Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Hybrid Work Model – Van Wert, OH; Dublin, OH 

We are a team of employees who are passionate about delivering best-in-class customer service and innovation in the industry. We prioritize integrity, relationships, and excellence in all aspects of our work. 

Our employees can fully utilize their talents and bring their best selves to work. We believe who you are is just as important as what you do! 
 
Security and technology play a crucial role in our ability to deliver best-in-class insurance products. We’re seeking a curious person with a passion for security to join our IT Security & Compliance Team as a Cyber Security Engineer. You would play a pivotal role in identity solutions for our employees, agents, and policyholders. Our mission is to produce a constantly optimized risk identification and mitigation cycle while supporting our critical technology solutions in which identity is a core fundamental component. We do this through threat modeling, strategic prioritization, and data-driven decision-making from security analytics. 

How You’ll Make an Impact 

• Develops and executes security controls, defense, and countermeasures to prevent attacks or attempts to infiltrate company devices.
• Utilizes digital forensics tools to investigate any possible incidents.
• Configures and validates any forensics tools to reduce false positives for intrusion and enable us to detect and respond quicker in case of a compromise
• Provides expert technical advice within IT / Forensics cyber incident table top exercises.
• Performs root cause analysis, conducts threat analysis, and determines an action plan to remediate any risks identified.
• Performs security assessments of end points using penetration and vulnerability testing.
• Provides technical advice to optimize patch resolution workflows.
• Manages and improves processes and tools which provide Identity Management and Access control configurations.
• Manages security processes and tools which oversee authentication and data communication within Central’s infrastructure.
• Conducts penetration testing for exploitable weaknesses within Central infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science and 2 years of related experience
• Or 4 years of related experience 
• Creativity and passion for cyber security
• Curious mind and strong desire to constantly learn.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly explain security risks to any audience.
• Ability to weigh risks, calculate the costs on a course of action, and propose the optimal path toward mitigation.
• Capable of building and maintaining security KPI metrics to prioritize activities.
• Expert knowledge in security best practices within End Point Management.
• Demonstrated skill in utilizing EDR tools.
• Proven expertise of DLP techniques.
• Maximizes the use of computer forensics tools, workflows, and practices.
• Capable of participating within table top exercises at the IT or Corporate level.
• Complete knowledge of Patch Management deployment procedures and creating Patch Compliance KPI metrics.
• Knowledgeable with risk assessment methodology.
• Experience with Nessus Scanning or other vulnerability management tools.
• Proven experience with account management workflows and access control best practices.
• Expert security knowledge related to encryption, network design, firewalls, SIEM, file transfer protocols, and cloud services.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in penetration testing exercises. 
• Ability to understand Central Insurance’s policies and processes