Security Engineer

Sperry Rail is on a mission-critical journey to revolutionize the Rail Flaw Detection industry. Through the continuous development of cutting-edge diagnostic technologies and AI-assisted analysis, we are transforming railway safety worldwide. Our global engineering teams work collaboratively to develop step-change technologies that define Sperry as the unparalleled market leader.

For nearly a century, we have repeatedly modernized and improved rail diagnostics through our relentless pursuit of improvement. Determined is an understatement. We are obsessed with advancing science and raising the bar on what’s possible with our ever-improving suite of products and service offerings.

Emboldened through the shared values of honesty, accountability, passion, integrity, and teamwork, we are driven by the challenge and bridging concepts with fruition. Each technologist entering Sperry imprints themselves into our brand and further galvanizes a culture of innovation and advancement. Allow us to be clear, Thought Leaders are welcome!

We are agile and hungry and invite those with similar passions to join us in challenging the status quo and bringing new ideas to the market. Fast-paced, high-touch with a distinct sense of purpose. We offer more than a job; we offer an opportunity to be part of something different.

Security at Sperry is run today by our Global IT team, alongside everything else that team carries. The tooling is in place and the practice around it is real. What it has not had is someone whose primary job it is, and that is the seat we are hiring. You will work across our security stack day to day: endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, and the identity and access configuration across Microsoft 365 and Entra  will also help mature the practice around those tools, including the runbooks, the asset inventory, the incident handling, and the measures that tell us whether any of it is working.

This is a hybrid role by design, and worth being straightforward about. We run a lean Global IT team where everyone wears several hats. You will be our specialized hand on security, and you will also work side by side with the team on general infrastructure and endpoint administration. That breadth is part of the appeal: you will see the whole environment rather than one slice of it, and you will keep building your cloud and infrastructure skills while you are here.

We are hiring experience deliberately. This seat carries real responsibility for the security posture of a company that inspects track for most of the major railroads in North America, and what we are looking for is someone who arrives with a view of how this should be done and is willing to challenge how we do it today.

We expect an exceptional level of drive and ambition. You think beyond today's work to what the team and organization need next, champion bold ideas, and see them through. Your hunger is infectious - it inspires those around you to aim higher. We are looking for someone with a genuine no-task-is-too-small attitude. On a small team, the person who investigates the alert is often the person who images the laptop, and we need someone equally willing to do both.

This role requires a high degree of self-direction. You will manage complex work with minimal oversight, identify problems and solutions proactively, and may lead work streams. You make well-reasoned technical decisions and escalates when there is genuine business impact. You should be able to question, challenge, and improve existing practice. You will find things here that were set up for a smaller and simpler company, and part of your value is saying so and then fixing them in a sensible order.

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