Principal-security Engrg

**When you join Verizon**:
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

**What you’ll be doing...**

Operations
- Developing and implementing enhanced detection capabilities and improved event correlation from various sources of logs.
- Identifying trends and anomalies: Utilize advanced analytics, machine learning, and statistical methods to identify emerging threat patterns, anomalous behavior, and potential attack vectors based on aggregated data.
- Predictive capabilities: Developing and implementing predictive models to anticipate future security risks and vulnerabilities, enabling proactive remediation and control implementation.
- Utilizing various monitoring tools (Splunk, Cequence, Guardium) capabilities to analyze data, identify anomalies, and investigate potential security breaches.
- Risk scoring and prioritization: Establishing intelligent risk scoring mechanisms for vulnerabilities and threats based on impact, likelihood, and observed patterns.
- Identifying potential attack surfaces, design flaws, and vulnerabilities early in the development process.
- Providing expert guidance and recommendations for secure design and implementation.
- Utilizing insights from security tools and transaction data to assist in root cause analysis and forensic investigations.
- Communicating the complexities of security with a wide variety of audiences, including senior management, external customers.

Automation & Tooling:

- Driving the automation of security testing, monitoring, and reporting processes.
- Integrating security tools seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to achieve DevSecOps maturity.

Research & Innovation:

- Being open to take up certain role responsibilities and skills to evolve over time to better align with changing business and market needs, which may also include a requirement to perform additional responsibilities as and when required.

**What we’re looking for...**

**You'll need to have**:

- Bachelor's degree or six or more years of work experience
- Nine or more years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security Architecture Design, Information Security Management, Vulnerability Management, Program Management.
- Experience in Forensic Computing, Penetration Testing, Intelligence Analysis, AI/ML.
- CISSP certified or pursuing.

**Even better if you have one or more of the following**
- Independent judgment and discretion, and risk analysis skills.
- Experience in Security Operations including the handling, identification, analysis and resolution of various security-related matters with limited guidance
- Ability to juggle competing demands and to prioritize work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to work autonomously and in a team environment, while paying strict attention to detail

**Where you’ll be working**: In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

**Scheduled Weekly Hours**: 40

**Equal Employment Opportunity**:
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.