Lead Security Engineer

Lead Security Engineer

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.

We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

In this role, you'll communicate and reinforce security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences within the CoStar Enterprise. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing, using and updating standard security software in the areas of vulnerability scanning/management, leading remediation efforts, end-node security, security tool integration and orchestration for incident response.

As the security section grows, so will the tools and the Lead Security Engineer will be the person charged with implementing them. The successful candidate will be a self-starter motivated to learn new technologies and tools and assist in moving security forward as it is implemented within the CoStar Enterprise.

This position can be located in Arlington or Richmond, VA and is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.

• Incident handling – serve as the incident response coordinator to oversee all incident response activities and ensure timely and successful resolution of incidents across various business verticals
• Develop, mature and lead incident response functions and reporting of findings
• Lead technical security assessments (network, application, database) for existing and newly acquired businesses or services and collaborate with other teams to adjust security configurations and architecture
• Facilitate quarterly incident response tabletop exercises and updating of the Incident Response Plan
• Team expert on Mitre Att&ck, tools, techniques, and practices of cyber attackers which you use to drive the overall strategy of the incident response team.
• Ability to define and develop platform automations to increase efficiency in responding to observed threats.
• Familiarity and comfort with at least one scripting language and basic understanding of CI/CD practices.
• Coordinate, performance and derive work from the security review and monitoring of the production environment setup permissions of users, open ports/services and overall network setup
• Ability to examine network, server, and application logs with forensic depth to determine trends and identify security incidents, and train and mentor others to deepen their skills
• Use security tools to audit infrastructure, detect issues and coordinate remediation of any issues
• Develop and mature threat hunting practices in the CoStar enterprise
• Collaborate with other teams to remediate discovered deficiencies, and develop and improve network and endpoint security configuration procedures
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• One or more security certification such as SANS/GIAC, CISSP, CISM, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Certified Expert Incident Handler (CEIH) or equivalent
• 10+ years in Information Security
• Scripting/programming skills (Perl, Python, Power Shell)
• Experience with Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 and Active Directory

• Excellent oral and written communication skills to work…