About the Role
Polsinelli strives to create an environment where team members are encouraged to bring their creativity and professional passions into the workplace so that they can thrive. We are looking for an engaging professional with a keen eye for detail who thrives in a professional environment and wants to be part of a dynamic team.
Responsibilities
- Configure business operating environments securely using CIS best practices.
- Perform penetration testing and threat hunting to identify potential risks.
- Monitor for and respond to incidents in the Firm’s hybrid environment.
- Keep infrastructure current, making recommendations and continually improving security technologies.
- Analyze, design, and develop programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities.
- Work with analysts and engineers across the organization to continually improve cyber resilience.
- Provide support to understand and develop system requirements and technical solutions for cybersecurity engineering based on system architectures (CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and NIST Cyber Security Framework).
- Support the maturation of the enterprise architecture to align with the Firm’s information security and risks to the organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals.
- Develop alternatives of system designs and/or architecture, which consider trade-offs between security requirements, functional/operational requirements, and cost.
- Identify and define the requirements of the overall security of the network.
- Plan, engineer, and monitor overall security implementation of network systems.
- Support in configuring and implementing network security tools.
- Test and provide solutions for system weaknesses, threats, and security issues.
- Research and identify latest suitable technologies and processes that will improve the overall security of the system.
- Regularly audit the existing network configuration and provide improvement recommendations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 2-4 years of experience in on-premises environments focused on security.
- 2-4 years of experience in security engineering.
- 2-4 years of experience with Metrics, Events, Logging, in an environment similar to Splunk.
- Microsoft Active Directory with Azure experience.
- Ability to perform detection engineering to interrogate computer logs to identity anomalous behavior.
- Develop workflows within a SIEM to automate detections and actions taken.
- Demonstrative knowledge/experience with scripting languages like Python and PowerShell.
- Demonstrative knowledge and expertise with common enterprise-grade security solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
Skills
- CIS best practices
- Penetration testing
- Threat hunting
- Hybrid environment monitoring
- Security technologies
- Program development
- Shell scripting
- Test development
- Infrastructure automation
- Cyber resilience
- System requirements analysis
- Technical solution development
- Cybersecurity engineering
- System architectures
- CIS Controls
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- NIST Cyber Security Framework
- Enterprise architecture
- Information security
- Risk management
- System design
- Network security
- Network systems
- Network security tools
- System weaknesses analysis
- Threat analysis
- Security issue resolution
- Technology research
- Process improvement
- Network configuration auditing
- Splunk
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Azure
- Detection engineering
- Computer log interrogation
- SIEM
- Python
- PowerShell
Location
- Kansas City
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $150,000
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Sick time off
- Referral program
- Medical insurance and benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- ID Theft insurance
- Long-term disability benefits
- Short-term disability benefits
- Parking/Transit reimbursement (varies depending on location)
- 401(k) benefits
- Employee assistance benefits
About the Company
- At Polsinelli, What a Law Firm Should Be is not just our tagline, it is what we live every day.
- The Firm is nationwide but operates in the Central Time Zone.
Equal Opportunity
- Polsinelli PC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
