Job Details

Company: enGen

Job Summary: The Senior Data Protection Engineer is a critical member of the Data Protection team, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the organization's data protection infrastructure and applications. The Senior Engineer will lead complex projects, troubleshoot critical incidents, provide technical guidance, mentorship, and lead development of Data Protection engineering policies, standards, and procedures. This role requires deep expertise in Microsoft Purview, ForcePoint, BigID, Varonis, Windows, Linux, GKE, Encryption, and other DLP/DSPM tools.

Location: Remote (United States)

Eligibility: U.S. Citizenship is required.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's data protection infrastructure across multiple platforms and vendors, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security. This includes DLP, DSPM, data de-identification solutions, and more.
• Design and architect robust data protection solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices for both on-premises and cloud-based environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Develop, implement, and maintain data protection policies across all relevant platforms and systems, configuring sensitive information types, tuning detection parameters, managing exception lists, and more.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis to determine underlying causes of errors, leveraging advanced troubleshooting techniques and escalating to appropriate teams when necessary to ensure timely remediation.
• Proactively manage complex data protection projects with minimal supervision, leading meetings, providing technical presentations, and effectively communicating project status and proposals to stakeholders, including cross-functional initiatives.
• Develop custom data protection solutions and automation scripts (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and support the deployment and maintenance of data protection software, integrating with existing systems and leveraging DevOps practices such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Helm charts.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Stay up-to-date on relevant data privacy regulations and industry standards, ensuring the organization maintains a strong data protection posture.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Experience

Required

• 7 years of experience with Data Loss Prevention
• 7 years of experience with Information Security and Systems Analysis
• 5 years of experience with at least two modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell, etc.)
• 5 years of experience designing and providing architectural support to at least two cloud service providers: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure
• 5 years of experience deploying and maintaining infrastructure for DLP software
• 5 years of experience creating and managing DLP policies
• 5 years of experience with Operating Systems and Software Administration

Preferred

• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies
• 3 years of experience with GitLab or other versioning control tools and processes

Skills

• Demonstrates ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate and present to other technology groups and leaders.
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.
• GitLab or other versioning control tools and processes.
• Terraform or other automation technologies.
• Skills in infrastructure support, such as networking.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with secure SDLC best practices.
• Knowledge of HITRUST CSF, NIST 800-83, PCI, HIPAA, HITECH, COBIT, ISO 27001/2, and ITIL 3.

Education

Required – Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Information Assurance, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred – Master's degree in Information Security, Information Systems, Information Assurance, Computer Science, or related field.

Licenses or Certifications

Preferred – CISSP, Advanced certification in any of these cloud providers (GCP, AWS, or Azure, e.g., Professional Cloud Architect/Security Engineer), Terraform or similar certification.

Compensation

Pay Range Minimum: $78,900.00

Pay Range Maximum: $147,500.00

EEO Statement

Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.