Senior ICS Engineer

Security Network Engineer

The Security Network Engineer will ensure the security of the organization's information assets, designs, configuration baselines, and systems through a structured, proactive approach that balances risk with business requirements. He or she will plan, engineer, configure, implement, and troubleshoot security and Industrial Control Systems infrastructure necessary to maintain, an array of secure global data centers and ICS infrastructure. Provide subject matter expertise for a variety of technology projects with an emphasis on ICS security.

Partner with internal and external business partners as necessary to provide security assurance against cyber-attacks, to include PLC breach, exploits, unauthorized access, etc.; data loss, to include inappropriate and/or unauthorized disclosure of Company and/or Customer information; and other cyber activities that could negatively impact Equinix and its customers. Implement new technologies, policies, and procedures for optimal business network operations. Provide operational support for security and OT/IT infrastructure.

Proactively identify security vulnerabilities and mitigation opportunities within the security and OT/IT infrastructure. Demonstrate an aptitude for maintaining strong security market awareness as well as to recommend, implement, and manage cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Identify changes needed in data center infrastructure design and configurations necessary to achieve the technology organization goals.
• Actively participate in data center infrastructure strategy reviews and design sessions by performing applicable network, system, application, database, and security analysis.
• Analyzes network & IT/OT system response and determines tuning recommendations to improve performance, adhere to capacity management expectations, and provide performance management reporting.
• Manage effective issue identification and resolution processes;
  Serve as a senior escalation point for all data center network and IT/OT security operations issues with a degree of quality that results in absolute root-cause determination and drive vendor partners to provide quality assurances by requiring immediate bug fixes, software updates, etc.
• Perform advanced tier 3 support, to include but not limited to: troubleshooting, off-hour maintenance activities, problem resolution, and on-call rotation while ensuring all activities will adhere to the services change management policy.
• Perform capacity planning of all systems and environments; ensure that upgrades are completed on a standardized basis.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to IT/OT systems, design, configuration, support and processes.
• Create and maintain playbooks and remediation plans ensuring that these are tested and updated regularly.
• Conduct high-level and low-level designs for data center security and ICS infrastructure projects and manage data center infrastructure changes.
• Interact with partner organizations/departments to design network or system solutions for our data center infrastructure Design and develop solutions and ICS requirements based on business unit needs; make recommendations on investments in network hardware and services.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend future strategy to Management. Interact with business partners to develop a strategy to implement ICS security. Experience in architecture and design of global ICS security data center solutions.
• Follow industry standards, regulatory requirements and the potential impacts to policies / controls, standards, procedures and assist in audit situations, regional compliance and steering committees.

Requirements:

• A recognized university degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.
• Have at least 5 complete years of relevant working experience with implementation / deployment / securing ICS/OT/IT systems.
• Strong experience in the field of cyber security in industrial control systems, operational technology and information technology.
• Well-rounded knowledge of system and network security techniques and standards, NIST CSF, 800-53, 800-82.
• Knowledge in penetration testing, networks and operating systems would be an added advantage.
• Demonstrates understanding of project management processes, including the planning of action items and resources, including RFI/RFP.
• Able to communicate developed technology solutions, expresses the importance of an effective implementation and develops implementation plans.
• Experience and knowledge of traditional security controls and technologies, such as:
  Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems Intrusion Detection/Prevention systems (IDS/IPS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Identity and Access Management (IDAM) systems Antivirus software and Firewalls Privilege/vulnerability and threat management.
• In addition to newer offerings such as:
  Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Information Protection Cloud Security (AWS/Azure)…