Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Job Details

Job Location:

Answers in Genesis HQ - Erlanger, KY 41018

Position Type:
Full Time Job Category:
Technology

Answers in Genesis is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to operate, administer, and continuously improve the ministry’s cybersecurity environment. This senior technical role protects endpoints, identities, networks, cloud services, applications, email, and security platforms through monitoring, secure configuration, vulnerability management, incident response, and ongoing control improvement. The position exercises independent technical judgment within assigned responsibilities, collaborates closely with IT and business stakeholders, and promptly communicates significant incidents, risks, findings, and recommended actions to management.

This position will allow one to impact others through a service mindset centered on making an eternal difference. This position should display our Core Values of SERVE (Serve, Equip, Relate, Value, Engage) when interfacing with both internal and external customers to ensure that the message and mission of Answers in Genesis is portrayed in an effective and God-honoring fashion. This position provides opportunities for spiritual, personal, and professional development.

• Promote the mission and standards of Answers in Genesis.
• Create a SERVE culture environment in all work done.
• Approach all tasks with a second mile mindset.
• Prioritize personal integrity in all interactions and assignments.
• And all other duties and responsibilities assigned by management.

• Monitor security events, systems logs, alerts, threat activity, and intelligence across the enterprise; maintain accurate tickets, investigation records, and support documentation.
• Investigate, contain, eradicate, and remediate cybersecurity incidents, including malware, ransomware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, ARP spoofing, unauthorized access, compromised credentials, and other threats.
• Use MITRE ATTACK and related threat intelligence to understand attacker tactics, techniques, and produce, evaluate defensive coverage, and support post-incident corrective actions.
• Take timely operational action to protect ministry systems within assigned responsibilities and escape significant incidents, risks, exceptions, or business-impacting changes to management.

• Operate vulnerability scanning and assessment techniques; validate and prioritize findings based on severity, exploitability, system criticality, and organizational risk.
• Coordinate remediation with Infrastructure, Software Development, Helpdesk, application owners, and other responsible teams; track findings through remediation, mitigation, exception, or formal risk acceptance and verify completed fixes.
• Administer endpoint security, EDR/MDR, application/elevation/network control technologies such as Threat Locker, and Mobile Device Management policies; monitor endpoint health, protection status, configuration, and compliance.
• Investigate endpoint incidents and perform or coordinate malicious-software removal across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.
• Administer security controls in Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ; review privileged access, authentication controls, account activity, and identity-related alerts; identify and remediate excessive, dormant, inappropriate, or potentially compromised access.

• Administer Fortinet firewalls and related network-security technologies, including firewall rules, FortiNAC, secure remote access, intrusion detection/prevention, traffic monitoring, and at-risk device controls.
• Investigate suspicious network activity, troubleshoot network-security issues, and recommend improvements to network controls and configurations.
• Monitor and maintain security configurations in Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and other approved cloud platforms, including logging, identity activity, remote access, connectivity, cloud firewalls, and configuration changes.
• Identify cloud misconfigurations, support secure cloud projects and change, and coordinate remediation…