Senior Security Engineer

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Title:

Senior Security Engineer Duration: 3-6 Months (with a possibility of Contract to Hire)

Location:

Springfield, IL This is an onsite (Springfield, IL) role.

Working Hours:

37.5 hours per week, with 7.5 hours per day. Only W2 candidates are eligible for this position. Third-party or C2C candidates will not be considered.

Description:

Under general direction of the Data Systems Manager, performs complex professional and advisory functions, performing security administration and exercising substantial creativity and originality to reach the final objective. Researches, plans, installs, implements, configures, documents, maintains, communicates, coordinates in relationship to hardware, software, and operating systems of specified platforms. Develops complex and sophisticated integrations between systems and applications. Serves as designated lead worker.

Maintains security focused solutions, both stand-alone and Software as a service (SaaS) within the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State by providing installation, configuration, training, diagnostic and administrative support for the effective utilization of these solutions. Provides setup, configuration and maintenance of both on-premises and cloud based security solutions. Responsibilities:
Designs, implements, and maintains security controls for cloud environments, including infrastructure, storage, networking, identity services, and platform services. Supports the secure configuration and administration of cloud platforms. Partners with infrastructure and application teams to embed security requirements into cloud architecture deployment pipelines, and operational processes. Configures and monitors security solutions to detect and respond to cloud security alerts, suspicious activity, indicators of attack and indicators of misconfiguration.

Conducts security assessment, technical reviews, and risk analysis for cloud services, architectures, and proposed changes. Leads the alignment of configuration management practices with applicable NIST frameworks and publications. Reviews system configurations to identify deviations from approved baselines, security standards, and organizational requirements. Monitors configuration changes to ensure they are properly requested, reviewed, approved, documented, tested, and implemented. Works with system owners, administrators, and security personnel to remediate non-compliant or unauthorized configurations.

Establishes, maintains, and improves secure configuration standards for the agency's information systems, endpoints, servers, network devices, cloud resources, and security tools. Ensures systems are configured in accordance with approved security baselines, policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices. Collaborates with IT teams to strengthen the agency's security posture through effective configuration governance and technical control validation. Administers, monitors, and maintains the agency email security systems and controls.

Coordinates with IT teams, security, and clients to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant email operations.

Experience:

Minimum…