Lead Security Engineer | GID – Boston, MA
GID is a leading real estate investment and management firm that operates a diverse portfolio of multifamily, industrial, and mixed-use developments across the United States. With over 60 years of experience across multiple asset classes, GID is an established real estate private equity investor and fiduciary supported by an integrated operating platform with approximately 54,000 multifamily units and over 25M square feet of industrial and commercial space of assets under management. The company also operates a credit platform that aims to provide commercial real estate debt solutions for institutional borrowers.
With corporate offices in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, New York City, and San Francisco, GID employs over 1,200 real estate professionals and operates an expansive portfolio of existing and under-development properties valued at over $30.11 billion as of June 2023.
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DESCRIPTION:
Protecting enterprises from hackers and other bad actors is becoming a critical role in every business. Security engineering plays a vital role in building out cybersecurity and data privacy capabilities as well as advising the CISO. This role leads the first line of defense in responding to security alerts.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for the cybersecurity of our infrastructure from for networks, laptops, servers, and SaaS applications following a Zero Trust model
- Work with CISO, legal, and compliance teams on data privacy initiatives
- Own the configuration, tuning, and design of alerting for our infrastructure: CrowdStrike, Zscaler, our SIEM, and other tooling
- Immediately conduct comprehensive analysis and investigation on a wide range of security events and implement remediation measures
- Lead our SIRP process
- Manage our SOC
- Stay up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, trends, and threat intelligence
- Advise on options, risks, system impacts, best practices, and technology priorities
- Remediate security and data privacy gaps identified by penetration testing, tooling, and third-party assessments
REQUIREMENTS:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and five to 10 years of increasing responsibility in an IT environment.
- 7+ years of security engineering experience in a mid-sized environment with a strong focus
- Proven working experience securing Saas Applications and Zero Trust
- In depth understanding of technology infrastructure and related processes
- Willingness to continuously learn
- Problem solving skills and ability to think strategically
- Effective communication to leadership
- 5+ years leadership and management
Drug testing and background checks are an employment requirement. These are required steps in the hiring process.
Our company considers a range of factors including education and experience when determining base compensation.
GID is an Equal Opportunity Employer