The Engineer IV - Information Security, Tools and Engineering, is is a senior technical contributor responsible for the administration, configuration, maintenance and continuous improvement of enterprise security tools and the underlying infrastructure platforms that support them.
This role serves as a technical leader within the Information Security organization, ensuring security technologies are highly available, securely configured, integrated with enterprise systems and aligned with organizational security objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Deploy, configure, maintain and optimize enterprise security tools, including new tool features and tool integrations
- Manage tool lifecycle activities including upgrades, migrations, patching, capacity planning and decommissioning
- Primary technical owner for assigned security tools/platforms
- Develop automation and an engineering first approach to reduce manual efforts
- Partner with security operations to ensure tools support operational workflows
- Establish metrics, KPIs and maturity roadmaps for security tooling effectiveness
- Ensure tools are configured, proactively monitored and maintained according to security best practices
- Participate in change management operations and other shared duties
Requirements:
- 4-year bachelors degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience required
- 8+ years of experience in security technical experience
- 5+ years of experience in network security
- Experience with deploying and maintaining enterprise security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, VM, Cloud Security and Security Orchestration and Automation tools
- Strong scripting and automation skills including Python and experience building automation workflows, integrations or tooling to support security operations
- Experience with Windows and Linux server administration
This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.
The pay range is $135,800 - $183,800.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.
