Security Engineer
Sprout Social
Contract Chicago , Illinois, United States Posted 5 years ago
About Position
Security Engineer (Contract)
$85.00 / Hourly
Chicago , Illinois, United States
Security Engineer
Contract Chicago , Illinois, United States Posted 5 years ago
Description
Within 1 month, you will Complete Sprouts New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members.Be introduced to Sprouts security stakeholders across the organization.Learn our existing tooling and begin monitoring the status of our environments.Collaborate regularly with members of our infrastructure and development teams and get up to speed on our current and future initiatives.Begin to decompose larger security projects into small, more manageable deliverables.Get regular team feedback on your approach to managing and engaging our existing risks and security capabilities.Within 3 months, you will Work with your manager and teammates to create and prioritize quarterly team goals.Begin to take ownership of our bug bounty program and improve our engagement with the larger security community.Review, refine and assign alerts triggered from our IDS and other monitoring platforms.Participate in our SOC2 gap analysis and overall compliance efforts.Build connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building.Within 6 months, you will Coordinate and work with external vendors to conduct regular applicationlevel and infrastructurelevel penetration tests.Identify security gaps within our systems, present plans to mitigate risks, and work with teams get them prioritized within their workstreams.Generate and improve upon internal and external security policies and standards.Drive internal security awareness training and phishing tests.Regularly report on overall security health and recommendations to our technical leadership team.Partner with the Infrastructure team to continuously improve our ability to deliver reliable and secure services.Within 12 months, you will Be a goto expert and security representative within Sprout.Help define and build the security roadmap for future work.Work and effectively communicate with other groups across the organization to ensure bigpicture alignment and encourage crossteam collaboration with our GRC framework.Own crossorganizational projects, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership.Have opportunities to contribute to inhouse technical presentations, employee onboarding, and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout employees.Have opportunities to advocate for Sprout in the larger security community by participating/speaking at conferences, user groups, etc.Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout Security in beneficial ways that we havent even considered yet.
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