The Opportunity
The ideal candidate will be passionate about cybersecurity, security monitoring and analysis, and developing/automating creative solutions.
Information Technology at Nutanix
As a Security Engineer, you will be expected to be skilled at identifying security issues within infrastructure and processes, conduct research and root cause analysis, effectively execute projects/initiatives to address them, demonstrate excellent judgment, and act as a security liaison supporting business units.
Your Role
- Response and analysis of security issues created by automated systems and people
- Leverage tools to conduct research
- Provide evidence backed root cause analysis
- Troubleshoot technical issues within complex systems
- Proactively identify gaps, risks and issues and suggest possible solutions
- Operate our key security tools and constantly tune and build response playbooks
- Design automated workflows to streamline security operations
- Technical contribution to complex incidents
- Act as a consultant on special projects for multiple teams
- Provide coaching and guidance to more junior staff
What You Will Bring
- Able to take ownership of tasks and see through completion in a timely manner
- Initiate fact based research on security issues
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
- Willingness to learn, absorb and correlate technical information and then be able to interpret and simplify it
- Strong communication skills to work with both collaborative cross-functional team of peers and departments within the company
- Well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with a can-do attitude
- Understanding of various security technologies including endpoint security, network security, collaboration security, cloud security, SIEM, etc.
- Understanding of OS and application logging, with a focus on security event logging
- Understanding of fundamental security concepts
- Understanding of a security incident response framework
- Practical knowledge of basic networking protocols (TCP/IP stack)
- Experience with Microsoft Windows or Linux or MacOS Operating Systems on a command line level
- Experience with one or more programming or scripting language and code repository tools such as Python, VBScript, Perl, TCL, github/gitlab, etc or others
About the Team
About Your Manager:
- Your manager for this role will be the Manager, SecOps Engineering. They have 24 years of security experience in Australia, the UK, and Netherlands.
What The Team Says:
- Your manager has managed global teams in APJ, EMEA, and the Americas, bringing a wealth of diverse experience to the team.
How We Work:
- At Nutanix, we work remotely in a 24x7 follow-the-sun model. You'll be expected to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week during office hours, which could fall between Monday to Sunday. We offer flexible scheduling to accommodate different work preferences.
