Job Description

Company Summary

Join our team! As a global leader in providing title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, First American (NYSE: FAF) is an ideal place to build your career. We have been entrusted with helping our customers achieve and protect their dream of homeownership since 1889. We believe that our people are the key to the companys continued success, and we invest in diverse talents and backgrounds and empower our teams to achieve more than they could anywhere else. First American has created an award-winning culture and has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fifth consecutive year and to more than 50 regional Best Places to Work lists. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com

Job Summary

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for conducting Cyber Defensive Operations across the First American enterprise and collaborating with engineers and analysts to develop solutions that address the full cyber event and incident response life cycle while working with the operations teams to maintain the integrity and confidence in First American security technologies. The Cyber Defense Team contributes daily in the defense against cyber adversaries and the ever-changing threat landscape.

Duties and responsibilities

* Stay up-to-date on the current threats from internal and publicly available external sources and evaluate the risk to the enterprise
* Create and update malware hunting queries
* Perform risk assessments for highly visible critical vulnerabilities that are applicable to First American
* Carry out regular application, network, systems and infrastructure penetration tests
* Keep up to date with latest testing and ethical hacking methods
* Generate technical reports and executive summaries on findings of penetration testing
* Provide technical / analytical recommendations for improvement to the Security Operations team
* Provide analysis of system and network incident response
* Configure, implement and maintain security applications and infrastructure to support corporate policies, federal and state security regulations
* Using security devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, threat correlation tools, and vulnerability scanning tools to conduct cyber security investigations
* Review technical security controls and make recommendations to improve security and visibility
* Interact with auditors, providing evidence as needed
* Interact with internal and external clients on security requirements, identify security process and develop strategies/solutions to address security issues while maintaining tight security discipline
* Collaborate with application and system development teams to configure and deploy systems and applications in a secure manner
* Conducts tests of network infrastructure, applications and security architecture to identify potential weakness and make recommendations for improvement
* Participate in investigations of cyber security incidents including incident response, containment of the incident and forensics

Qualifications:

* High school diploma or GED required; Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Electrical Engineering strongly preferred
* Certifications preferred CISSP, CISA; CEH; CSSLP; CCNA, and CCNP
* Eight years of cyber security experience
* Must have at least 3-5 years of experience with networking, intrusion detection, VPN, PKI, Cisco and PIX firewalls, SIEM, Identity management and encryption technologies
* Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required
* Experience in vulnerability management and penetration testing

First American invests in its employees' development and well-being, empowers them to provide superior customer service and encourages them to serve the communities where they live and work. First American is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer.