Engineer Information Security (Memphis, TN)

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Memphis, TN - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 23 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

AtALSACyou do more than make a living; you make a difference.

We like people who are differentbecause were different too. As one of the worlds most iconic and respected nonprofits we know what its like to stand out. Thats why were looking at you. Your background perspective and desire to make an impact set you apart. As we work to help St. Jude cure childhood cancer were calling on the game-changers innovators and visionaries to join our family. Not just for the kids of St. Jude but also for you. Because at ALSAC we develop and celebrate our employees. So bring your whole authentic self and become part of our shared mission: Finding cures. Saving children.

Job Description

The Information Security Engineer is responsible for implementing operating monitoring and continuously improving enterprise security solutions across cloud onprem and hybrid environments. This role focuses on handson engineering and operational ownership ensuring security controls are effective resilient and aligned with architectural standards best practices and regulatory requirements.

As risks evolve the Information Security Engineer proactively recommends and implements enhancements to keep pace with the modern threat landscape.

This role works closely with security leadership architects infrastructure teams application development the Security Operations Center (SOC) audit and business stakeholders. The engineer plays a direct role in securing systems applications thirdparty integrations service providers and businesstobusiness initiatives.

Success in this role is measured by outcomesimproved detection capability reduced risk exposure operational stability and the maturity of security tooling and processes.

Key Responsibilities

Security Engineering & Operations

  • Implement operate monitor and maintain enterprise security platforms including hardware software customer applications managed services and vendor solutions.
  • Own daytoday operational support of security controls ensuring availability performance and minimal business disruption.
  • Research validate and deploy security solutions that meet both business and security requirements.
  • Conduct performance and stress testing to identify limitations while supporting innovation and usability.

Secure Design & Project Delivery

  • Participate in and lead security design discussions ensuring solutions align with architecture standards and securebydesign principles.
  • Contribute to security projects that assess existing infrastructure recommend improvements and deliver enhancements on time within budget and in accordance with SLAs.
  • Develop security test plans from architectural designs identify gaps and implement improvements prior to production impact.
  • Actively participate in change management and change review processes.

Incident Response & Detection

  • Support and participate in incident response activities including investigation containment remediation and postincident reviews.
  • Drive improvements to detections controls and response playbooks based on realworld incident learnings.
  • Influence the planning and execution of incident response exercises and postmortems creating measurable benchmarks to track maturity and progress.
  • Participate in or support offhours response activities as required.

Risk Compliance & Governance

  • Implement technical controls aligned to regulatory and compliance requirements such as HIPAA PCI SOX GLBA and applicable privacy laws.
  • Translate compliance and risk requirements into enforceable scalable security solutions.
  • Partner with audit risk and compliance teams while maintaining a strong engineering and operational focus.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

  • Work closely with architects SOC analysts incident responders infrastructure teams and application developers.
  • Respond to service requests and escalation tickets within SLA expectations.
  • Drive automation and efficiency to reduce manual effort and enable focus on highervalue security initiatives.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

HandsOn Engineering Experience

  • Direct ownership of enterprise security platforms such as SIEM EDR IDS/IPS IAM vulnerability management and related tooling.
  • Proven ability to deploy tune troubleshoot and operate security controls in production environments.
  • Experience supporting real security incidentsnot just alert triage.

Technical Focus Areas

  • Cloud & Hybrid Security: Securing workloads across AWS and/or Azure alongside onprem environments; deep understanding of identity networking logging and monitoring.
  • Incident Detection Engineering: Improving detections alerts and response workflows based on threat intelligence and observed attacker behavior.
  • Security Automation: Using scripting or automation to improve efficiency reliability and scale.
  • Operational Excellence: Strong discipline around SLAs change management and production stability.

Collaboration & Working Style

  • High level of interaction with Infrastructure Development and SOC teams.
  • Strong communicator with the ability to influence without formal authority.
  • Comfortable balancing engineering depth with crossfunctional partnership.

What Makes This Role Exciting

  • Highimpact ownership: Direct influence over how security is implemented and measured across the enterprise.
  • Broad technical exposure: Cloud network endpoint identity application security thirdparty risk and automation.
  • Strategy visibility: Engineers provide feedback that shapes security architecture and longterm program direction.
  • Modern security practices: Emphasis on purple teaming threatdriven improvements automation and continuous control enhancement.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelors degree in computer science information assurance MIS or related field or equivalent.
  • Certification Requirements: CISSP CISM and/or SANS certification a plus.
  • 7 years of experience in cybersecurity including risk and compliance with a strong system and network security engineering background.
  • Highly technical and analytical with proven experience in technology design implementation and delivery (preferred 5 additional years in ITS or infrastructure roles).
  • Experience with purple teaming (red and blue collaboration) to identify validate and remediate security gaps.
  • Handson experience securing cloud environments (IaaS PaaS SaaS) across public private and hybrid models.
  • Extensive knowledge of traditional and modern security technologies including: SIEM IDS/IPS PKI IAM/IDAM antivirus firewalls EDR threat intelligence platforms automation/orchestration application controls deception technologies.
  • Experience supporting vulnerability management penetration testing and remediation efforts.
  • Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate cybersecurity risk in business terms.
  • Track record of integrity accountability curiosity adaptability and effective collaboration.

This position is based on the St. Jude Campus at our National Executive Office in Memphis TN and provides a hybrid work opportunity.

Benefits & Perks

The following Benefits & Perks apply to Full-Time Roles Only.

Were dedicated to ensuring children and their families have every opportunity to enjoy lifes special moments. Were also committed to giving our staff excellent benefits so they can do the same.

  • Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical Dental and Vison Insurance plans)
  • 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
  • Exceptional Paid Time Off
  • Maternity / Paternity Leave
  • Infertility Treatment Program
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Education Assistance
  • Enterprise Learning and Development
  • And more

ALSAC is an equal employment opportunity employer.

ALSAC does not discriminate against any individual with regard to race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity transgender status disability veteran status genetic information or other protected status.

No Search Firms:

ALSAC does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All resumes submitted by search firms to any ALSAC employee or ALSAC representative via email the internet or in any form and/or method without being contacted and approved by our Employee Experience team and without a valid written search agreement in place will result in no fee being paid if a referred candidate is hired by ALSAC.


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AtALSACyou do more than make a living; you make a difference.We like people who are differentbecause were different too. As one of the worlds most iconic and respected nonprofits we know what its like to stand out. Thats why were looking at you. Your background perspective and desire to make an impa...
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