Synchrony Financial Hiring For Information Security Engineer (L08) at India Full Time

Role Summary/Purpose:

The Information Security Engineer will be a key role in safeguarding the organizations systems, networks, and data in the cloud. The position is responsible for monitoring and driving remediation of Cloud Security alerts. In addition, this role will be responsible for identifying trends in cloud alerts, communicating effectively and efficiently with cloud platform users, and participating in Cloud Security team meetings.

This position is remote, where you have the option to work from home. On occasion we may request for you to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events. To ensure the safety of our colleagues and communities, we require employees who come together in-person to be fully vaccinated. We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Monitor cloud platform compliance via Cloud Security Posture Management tools

• Enforce cloud security hardening requirements across cloud environment via alert remediation

• Continuously evaluate and improve cloud security team processes to bolster efficiency and reduce manual work

• Effectively communicate importance of cloud security to application teams

• Document and maintain metrics certifying cloud security posture

• Plays a key role in identifying misconfigurations of policy or alertswhich safeguard the organization’s platforms and systems

• Identifies problems and clearly articulates solutions and recommendations

• Collaborates with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions to address, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions

• Partners with peers within the organization to effectively prioritize work by using agile processes and ensuring risks, impediments, and asks are brought to leadership in a timely fashion

• Maintaining technology from a business as usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, incident management, disaster recover processes are occurring and current

• Providing day to day operations support for technology and processes, ensuring superior customer service is being met, and identifying process improvements

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in Technology OR High School Diploma/GED and a minimum of 4+ years or experience in Technology

• Minimum of 2 years in Information Security.

• For Internal Applicants: Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying.

• Inform your Manager or HRM before applying for any role on Workday.

• Ensure that your Professional Profile is updated (fields such as Education, Prior experience, Other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

• Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• Level 5+ employees can apply

Desired Characteristics:

• Engineering and/or architecture experience

• Cyber Security experience, especially around designing, building and management solutions

• Understanding of information security practices and policies, including risks and threats

• Good understanding of security landscape as a whole

• Experience working in AWS with services such as Guard Duty, Cloudtrail, Lambda, Cloudformation, IAM, Config, etc

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud

• Experience handling and responding to cloud alerts

• Knowledge of SIEM tools such as Splunk

• Understanding of compliance requirements and tools for the public cloud

• Creativity and individual thinking, and the ability to work both with a team and unsupervised

• Strong and efficient problem-solving and analytical skills, willingness to learn

• Understanding of public cloud platforms from an infrastructure and development aspect

• Ability to work under pressure and sustain productivity with multiple simultaneous projects

• Familiarity with problem and incident management, change management, notifications, and basic operational understanding of running and maintaining infrastructure

• Good teamwork, oral and written communication

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