Excellus BCBS · 1 month ago
IT Cloud Engineer Security IV
Albany, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$110K/yr - $198K/yr
4+ years expExcellus BCBS is focused on creating healthier communities and is looking for an IT Cloud Engineer - Security to provide strategic technology solutions for security systems in cloud environments. The role involves collaborating with IT teams to deploy technologies that enhance security management and ensure a resilient infrastructure while maintaining compliance and privacy standards.
Health CareHealth InsuranceNon Profit
Responsibilities
Enforces and integrates security solutions, tools, and appropriate controls to align to security policies, standards, and procedures
Stays current with leading security technologies, standards, and best practices as well as cyber threat landscape and evolving mitigation approaches and techniques
Acts as a high-level escalation tier for operational support in assigned technical areas
Conducts proof-of-concept testing in a lab environment
Creates, updates, and maintains supporting documentation for technology standards
Designs and deploys security solutions to support and ensure alignment with business requirements
Works with technology vendors and technical subject matter expert (SME) to produce corporate standards with regards to assigned technology areas
Collaborates and/or leads engineering solutions, integrating multiple systems and/or technologies
Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies’ mission and values, adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct, and leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs
Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures
Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required
Acts as a primary engineer for assigned technology areas maintaining highly performant and optimized infrastructure environment
Researches technologies and perform analysis that significantly contributes to budget and expenditures for assigned technology areas
Collaborates and participates in the development and execution enterprise strategy in the assigned technology area
Assists in the RFI/RFP process
Research and recommended solution designs. Establishes business justifications for purchases made within assigned technology areas
Significant contributor to automation workflows and focuses on automation for job-related tasks
Performs system analysis and capacity planning of security assets
Assists with mentoring of Level I and II Engineers
Acts as trusted advisor to the management team
Emphasizes technology cost optimization when designing new solutions
Leads business critical projects efforts for IT infrastructure
Leads internal strategic efforts, collaborates, and mentors peers
Qualification
Required
Four (4) years of related experience
Associates degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field In lieu of degree, three (3) years of related work experience required
Intermediate knowledge of security, compliance, and audit policies/procedures
Basic experience with research, design, and implementation in assigned technologies
Basic infrastructure operations and infrastructure project delivery experience essential
Basic scripting and automation experience
Advanced communication skills
Intermediate understanding of cloud computing infrastructure and concepts
Intermediate knowledge of securing cloud and/or on-prem (i.e.: ability to secure disparate systems)
Intermediate ability to engineer and integrate new security designs with an emphasis on solutions that align with overall security strategy
Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of a minimum of two (2) concepts and/or tools listed below: Encryption, PKI, Network and application security, and related firewalls (Palo Alto Networks, Imperva, Azure, AWS, etc.), Identity management (AD, Entra ID, conditional access, MFA, SSO, etc.), Virus detection and end point security (Defender preferred), Vulnerability scanner and pen testing tools (e.g., Rapid 7, Nessus, Nexpose, Metasploit, Appscan, Burp suite, Ida Pro etc.), IDS/IPS and related tools, Comprehensive Cloud security platform (Palo Alto Prisma), Security logging and monitoring (SIEM e.g., ArcSight, Splunk, SolarWinds LEM, Azure Sentinel, AWS Guard Duty, etc.), Common web application security vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP), Application security, Security architecture principals/concepts (i.e., Zero Trust)
Intermediate knowledge of a minimum of three (3) concepts and/or tools listed above
Intermediate Security operations and infrastructure project delivery experience
Demonstrates intermediate technical documentation ability
Intermediate experience with IT computing resource management and optimization
Displays advanced business maturity and demonstrated confidentiality
Intermediate knowledge of Disaster Recovery
Advanced knowledge of a minimum of four (4) concepts and/or tools listed above
Strategic vision in alignment with business objectives
Advanced knowledge of a minimum of five (5) concepts and/or tools listed above
Demonstrated advanced competency in team leadership/technical leadership, facilitation, and project leadership
Advanced understanding of Disaster Recovery procedures related to IT infrastructure
Advanced knowledge of security, compliance, and audit policies/procedures
Advanced scripting and automation experience
Ability to travel across the Health Plan service region for meetings and/or trainings as needed
Ability to work in a home office for continuous periods of time for business continuity
Ability to provide on-call rotation support
Preferred
Bachelor's degree preferred
Intermediate scripting and automation experience preferred
Benefits
Participation in group health and/or dental insurance
Retirement plan
Wellness program
Paid time away from work
Paid holidays
Company
Excellus BCBS
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, a nonprofit independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association, is part of a family of companies that finances and delivers vital health care services to about 1.5 million people across upstate New York.
5001-10000 employees
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