Senior Security Engineer (Seattle, WA) - Northwest region
GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
GuidePoint Security is growing and expanding and looking for a Senior Security Engineer to support our customers by providing architectural guidance and assist with product recommendations. The Senior Security Engineer will be instrumental in supporting presales opportunities for various customers throughout the region. This position will spend their time supporting presales motions to recommend the best technologies and services to solve our customer’s cybersecurity problems.
Role and responsibilities:
- Serve as our Clients’ primary technical point of contact throughout the sales cycle
- Experience designing, implementing, and operationalizing security controls across a wide range of IT and enterprise business systems
- Understand and articulate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to create sales collateral to compare various solutions for the customer
- Capable of managing sales activities with multiple Account Managers across Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska and Idaho.
- Author comprehensive business and technical collateral to support the business that is proficiently tailored to both technical and managerial audiences
Experience Required:
- Security engineering experience in the Information Security industry OR as a technical lead for an internal Information Security program
- Experience with architecture, implementation and troubleshooting Development Security Operation programs, Software Life Cycle Management (SDLC) and strong knowledge of products and capabilities within the Application Security market
- Experience with architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting other Security Technologies, including but not limited to Network, Data Security, SIEM, Endpoint, etc.
- General knowledge with multiple security technologies, including but not limited to: Next-Gen Firewalls, DLP, SASE, NAC, PAM, EDR, NDR, SIEM, CWPP, CSPM, etc.
- General knowledge with AWS, Azure, or GCP products and security best practices
- General knowledge of advanced security concepts (Defense in Depth, Zero Trust etc.)
- Experience in a consultative or professional services role
- Scripting and development skills (BASH, Perl, Python, PowerShell or Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions
- Working technical knowledge of advanced security concepts (Defense in Depth, Zero Trust etc.)
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Why GuidePoint?
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,200 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.
Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some added perks….
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option