Information Security Engineer

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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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