Security Engineer II

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Why Join Us?

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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to team:

Are you passionate about cloud and the technology needed to drive security? Do you love engineering of critical security systems and services; including Endpoint detection and Response, Intrusion Detection, Data Leakage Prevention, Web Content Filtering, Firewall Compliance, Vulnerability and Security Event Management?
Expedia Group Security Solutions Engineering team is searching for a top-notch Security Engineer who will deliver on key initiatives, starting from the idea phase all the way through requirements definition, analysis, technical specifications, engineering & deployment. This is a highly visible role that requires an understanding of our large, complex technical environment and has the ability to design/engineer simple, elegant technical security solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Endpoint detection and response - EDR Anti-malware Agents, Advanced threat protection, Data Loss Prevention
• Web Content Filtering - Seamless Internet protection, On premise and cloud based web proxies
• Vulnerability Management - DC and cloud asset vulnerability patching and compliance
• Threat Intelligence - Intelligence feeds from sources like Recorded Future
• Threat detection - User Behavior Analysis and investigation
• SIEM & SOAR solutions and integrations
• Container security and discovery
• Network security - Web Application Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, network based spyware, Anti-malware detection and blocking, AWS Guard Duty
• Security audit and Orchestration tools
• Proactively maintain, monitor and improve our systems and security posture with a focus on service excellence
• Write and contribute to project plans, author engineering level documentation, and develop detailed test plans.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to solve complex problems
• Influence the engineering practices within and beyond the Affinity team

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in a Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 3+ years of experience in security engineering and operations support of a mission critical environment
• Hands on experience with AWS Cloud services like EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudFormation and Lambda; relevant experience with AWS cloud security is highly preferred
• Hands On / administration experience of Web Content Filtering(WCF), Web Application Firewalls(WAF), Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS), Vulnerability Management(VM) & Patching, Password Management, Data Loss Prevention(DLP), Endpoint Detection & Response(EDR), SIEM, Resilient SOAR etc.
• Knowledge and understanding of systems and/or network design principles and thorough understanding of security principles and technical architectures.
• Ability to correlate and analyze log information, packet captures, security alerts, and artifacts.
• Preferred if you have applied computer programming and/or scripting language experience (Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, C++ etc.)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, interacting with security stakeholders, gathering requirements, implementing security solutions etc.
• Innovation driven mindset, reducing technical debt by optimizing security solutions, and automating day to day tasks.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative and fast paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Accommodation requests

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