Senior Security Engineer

Position Type: Full-Time
Location: Seattle, WA - preferred (open to remote)
Reports to: Infrastructure Manager

About us

In 1897 C.C. Filson began outfitting prospectors headed for the Gold Rush with tools and apparel strong enough for the toughest spots on earth. More than 100 years later, Filson remains committed to providing pioneers of all fields around the world with unfailing goods made from the highest quality materials available.
Filson recognizes that it takes a world-class team to make a world-class product. As we build on the Filson legacy of American craftsmanship, we are looking for individuals who share our dedication to innovation, excellence, and superior customer service.

Job Summary
The Senior Security Engineer will plan, implement, upgrade, and monitor security protocols for the protection of the organization’s computer networks and information. This position works closely with our infrastructure and applications teams daily to fulfill the organization’s IT security needs. Our IT department has a growing security practice which in this role you will help to form and mature through setting policy and determining best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with users to discuss computer data access needs, to identify security
  threats and violations, and to identify and recommend needed programming or process
  changes.
• Sets and enforces policy for the organization’s data encryption, firewalls, and other
  security tools and applications to conceal and protect transfers of confidential digital
  information.
• Develops and implements plans to safeguard digital data from accidental or
  unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure; adheres to emergency data
  processing needs.
• Reviews violations of security procedures; provides training to ensure violations do not
  reoccur.
• Manages the organizations security awareness training program.
• Monitors and restricts access to sensitive, confidential, or other high-security data.
• Modifies security files and applications as able and necessary to provide specialized
  access, allow new software to be installed or integrated, or correct errors.
• Performs risk assessments, audits, and tests to ensure proper functioning of data
  processing activities and security measures.
• Safeguards system security and improves overall server and network efficiency by
  training users and promoting security awareness.
• Determines when to update virus protection systems by monitoring current reports of
  computer viruses; facilitates or performs needed updates.
• Analyze IT requirements and provide objective advice on the use of IT security
  requirements

Required Skills

• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proficient, or able to gain proficiency with, a broad array of security software applications and tools.
• Thorough understanding of computer-related security systems including firewalls, encryption, and IDPS concepts.
• Experienced with penetration testing and techniques.
• Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities.
• Advanced knowledge of operating system internals and security mechanisms.
• Experience analyzing attacker techniques that leverage email and cloud-service tactics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Organized with attention to detail.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Programming, or a related field required
• At least three years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing.

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• Benefits including medical, dental, vision and prescription insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 15 paid vacation/sick days 
• 10 paid corporate holidays 
• 2 paid volunteer days
• Merchandise discounts
• Short Term Incentive Plan 

Physical Requirements:

• Able to sit and work at desk and operate a computer for several hours at a time.
• Use hands and fingers to use computer
• Reach up, across, or down to retrieve resources
• See, talk, and hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk
• The employee is occasionally required to move or lift up to 10 pounds
• Specific hearing abilities required by this job include the hearing voices through telephone handsets or headsets and through general face to face conversation
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to read information on a computer screen or on a printed page

Note: This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive. Employee may be required to perform other duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Filson is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that every employee has the right to work in surroundings which are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. It is our policy that all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship will be made without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, veteran and military status, genetic information, political ideology or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Discrimination and/or harassment based on any of those factors are totally inconsistent with our philosophy of doing business and will not be tolerated.
With regard to applicants or employees with disabilities, the company offers what the law refers to as "reasonable accommodation" to enable a person to perform his or her job.

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