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Senior Security Engineer

Hancock Whitney
New Orleans, LA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/7/2026 CLOSED ON 6/5/2026

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JOB FUNCTION / SUMMARY:

Design, implement, and support security controls for the company. Work as the subject matter expert for assigned controls, consulting to architects, peers, and management on opportunities and challenges. Support incident response and production outages efforts.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • With minimal supervision, maintain security controls at an operational level defined by management.
  • Assist in designing and developing various security technologies at the infrastructure, platform, and application layers.
  • Makes recommendations on best practices for configurations and operational enhancements.
  • Work on call rotation for incident response and production outages.
  • Conducts risk assessments, maturity evaluations, and threat modeling of security technologies.
  • Support management with responding to regulatory and audit inquiries.
  • Offers guidance and assistance to Security Engineers.
  • Provide direction to associates seeking technical guidance.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE:

  • Appropriate networking skills to troubleshoot network flows, routing, packet captures, TCP/IP and SSL/TLS handshakes.
  • Knowledge of server and workstation operating system security configurations.
  • Expert knowledge on various security controls to include: firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, proxies/gateways, advanced end point security controls, certificate management, authentication solutions, data loss prevention, and identity access management

ESSENTIAL MENTAL & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Ability to work under stress and meet deadlines
  • Ability to operate related equipment to perform the essential job functions
  • Ability to read and interpret a document if required to perform the essential job functions
  • Ability to travel if required to perform the essential job functions
  • Ability to lift/move/carry approximately 10 pounds if required to perform the essential job functions. If the employee is unable to lift/move/carry this weight and can be accommodated without causing the department/division an “undue hardship” then the employee must be accommodated; hence omitting lifting/moving/carrying as a physical requirement.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or history of disability, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, disabled veteran, or other protected characteristics as required by federal, state and local laws.

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