Application Security Engineer

Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

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Job Summary:

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

We are currently seeking a highly skilled vulnerability engineer to join our Vulnerability Management program. They will drive resolution of all identified IT vulnerabilities in a global enterprise to ensure the smooth and efficient ongoing operation of the UMG Global infrastructure. A high level of diverse technical skills for troubleshooting and problem analysis is required, along with the ability to clearly communicate the results of problem analysis to business stakeholders, IT support teams, and network providers to resolve operational issues quickly and effectively.

This position requires established and proven experience in a global environment. In addition to having strong technical skills, you must be comfortable in effectively communicating with business end users, technical IT teams, business partners, network providers, and business process outsourced vendors, all while being sensitive to a wide diversity of cultural and technical backgrounds in a global business environment.

Job Functions:

• Demonstrate ability to anticipate security issues, identify emerging risks, and take initiative in vulnerability remediation without constant supervision. A track record of proactively addressing vulnerabilities and improving security processes is essential.

• Prioritize and classify vulnerabilities based on risk impact, system criticality, and business context.

• Drive resolution of identified vulnerabilities within 60 days of identification.

• Administer and maintain the Veritas eDiscovery platform, ensuring its availability, security and proper configuration.

• Administer and maintain Cortex XDR for endpoint detection and response.

• Ensure compliance with data retention policies and assist legal and compliance teams with data retrieval and analysis requests.

• Work with internal customers, teammates and 3rd party providers to ensure operational security of the cloud and server infrastructure.

• Maintain high quality process and procedure documentation.

• Maintain & enhance knowledge of key technologies and risks.

• Communicate risk and remediation requirements clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership and external auditors.

• Automate the vulnerability reporting and remediation processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

• Participate in incident response activities related to vulnerability exploitation and provide remediation guidance.

• Participate in on-call rotation to…