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Sr. Technical Security Engineer
AOL
Dulles, VA, United States
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Company Description
AOL is a media technology company with a mission to connect consumers and creators through open marketplaces. AOL uses data to disrupt content production, distribution and monetisation. We connect publishers with advertisers across our global, programmatic platforms, tapping into Microsoft inventory and original content brands like TechCrunch, The Huffington Post and MAKERS which reach over 500 million monthly global consumers. Within our mobile advertising network alone, we have a reach of roughly 800 million users. A subsidiary of Verizon, AOL is shaping the digital future.
Job Description
The Senior Technical Security Engineer position is within AOL's IT Security group whose mission is to deliver information security solutions and services to protect AOL information assets, computing infrastructure, applications and data. The Sr. Engineer will work within the compliance and vulnerability management team helping to identify and mitigate risks against AOL.
Responsibilities
The Sr. Engineer will perform technical security engineering activities including the following:
Perform vulnerability scans, analysis, validation and remediation activities
Perform network and application penetration testing
Classify and prioritize the risk of new vulnerabilities according to the specifics of AOL environment's risk level, mitigating factors, and assessment of the impacts of internal and external threats
Engineer application, system and network security solutions to meet security requirements for varied operating environments
Research and assess new threats, vulnerability security trends and security alerts, recommend remedial action
Work with customers to oversee remediation of identified security issues
Perform technical and non-technical compliance activities
Provide security subject matter expertise to AOL product teams including developers and system administrators
Perform security validation for configuration settings on different systems
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of information security work experience
A strong interest in the field of information security
Strong Understanding of common network vulnerabilities, OS vulnerabilities (Linux, Windows and OSX), patching and attack patterns
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Solid organizational skills and strong customer service skills
Fluent in a variety of web application protocols, operating systems and networking technologies.
Experience in system administration, software engineering, or related technologies.
Experience with parsing / analysis of large data sets (e.g. vulnerability scan results).
Strong analytical skills
Desired
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Expertise with OWASP/NIST security concepts and common application security risks, such as XSS, XSRF, SQL Injection, Cookie Manipulation among others.
Familiarity with Enterprise Vulnerability Management tools such as Rapid 7 Nexpose, Nessus and Qualys.
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services security
Additional Information
AOL offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and performance bonus. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected category.