Cybersecurity Engineer

Company Overview

The Virtuo Group Cybersecurity Services team acts on an organization’s behalf to provide strategy, guidance, threat detection, and monitoring, identification of security weaknesses, and oversight for a comprehensive and resilient security program.  Our Cybersecurity resources are industry-certified and experienced security professionals with extensive expertise and broad knowledge of best-in-class cybersecurity practices.

Virtuo Group offers full-time employees a generous benefits package that includes a competitive salary, paid vacation, holiday, and personal time. In addition, Virtuo Group offers health, dental, 401k, LTD, STD, and other attractive benefits.

Job Description

Virtuo Group Corporation is looking for an experienced Cybersecurity professional to assist with managing security tools, conducting investigations, and incident response, following industry best practices. Our Cybersecurity Team is responsible for protecting both the business and its data while preventing, monitoring, and reacting to cyber threats. In this role, you will be expected to undertake complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge while making well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous IT issues while ensuring complex IT solutions are successfully implemented.

Job Location:  50% Remote / 50% Onsite (East Coast)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyzes known and emerging threats to determine risks against company assets and takes action when and where needed to both proactively protect and respond to threats.
• Collaborates with OT and IT Teams, and others to implement and refine information security strategies that reflect best practices.
• Supports cyber security event investigations.
• Reviews industry guidance for cyber security, identifies gaps in cyber security controls, and recommends/implements technical or administrative solutions to remediate.
• Reviews existing and new services/providers/architectures for compliance with established company standards and policies and recommends methods to correct.
• Regularly interacts with internal and external customers on security-related projects and operational tasks.
• Investigates and utilizes new technologies and processes to enhance security capabilities and implement improvements.
• Develops documentation to support tools, processes, investigations, and incidents.

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 4-6 years of relevant job-related experience with progressively responsible roles in information security including most, if not all, of the following (required):

·     Incident handling and response

·     Experience with the NIST CSF

·     Experience with Anti-malware and EDR solutions

Benefits and Perks

Virtuo Group offers full-time employees a generous benefits package that includes a competitive salary, paid vacation, holiday, and personal time. In addition, Virtuo Group offers health, dental, 401k, LTD, STD, and other attractive benefits.

Benefits and Perks

Virtuo Group offers full-time employees a generous benefits package that includes a competitive salary, paid vacation, holiday, and personal time. In addition, Virtuo Group offers health, dental, 401k, LTD, STD, and other attractive benefits.

·     Advanced oral and written communication skills

·     Advanced interpersonal, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills

·     Ability to technically evaluate security technologies & provide security recommendations

·     Experience with firewalls

·     Familiarity with risk management methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

·     Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

·     Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

·     Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

·     Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

·     Experience with complex, multi-platform environments, including SCADA and ICS

·     Experience with Cisco’s security suite of products

·     Familiarity with ITIL, NIST CSF, NIST SP800-82 & SP800-53