Cyber Security Infrastructure Engineer Threat Visibility

Lumen Technologies has an immediate need for a Lead Information Security Engineer who can help design, engineer, build, deploy, and support infrastructure solutions that expand visibility for searching out and identifying cyber threats.

The person selected will complete tasks to implement desired strategies assigned by a team leader or manager with some oversight. She/he will have good communications skills and some experience in presenting technical issues to a wide variety of audiences. In addition, the candidate needs technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies.

• Investigate, engineer, deploy, troubleshoot, & support technologies to monitor network and host systems for cyber threats and alert incident response.


• Collaborate with other Lumen organizations and teams for support in meeting team goals (e.g. system deployment).


• Perform system and application administration for Corporate Security infrastructure to ensure availability, capability, and stability required to support incident response functions.


• Perform system and application tuning for maximum effectiveness and minimizing false notifications.


• Automation of work functions and capabilities.


• Assist with management of vendors for meeting Lumen needs and improving capabilities.


• Develop and maintain metrics that show value and improvement for technologies and processes.


• Create and analyze utilization statistics of systems to identify causes for system degradations as well as recommend required system enhancements for business case and budget approval.


• Perform upgrading, patching, hardening, user access permissions, and routine maintenance of Security infrastructure systems.


• Develop and support tools and programs for other Information Security teams.


• Develop / modify and follow associated corporate and workgroup processes applicable to the role (e.g. change and outage management).

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.


• 5 years of relevant security & computing system administration, virtualization, configuration, and support experience of Linux systems.

• 5 years of network design, support, and troubleshooting (router, firewall, switch, TAP, …) experience.

• Excellent understanding of common computing platforms, including Windows, Linux, and vendor specific appliances.


• Experience in analyzing general system processing throughput, utilization, and capacity.


• Strong work ethic, demonstrated self-starter, ability to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment with excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Candidate must possess, or be willing to pursue, applicable professional/technical certifications, such as CISSP.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Application and/or scripting development experience


• Familiar with Atlassian Confluence use and support


• Familiar with Ansible Open Source Automation


• Experience with large enterprise data centers and/or networks.