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About This Role
- The Cyber Defense organization is seeking an Information Security Engineer to support comprehensive offensive and defensive security operations across multiple enterprise environments.
- You will join a highly collaborative Agile DevOps delivery team of information security professionals responsible for proactively identifying/remediating vulnerabilities, conducting threat assessments, and implementing robust security measures to protect Intel's critical assets, systems, and applications.
- The Cyber Defense team manages security controls spanning vulnerability scanning, security patching, penetration testing, application security, cloud security, and lab security across all Intel domains.
- Our offensive security operations include thorough security assessments of enterprise-connected assets including physical hosts, network devices, applications, virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, and social engineering vectors.
- This role requires a passion for quality, security, automation, and the skills to understand complex systems with a desire for continual improvement and innovation.
- You will join a DevOps team of Information Security professionals responsible for developing, configuring, and operating security controls.
- This includes security controls validation, discovery, offensive security, attack detection and containment, vulnerability detection and remediation, development of AI models and agentic systems that respond to AI generated attack paths.
- As an Information Security Engineer your responsibilities will be, but not limited to: Configuration, management, and operations of core platforms within the Cyber Defense organization (e.g. vulnerability/application scanning, security patching, asset discovery/identification, exposure management, etc.).
- Perform external attack surface management responsibilities such as, attack path analysis, exposure exploitability analysis, and tactical remediation and containment of high-risk exposures Verify efficacy of security controls implemented on a variety of Intel enterprise systems, infrastructure, and applications.
- Recommend remediation actions to discovered security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
- Evaluate threat intelligence and determine potential risk to Intel.
- Understand and emulate adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures in assessing the security posture of a wide range of systems.
- Work closely with software development engineers, system engineers, and other information security teams in supporting information security projects and initiatives.
- Develop and support security solutions that integrate and interface with customers/business units.
- Produce quality reporting documentation, tailoring the relative detail of the content to the audience.
- Be a team player within the functional team, and across other Intel teams and stakeholders.
- Support vulnerability assessments of AI systems by running scans, documenting findings, and helping track remediation of identified issues in models and datasets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand AI workflows and identify potential security gaps.
- Help develop defensive and / or offensive AI agents / to respond to or emulate AI assisted attackers.
- Support and work in an Agile and DevOps team focused on security operations, analytics, and solution development.
- The ideal candidate should show the following behavioral traits: Strong communication and coordination skills across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated results leveraging perseverance, patience, persistence, problem-solving, vulnerability hunting, and the willingness to work well with ambiguity.
- A collaborative team player with a good attitude, trustworthy, knows when to push and when to stop, and understands the potential downstream impacts of technical actions.
Requirements
- are required to be initially considered for this position Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or any other science/engineering related field. 5+ years of experience supporting Information Security operations, vulnerability management, and/or service delivery.
- Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
- Experience in Offensive Security and Vulnerability Management including Vulnerability Assessment, Identification, and Remediation.
- Server/system architectures, operating systems, system patching, system and security configuration, auditing, and automation.
- Windows and Linux administration (i.e., installation, configuration, and troubleshooting).
- Experience in adversary emulation, network penetration testing, web application penetration testing, and cloud penetration testing (e.g.
- Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Practical experience with Windows, PowerShell, Active Directory, EntraID (Azure Active Directory), Linux OS (various flavors), networking, scripting/coding (Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, BASH, Go, etc.), cloud security, and DevOps/CICD/container/K8s.
- Developing scripting and automation solutions to support system configuration, performance, and troubleshooting.
- AI/LLM and AI Agents knowledge and experience.
- Implementing and supporting cloud-based solutions / Network protocols (TCP/IP) as well as protocols associated with common device communications / Information Security best practices and technologies.
- Experience working in an Agile environment and with Scrum practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with a breadth of technical skills, and an eagerness to Information security certifications through industry recognized organizations such as: SANS, ISACA (CISM), ISC2 (CISSP), CompTIA (Security+), MCSE, AWS, CCNA, ITIL).
- Offensive security certifications (e.g.
- CEH, OSCP, CRTO) and other pen-testing certifications.
Benefits
- We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry.
- It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.
- Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel .
- Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $89,340.00-175,210.00 USD The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
- Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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