The mission of the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Information Systems Security Officer and their team is to make information security cultural and programmatic within the institute to enable NHGRI to succeed in its research mission.
What you will do
The Lead Security Engineer is responsible for supporting the IT Security tools, Vulnerability management, malware response, and compliance related activities of NHGRI. They will ensure our security tools are working as intended, assist Endpoint and Systems engineers with securing NHGRI systems, and provide security guidance to users and other IT staff.
Responsibilities:
- Act as point of escalation and provide guidance for security engineering team
- Work with NHGRI ISSO and NHGRI Security team to remediate server and workstation vulnerabilities
- Work with NHGRI ISSO and NIH IRT for security incidents by ensuring machine remediation and by reporting information as required back to the IRT
- Assist operations engineering staff with security system administration tasks
- Constantly evaluate processes and procedures being implemented at NIH and NHGRI, providing recommendations to improve IT security while balancing end user functionality.
- Implement security best practices across the NHGRI IT environment.
- Design, update, and modify security documentation.
- Manage response and remediation activities for penetration tests
If you are passionate about IT security and have the required skills and experience, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team of dedicated IT professionals.
Job Type: Full-time
