What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Security Engineer position at INSPYR Solutions?
Title: Sr. Security Engineer
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid - onsite 3 days a week in downtown)
Duration: Direct-Hire
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the US.
Key Points:
- This position requires strong experience in Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon. These are both hard requirements.
- The role will be onsite 3 days a week in downtown Houston
The IT Advisor (Sr. Security Engineer) is responsible for supporting cybersecurity operations, regulatory compliance, and infrastructure initiatives across both IT and OT environments. This includes managing Splunk deployments and logging infrastructure across plant sites, overseeing the CrowdStrike Falcon console for policy tuning, alert triage, and endpoint visibility, and assisting in incident response planning and remediation through SOP development. The role also involves tuning Fortinet alerts to improve visibility for legacy systems, communicating technical updates and guidance through email and Teams collaboration, and working cross-functionally to ensure secure and compliant operations across the enterprise. Daily participation in cyber risk and threat intelligence briefings with the CSOC team and support for governance efforts such as NERC CIP and TSA IT GRC are also key responsibilities.
In addition to these core duties, the IT Advisor works across all 14 cybersecurity technical disciplines and provides leadership and guidance to the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Security Operations Center. This requires a broad understanding of security tools and frameworks, strong communication skills, and the ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to maintain a robust and resilient cybersecurity posture.
May require a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and 6-8 years of experience in the specialized field with additional experience in other IT areas. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager.
Job Responsibilities
- In-depth or broad, extensive knowledge.
- Highly skilled professional with wide-ranging, advanced technical experience to resolve complex issues.
- Competent to work at very high level in multiple knowledge areas or functions as an advanced contributor.
- Makes decisions on complex issues regarding project components and advanced tasks.
- Leads the researches for innovations from external sources, and identifies opportunities to develop new processes, tools, services and techniques within the function.
- Works on complex issues and projects.
- Uses independent judgment requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Independently selects methods, techniques, analytical approach and evaluation criteria.
- Determines methods and procedures for new assignments.
- Serves as project/technical lead on medium to large projects; regularly coordinates work of professionals, technicians and others outside of own department.
- Trains and mentors employees on technical skills.
Job Requirements
- Experience with Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon is a requirement.
- Experience with Microsoft Sentinel is preferred.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
- In-depth experience across knowledge areas and multiple functions including project management; typically requires 10 years in area of specialization.
About INSPYR Solutions:
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
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