers, and communities from internal and external security threats.

Works closely with a team of highly motivated engineers who innovate, support, and maintain cyber solutions for the world's largest home improvement retailer. As a member of the Cybersecurity Operations and Resilience group, they support and maintain Endpoint security solutions across The Home Depot enterprise.
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et's protect the future of retail together.
MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 20% - Strategy & Planning:Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, and security architectures for products Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support Participates in project planning and management across multiple efforts Develops formal training courses--
• 30% - Delivery & Execution: Leads configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met Leads field and corporate roll-outs of technology Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software--
• 40% - Support & Enablement: Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues Provides application support for software running in production Creates scripts and tools that drive automation and enable product teams and end users to move towards self service Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers--
• 10% - Learning: Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice) Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizationsNATURE AND SCOPE
  Typically reports to the Systems Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager.
  
  ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
  Environment:
  Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
  Travel:
  Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
  
  Education Required:
  The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
  
  Years of Relevant Work Experience: 3 years
  
  Physical Requirements:
  Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
  Hands-on and management experience specific endpoint security tools such as McAfee, MS Defender, Tanium, CrowdStrike and other like services.
  Professional experience as a Security Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer or Network Engineer; familiarity with at least one other discipline, and interest in growing in the remaining disciplines
  Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team
  Experience with infrastructure, network, or security troubleshooting and remediation
  Experience installing and upgrading applications or databases and performing system maintenance
  Familiarity with system and environment analysis and design
  Familiarity with networking, system and hardware design and architecture, DBMS concepts, SQL programming, and client server concepts
  Familiarity with debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools
  Experience with operating system commands and utilities as well as scripting with PowerShell
  
  Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
  
  • Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
  • Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
  • Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization s goals
  • Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
  • Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
  • Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
  • Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
  • Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
  • Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
  • Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
  • Self-Development: Actively seeing new ways to grow and be challenged, using both formal and informal development channels
  • Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

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