KP Recruiting Group is a consulting firm that provides leadership and exceptional talent to some of the world’s leading companies. Headquartered in the Midwest, KP Recruiting Group has successfully completed countless engagements in the United States, Europe and Latin America. We represent clients in all industries and all sizes. Our mission is to provide exceptional client and candidate experiences in order to get the best possible results. On behalf of our client, we are excited to present the following confidential role. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing the opportunity!

The Role:

The IT Security Engineer will serve as a critical engineer in identifying, assessing, and mitigation of risks, establishing and implementing proactive and reactive remediation plans, and operationally responding and eliminating issues. This engineer will be responsible for engineering directly or facilitating or driving other matrixed security team members in implementing security solutions that possess capabilities in the end2end security value chain categories: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Ensures compliance with all company Policies, Standards, and Operations Specifications or Procedures.

Current operations are in countries such as the US, Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Singapore, Argentina, and the list is growing. The position will also work closely with our joint venture partner with operations in the UK, Netherlands, and Austria.

Job Description

Design engineering, implementation and operational management or oversight as appropriate of security solutions, capabilities, policies and standards

Establishing and maintaining policies, standards, and operational practices as appropriate to manage the confidentiality, integrity and availability of assets and data

Align security strategies with organizational business objectives, technology goals and IT applications.

Serve as the Sr. Technical SME on all information security topics, standards and operating procedures

Core member of IT Security Operations Center; significant focus on managing the external Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)

With an innovative mind-set, employ new and evolving security strategies to mitigate risk around current and anticipated risks and/or events and incidents.

Advance the company's mission to assess, improve and monitor security across the enterprise

Work in collaboration with other functions, at minimum: IT, HR, Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, ERM, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate Security

Ensure cybersecurity risk management is baked in by design to identify, Protect/Prevent, Detect, Respond and Recover phases that remediate or mitigate inherent risks to acceptable levels of residual risk

Provide regular reporting and assessment of cybersecurity programs to senior IT leaders, enterprise risk teams, and key stakeholders

Partner with the business to facilitate cybersecurity risk assessment and risk management processes and empower Leadership to own and accept the level of risk deemed appropriate for their specific risk appetite

Provide Engineering as appropriate for all information security functions including threat intelligence, vulnerability management, tools, etc.

Requirements

Manage tools and capabilities around data protection; prevent data from leaving the organization

Engineer Enterprise Security Metrics Program and drive continuous improvement

Key contributor to defining and implementing LW IT Security’s multi-year roadmap and strategies that provide positive impact on business value

Drive or contribute to IT Security Awareness & Training

Core contributor to the engineering & operationalization of:

Incident Response and TableTop Exercises

eDiscovery

Vulnerability Management to include remediation strategies and patching follow-up

Operating System, Services and Application Hardening according to industry standards

CIS Guidelines and Hardening for PCs

Anti-Virus & EDR End-point Security tools

Safe handling of malware, malicious code review and sandboxing

Write executive reports and technical reports on findings and vulnerability assessments

Follow up with IT teams on security initiatives, configuration improvements and patching

Validation of email for users when phishing is suspected, and remediation of phishing risks and threats as identified

Facilitates Penetration Tests with external providers and either directly remediates PenTest Findings or drives other LW-wide security team members for them to drive remediations

Oversee security of the on prem and cloud infrastructure, serving as the main point of contact for investigating and resolving security-related issues.

Benefits

Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

401k Matching

Family and Individual Insurance Packages (Health, Life, Dental, and Vision)

Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays

Long & Short-Term Disability

Identity Theft Plans

Retirement & Pension Plans

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Referral Program

Tuition Reimbursement Programs

Advancement & Professional Growth opportunities

Parental Leave

& More

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