Senior Security Operations Specialist
As a Senior Security Operations Specialist, you'll be pivotal in ensuring our client's technology ecosystem and foundational infrastructure are engineered with robust, "defense-in-depth" security principles and leading industry practices.
This is a dedicated on-site position located in Spartanburg, SC.
Core Responsibilities
- Architect, document, and deploy comprehensive layered security frameworks and associated processes for critical operational areas, including:
- Network and endpoint defense
- Application and data protection
- Proactive security monitoring and alerting systems
- Identity and access governance
- Verify that all security devices, firewalls, systems, databases, and applications are generating appropriate logs and that monitoring tools are configured for effective alerting.
- Conduct ongoing research into emerging cyber threats and develop innovative techniques for their early detection and mitigation.
- Apply extensive expertise in IT security principles, methodologies, and technologies to design, install, and configure advanced security solutions.
- Create, refine, and maintain high-quality security solution documentation.
- Develop sophisticated threat models utilizing frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and devise effective mitigation strategies.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
- Collaborate closely with our client's Quality Systems and Infrastructure Management teams to uphold rigorous quality management standards.
- Partner with Development and Business Intelligence teams to embed layered security into new product and service offerings.
- Ensure all client systems and processes adhere strictly to established security requirements for network, endpoint, application, and access control methodologies.
- Lead the documentation and implementation of a robust cloud security posture, encompassing:
- Security planning requirements for service infrastructure and platforms.
- Integration of security monitoring with our client's core Infrastructure Support System.
- Monitoring and advising on critical security patching requirements.
- Overall accountability and sign-off on the security readiness for all SaaS, Business Systems, Operational Support Systems, and Client Services Systems.
- Additional Duties:
- Engage effectively and communicate regularly with Development, Infrastructure, DevOps, and business unit stakeholders in cross-functional teams to report on security operations status.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- Possession of one or more advanced professional security certifications relevant to the field (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CEH).
- Demonstrated deep understanding of Information Security best practices.
- Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience implementing layered security for network, host, application, data, and access controls within IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments across hybrid deployments.
- Profound experience in developing and deploying specialized security solutions, including the automation of repeatable security tasks and controls.
- Strong practical knowledge of web authentication and authorization standards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven collaboration and teamwork abilities.
- Experience in implementing and operating security technologies and processes within hybrid cloud environments (e.g., AWS or Azure), as well as on-premise infrastructure.
- Minimum of 2+ years of cloud-based security runtime management experience.
- Familiarity with software-defined network, compute, and storage platforms.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, load balancing, and software-defined Layer 2/3 rule configurations.
- Extensive experience with security vulnerability and penetration testing tools such as Tenable, Qualys, ProofPoint, and Pentera.
- Practical implementation and management experience with hardware and software firewalls, antivirus solutions, and IDS/IPS platforms.
