Security Engineer - Cloud at Costco in Schaumburg, IL

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Security Engineers develop, design, implement, and integrate security systems used to safeguard enterprise assets against cyber-attack. Security Engineers drive innovation, influence delivery, and maximize performance. They deliver high quality artifacts, develop and run security tests and continuously tune security tools for optimization. Security Engineers identify gaps and inefficiencies and work with the business to implement solutions based on their requirements.

As part of the Digital Site Security team the Cloud Security Engineer will be focused on improving the security posture and delivery of new and enhanced security capabilities for Costco BC and BD properties.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Provides security and technical expertise to support the development of security objects to satisfy business requirements.

● Analyzes and administers security policies to control physical and virtual system access.

● Identifies and investigates security issues and develops security solutions that address compliance requirements that can/ do impact security.

● Identifies, develops, and implements mechanisms to detect security incidents in order to enhance compliance and support of the security standards and procedures.

● Assesses business role requirements, reviews authorization roles, and supports authorizations.

● Demonstrates a comprehensive skill set with testing authorizations for multiple environments and coordinates testing with business/technical users.

● Validates system configurations to ensure the safety of information systems assets and protects information systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.

● Implements best practice when applying knowledge of information systems security standards/practices (e.g. Access control and system hardening, system audit and log file monitoring, security policies, and incident handling).

● Designs and coordinates activities/engagements with other departments (loss prevention, legal, networking, etc.).

● Identifies security gaps that expose Costco to potential exploit and develop short- and long-term prioritized remediation to address those gaps.

● Develops and executes security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal/external data infiltrations.

● Determines strategy and protocol for network behavior, analysis techniques, and tool implementation.

● Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options; and implements solutions that support the business.

● Provides subject matter expertise in systems security policies, standards/practices, protocols, and technologies.

● Configures, deploys, maintains, and supports security tools.

● Protects confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information from being disclosed to unauthorized parties.

● Creates dashboards, configures alerts, implements and supports security software platforms, and monitors tools/apps.

● Identifies opportunities for streamlining, and increasing effectiveness through continuous process improvement.

● Implements practices, processes, and procedures consistent with Costco's information security policy and IT standards.

● Develops and documents security events and incident handling procedures into Playbooks.

● Ensures that incident documentation is comprehensive, accurate, and complete.

● Triages, prioritizes, investigates, and coordinates security events and incident handling activities.

● Collaborates with business partners, project teams, and team members to build secure solutions that protects data and enables the business with tools and processes that make sense and adapt to changing business needs both on-premises and in the cloud.

● Works with internal and external auditors.

● Designs, configures and maintains various degrees of security.

● Works with stakeholders and Security Architects to identify security solutions that support their business requirements.

● Partners with other Information Security groups to conduct security risk assessments on new solutions and systems, periodic security risk assessments on existing systems; and identifies and/or recommends appropriate security mitigations and best practices.

REQUIRED

● 2+ years’ experience in Security Engineering.

● Experience in offensive security roles, such as penetration testing or ethical hacking.

● Experience with Security Engineering of sites hosted in Public Cloud (Google, Azure)

● Experience working with WAFs and CDNs such as Akamai or Fastly.

● Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g. Python, JS, Java, SQL) for tool development and automation.

● Strong understanding of operating systems, network protocols, and web application security.

● Extensive experience with security tools and frameworks (e.g. Kasada, Microsoft DFP, Bloodhound, Cobalt Strike.).

● Vast experience in performing code review to identify vulnerabilities.

● A passion for cybersecurity and a commitment to staying current with emerging threats and industry trends.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.

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