United States onlyTalcott Financial Group is seeking a Senior IT Security Engineer to advance their enterprise security strategy. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong analytical capabilities, and the ambition to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
Requirements
- Analyze and interpret advanced cyber threats, providing clear, actionable insights.
- Stay ahead of emerging risks by maintaining a strong understanding of the evolving threat landscape.
- Communicate security issues and recommended remediation clearly to technical teams and executive stakeholders.
- Oversee critical security services, including vulnerability management, firewalls, certificate management, SOC operations, and data loss prevention.
- Design, engineer, and maintain secure identity platforms across Active Directory and Entra ID.
- Lead the architecture, governance, and automation of cloud security controls.
- Implement and manage PKIaaS to streamline enterprise certificate lifecycle management.
- Evaluate new technologies through research and proof‐of‐concept efforts, advising leadership on impactful security investments.
- Advise business and IT partners on building secure processes and systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar field.
- Minimum of 10 years of cybersecurity or relevant IT experience.
- Professional certifications (CISSP, GIAC, ISACA, etc.) are preferred
- Deep experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, and Entra ID are required
- Hands‐on expertise with network security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, malware defense, DDoS/bot mitigation, proxies, ACLs, wireless security). Palo Alto experience is a plus.
- Experience with cloud security across Azure, Oracle Cloud, and O365.
- Strong understanding of enterprise threat analysis, mitigation strategies, and application‐layer security.
- Solid knowledge of networking and web protocols (TCP/IP, HTTPS, IPsec, DNS).
- Experience conducting network and application vulnerability assessments.
- Familiarity with encryption, data protection, DLP, and endpoint security.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
- Understanding AI cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies.
- Deep experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, and Entra ID.
- Practical understanding of container and API security concepts (image scanning, runtime protection, secrets management, gateway/WAF, auth/z, rate limiting).
- Proven ability to collaborate across organizational and vendor teams.
- Strong decision‐making skills with the ability to balance security and business needs in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- Recognition
