Cybersecurity Engineer - Cloud

Overview

Opportunity to work in a hybrid model: Potential to work 4 days onsite and 1 day remote

Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

Responsibilities

About the role:

The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for developing, deploying, monitoring, tuning, evaluating, reporting, and maintaining systems and procedures; and to identify and mitigate threats to the corporate network, corporate assets and corporate users. This team member will identify core requirements, design and implement security technologies and work with stakeholders to perform ongoing tuning and alerting on those technologies. Security technologies may include but are not limited to: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Security Incident Event Management (SIEM), User Behavior Analytics, Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) and Web/Email Gateway. This team member will be responsible for both technical implementation of systems and communication of security requirements to management and security leadership. Additionally, this team member will be responsible, as necessary, with assisting in investigations into security threats.

JOB DUTIES

• Prepares technical requirements and standards
• Assists in the identification, engineering and designing of security technologies including, but not limited to: Security Incident and Event Managers (SIEM) and threat intelligence solutions, Web filtering (proxy, network AV), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Endpoint security solutions, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Vulnerability Management (VM), Threat Intelligence and Threat Detection, Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Email Gateways, Breach Mitigation, Certificate Management, SSL encryption and decryption, Identity Management, Cloud Security, Database Security, Web Gateways, VPNs and Firewalls
• Performs analysis of system logs to identify unauthorized use or access
• Creates, analyzes and communicates security metrics to leadership
• Participates in emergency response team activities for responding to various security incidents
• Provides in-depth support for information security incidents including internal violations, hacker attacks, virus and system outages
• Prepares and updates information procedures, standards and/or other technical requirement documents
• Participates in periodic information systems risk assessments
• Develops detailed proposals and plans for new information security systems that would enhance or enable new capabilities for network or host systems
• Recommends and evaluates security tools to identify more efficient and effective security measures

Qualifications

What makes you a dream candidate?

• Local and wide area networking concepts, principles and protocols
• Advanced knowledge in Infrastructure design and management
• Working knowledge of management processes such as personnel administration, planning and budgeting
• Strong working knowledge of Intel platforms, iSeries and pSeries servers
• Advanced understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices and processes
• Experience with UML Design Tools
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI model and subnetting
• High level understanding of technology infrastructure, security concepts and platforms
• Demonstrated success in project management
• Advanced knowledge of IBM pSeries hardware, operating systems and TSM backup infrastructure
• Advanced knowledge of the OSI model and security that is associated with each layer
• Understanding of routing and switching protocols as they relate to load balancing
• Strong understanding of application layer protocols including HTTP, SSH, SSL and DNS
• Knowledge of the latest security and privacy legislation, regulations, advisories, alerts and vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of IT security processes and controls as well as IT infrastructure and networking technical knowledge
• Proven expertise developing custom rule sets for tools to identify specific attacks and exploits based on feedback and requirements from business stakeholders including Compliance and Legal Counsel
• Possess understanding of cloud technologies and concepts
• Experience securing cloud deployments on common platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with deploying environments by defining infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Experience with securing container deployments, Kubernetes, managed Kubernetes PaaS services, Agile environments, and DevOps environments
• Experience with managing infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and microservice architecture
• Background in scripting and automation in widely used languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, etc
• Detailed knowledge of declarative IaC approaches and immutable infrastructure is a plus
• Familiarity with Terraform is a plus

Additional Skills

• Ability to think strategically and make collaborative decisions
• Ability to apply structured analysis methods to various types of data to establish trends, determine variability and business impact
• Communicates quickly, clearly, concisely, appropriately and intelligently
• Foster open communication, speaks with impact, listens to others and writes effectively
• Experience with alternate management methods using SSH, serial connections and the command-line interface TMSH
• Ability to effectively negotiate with vendors on upgrades and acquisitions
• Effective planning, time management, negotiation and delegation skills
• Expert level IT security processes and controls knowledge as well as IT infrastructure and networking technical knowledge
• Ability to approach problems with an open-mind and create new and innovative ideas and methods
• Advanced technical writing
• Experience in documentation tools such as Visio and Microsoft Office products
• Advanced information security standards/frameworks (ie, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001) skills
• Advanced experience with Network and VLAN segmentation
• Ability to approach problems with an open-mind, use existing information and resources
• Creative, Innovative, problem-solving and maximizing your potential to solve problems and improve methods
• Think positively when faced with obstacles, build on others ideas, think logically and intuitively
• Detail oriented and strong analytical skills

Experience and Education

• Minimum of 1 to 5 years of experience in large and complex business environments with a successful track record working directly with senior level management preferred
• Minimum of 1 year experience within Cybersecurity domain
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience strongly preferred

Licenses

• Cybersecurity related certifications strongly preferred

What We Offer:

Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Our Culture:

Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Compensation:

Competitive pay and bonus eligibility

Work Life Balance:

Flexible hybrid work environment, 4-days a week in office in Irving, Texas