Principal Security Engineer

<p><strong>Description</strong></p>

At Citizens, we’re more than a bank. Here you’ll experience new things, create new opportunities, think beyond your role and make an impact.

While in this role, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of high-fidelity security detections, automated response workflows, and data pipelines across our enterprise security ecosystem. The successful candidate brings deep expertise with multiple security telemetry sources, as well as a deep understanding of security logging and alerting.  You will be asked to mentor junior engineers by leading collaboration both within the team and across other team including internal audit and risk.  

Most importantly, you’ll feel valued for who you are and supported to achieve what’s important to you, personally and professionally.

Primary responsibilities include

• Define and lead security initiatives across all development and cloud teams.
• Define system security requirements, architecture, design, development, evaluation, certification, and accreditation for tactical systems.
• Support security business development and acquisition activities including proposal development, estimation and technical evaluation responses.
• Apply risk management concepts to mitigate vulnerabilities in security architectures.
• Keep security content and software up to date utilizing proper change management process.
• Collaborate cross functionally with security teams to ensure we are addressing security concerns at the right level.
• Share oversight of execution on all aspects of the design, development, integration, and test of the products.

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials

• Required Qualifications
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Splunk (ES/SPL/Knowledge Objects)
  • Hands-on experience or knowledge of Cribl (Stream/Edge/Cloud), CrowdStrike, Cisco, Palo Alto, Okta, AWS, Azure
  • Extensive knowledge of security logging
  • Strong interpersonal skills, work independently, communicate effectively
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience or knowledge of CSPM tooling, and AI logging and detection 

Hours & Work Schedule

• Hours per Week: 40
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.