What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Prin Security Engineer position at Consumers Energy?
Join the diverse and dynamic team that powers Michigan's largest energy provider and one of the nation's largest gas and electric combination utilities. Consumers Energy services 6.8 million of Michigan's 10 million residents - caring for our friends and neighbors in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. We embrace a cleaner and leaner utility vision focused on eliminating energy waste and adding renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar.
Summary
The Senior Principal Security Engineer is responsible for making decisions and providing technical leadership on projects to expand business capabilities while increasing the security posture of Consumers Energy. Furthermore, the Senior Principal Security Engineer will consult on the design, development, integration, and analysis of platforms, while working with systems, hardware, software, and variety of technical and non-technical teams to meet the business objectives in a secure manner. The Senior Principal Security Engineer is a recognized as an expert within the organization, both within and beyond their own function. This position will also provide direction on roadmaps and architecture standards.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Installation and configuration of security related platforms including any version upgrades, changes, and patching, including deploying and managing platform, application or server resources and related infrastructure
- Assisting Business Partners on Tier 2/3 issues
- Managing operational issues and incidents through completion
- Managing relationships with Business Partners to facilitate integration into single or multiple security domains such as automation, asset security, security architecture and engineering, identity and access management, security assessment and testing, and security operations.
- Works with Business partners and provides the interpretation of the security standards. This role will also assist in working through various requirements questionnaire with business partners to ensure programs/applications are properly secured by meeting the appropriate standards (Encryption, Authentication, etc) The Senior Principal Engineer will be responsible for Approval of designs along with communicating any Security Risks with Leadership.
- Selects and executes the appropriate standard practices, procedures, and workflow for team activities, such as daily operating reviews, technical Implementations, standards development, CE Way activities to ensure any gaps noted in processes are shared with the team for remediation. This role is also responsible for approving changes for any process improvements within Engineering.
- Engage, lead, and/or mentor other Security employees, especially associate engineers and career engineers.
- Researches, designs, and approves new security technologies and architectures* Conducts Security reviews and approvals to ensure designs are meeting the applicable security standards along with addressing regulatory requirements.
- Build a strong relationship with internal and external teams by discussing emergent/new technology roll outs, participating in technical review meetings that include cross-functional teams both highly technical and non-technical personnel.
- Develops standards and executes practices, procedures and workflow for team metrics and activities. Provides broad architectures decisions to business partners and security engineers.
- Participates in, and at times, responsible for, strategic decision-making with respect to security controls. Can effectively weight opposing advantages while balancing organization risk appetite.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Ability to learn and adapt new concepts to build a professional body of knowledge.
- Working knowledge of computer network concepts.
- Knowledge of Information Technology (IT) or Network systems and designs.
- Awareness of security industry concepts, best practices, and trends.
- High degree of integrity and confidentiality, as well as ability to adhere to company policies and best practices.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Work and Education Requirements
- Bachelors Degree Required in Cyber Security, Computer Science or Information Technology. In lieu of a Bachelor's Degree, candidate must have 8 years of experience directly related to the position.
- 10 years of experience, including in a production or academic setting, with cyber security and/or computer networks
Perferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree inCyber Security, Computer Science or Information Technology.
- GIAC Certification
- CISSP Certification
Why should you join our team?
At Consumers Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k with company match
- Paid parental leave
- Up to 13 paid Holidays
- Paid time off
- Educational Assistance Program
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
We, at CMS Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don't discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women's Advisory Panel (WAP), Women's Engineering Network (WEN), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
