Sr. Security Engineer – Security Architecture & Engineering

Job Summary:

At Disney, we?re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt?s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world?a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences ? and we?re constantly looking for new ways to enhance and protect these exciting experiences.

The Global Information Security (GIS) group provides services and solutions to protect the value and use of Disney?s information through risk evaluation, collaboration, standardization, enforcement, and education across the enterprise. We protect the brand and reputation while enabling and supporting business objectives. GIS teams are located in Seattle, Burbank, and Orlando.

The Sr. Security Specialist, Security Architecture and Engineering is responsible for evaluating a myriad of deployment scenarios (e.g. on-prem, cloud, hybrid), services, models and technology to ensure they are secure and compliant across the Walt Disney Company (TWDC). This role is highly versatile and technical, gleaning from heavy network engineering, application security and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities:

• Provides situation based support, using in-depth knowledge of TWDC technology, to ensure systems are designed in accordance with and are aligned with Company information security policies and standards
• Creates, reviews and presents reports, position papers, assessment recaps to team (peers) and next level of leadership within team
• Executes advanced risk and threat analysis activities, leveraging learnings from external and internal cyber trends and incidents
• Develops and documents technical solutions that meet specifications and impact future developments (position papers, process flows, requirements, data flows, mapping to controls)
• Identifies, selects, develops and documents architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, policies, reusable designs, best practices) across data protection topics
• Researches, learns and assesses new technologies
• Leads discussions, assessments, tracking and overall reporting of technology security risks
• Documents issues, solutions and project status
• Understands business drivers and processes to evaluate risk and recommend solutions with a balanced result
• Promotes awareness of applicable security policies and standards
• Assists with the maintenance of metrics and scorecards in support of the information security program

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 year?s experience with 3 or more areas including: public cloud, secure application development, virtual network big data, elastic compute, cloud security
• 1-3 years of practical cloud information security experience
• 5-8 years in IT and/or in this specific role
• Experience in information management and information technology security design and implementation
• Knowledge of configuration management, change control/problem management integration, risk assessment and acceptance, exception management and security baselines (e.g. COBIT, CIS Baselines, NIST, vendor security technical implementation guides, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience with security event logs from Windows, Unix, intrusion detection systems, network, and remote access solutions
• Experience managing IDS / IPS / firewall systems in distributed/hybrid cloud environment
• Demonstrated experience in creating conceptual, logical and physical security diagrams, Thorough understanding of vulnerabilities and countermeasures.
• Information Security technology/compliance experience.
• Detailed understanding of TCP/IP and related communication protocols, Windows authentication mechanisms (Kerberos, NTLM, AD), networking technologies, software defined computing, containerization, routing and switching, big data, elastic compute, and risk analysis and risk management methodologies
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, results driven environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including reporting
• This will require practical use and understanding of advanced security protocols and standards, and solid knowledge of information security principles and practices as well as latest scalable technologies (hard and soft)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years in IT with 4-6 years in an information security role
• Extensive knowledge of information security principles and functions
• Extensive knowledge and experience with diverse IT architectures and enterprise IT data centers, external hosted services and cloud computing environments. Knowledge and experience with physical and virtual server configurations and implementations.

Required Education

• BA/BS in business or computer science or appropriate work experience
• Two or more senior Information Security and cloud certifications: CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Public Cloud Architect, MCSE cloud, VMWare VCP6 cloud, EMCCA cloud computing Architect or GIAC)

Preferred Education

• Masters or other advanced degree preferred