CyberSecurity Engineer - Remote

The Nielsen Legal Team supports the company globally, protecting Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The team places a focus on developing excellence and agility as we minimize risk and move the business forward. The team comprises attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants. Whether we’re solving a problem or averting a crisis, we are focused on creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve business opportunities, and help business to flourish. 
Nielsen is the industry’s most trusted data analytics solution for video content across all platforms and devices. We follow modern security practices to uphold the privacy and security of all our data and systems. 
We're protecting tens of thousands of endpoints across multiple cloud and on premise environments. As a Cybersecurity Engineer you'll have the opportunity to work with industry leading technologies at scale to protect our products from an always evolving threat landscape. This hands-on position will be responsible for our end-to-end endpoint security controls and collaborate with other cross-functional teams to ensure central cybersecurity solutions are effective and in alignment with Nielsen’s strategic goals.
Nielsen provides all its employees with opportunities for education & training, including reimbursement for certification or degree programs and the chance to attend training conferences. We also provide an unlimited PTO program and advancement opportunities along a technical or managerial path of your preference.

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsible for the design, build, configuration and maintenance for internal cybersecurity functions including: SIEM, monitoring, technology integrations, infrastructure & configuration as code, and ETL.
• Provide cybersecurity guidance on the strategy, implementation, and maintenance of technologies including but not limited to: SIEM, SOAR, and UBA.
• Utilize SIEM to ingest, enrich, and tune data that will provide value to the Cybersecurity Incident Response team.
• Discover opportunities and implement automation to drive efficiencies across technologies and processes within cybersecurity engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within the cybersecurity team to develop dashboards, reports, alerts, and tools to meet requirements.
• Collaborate with technology teams to ensure systems and services are appropriately configured for monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
• Report, investigate when appropriate, and recommend corrective actions for cybersecurity incidents.
• Advise incident responders on actions necessary to investigate and resolve cybersecurity incidents.
• Remain current on cybersecurity technology, vulnerabilities, attacks, and countermeasures.
• Review performance, availability, and capacity metrics of internally and externally hosted services and service components to compare with service agreements.
• Troubleshoot escalated cybersecurity endpoint, data, and network problems.
• Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade cybersecurity measures to protect enterprise data and infrastructure.
• Work from your home office #remote

A Little About You

• With your problem-solving abilities and strong understanding of cybersecurity, you can help Nielsen stay on the forefront of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. 
• You are proactive in finding and correcting issues, and in looking for ways to maximize effectiveness of existing technologies.
• It is important to you to stay current on vulnerabilities, exploits, and the expanding cyber-attack surface (cloud services, remote work, IoT, supply chain).
• You approach challenges from new perspectives and develop effective solutions for unique problems.
• You appreciate the importance of operations as an enabler for incremental development and can effectively prioritize and perform work with autonomy.
• You look for opportunities to drive efficiency via automation and collaboration.
• You work efficiently but know how to take a break as you work remotely #remote

Your Background and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Information Systems or Cybersecurity related discipline; or 5 years of direct cybersecurity experience
• Experience with a variety of operating systems including Windows, Linux and UNIX in a functional capacity 
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, UBA, XDR 
• Knowledge of cloud computing standards and controls (AWS,GCP, Azure)
• Advanced scripting/ automation experience (Python, Shell, Bash, Ansible)
• Experience providing and validating security requirements related to information system design, implementation and processes
• Knowledge of common information security standards, such as: ISO, CIS, NIST
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with minimal supervision
• Ability to communicate technical details in a clear, understandable manner
• Security certification such as SANS/GIAC, CISSP, CEH, OSCP