AT&T Hiring for Principal-Cybersecurity at Jefferson City, Missouri Full Time

Overall Purpose: This career step requires expert level experience. Responsible for cyber security areas across products, services, infrastructure, networks, and/or applications while providing protection for AT&T, our customers and our vendors/partners. Works with senior team members on various projects relating to the protection of devices, customers, assets, data, information technology, and networks. Supports innovation, strategic planning, technical proof of concepts, testing, lab work, and various other technical program management related tasks associated with the cyber security programs.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: Includes ideation, testing, proof of concept and support for various cyber related projects. Analysis, of complex security issues and the development and engineering activities to help mitigate risk. Analyzes various hardware and/or software solutions recommending purchases and identifying modifications to fit AT&T’s cyber security needs and that of our managed services teams. Develops policies and procedures to minimize network intrusion, malware events and vulnerability issues for internal and external customers. Applies measures to block malicious code and applications. Includes forward looking research, planning and strategy to strengthen our stance against future cyber security threats, and enhance our mitigation techniques and technology solutions. Areas of work in this area include, but are not limited to: Cyber Incident Response, cyber product testing, cyber risk & strategic analysis, cyber research, cyber awareness & training, cyber vulnerability detection & assessment, cyber intelligence & investigation, cyber networks & systems engineering, cyber security application testing, cyber digital forensics & forensics analysis, cyber software assurance, cyber business operations & support, cyber application development & testing, cyber operational support, cyber IoT planning & testing, cyber policy & requirements & standards.

Summary of Work: The Tactical Architecture Group is a group of lead network security architects and strategists within the ACC Enterprise Security Architecture organization. Work efforts include ideation, testing, proof of concept and support for various firewall /security projects. The team analyzes various hardware and/or software solutions recommending and identifying modifications to improve ACC’s Firewall threat posture/risk. Additionally, the TAG team plays a lead role and is responsible for transforming the legacy “Conexus” network into a modernized segmented network. Resource will focus on identity/posture technologies to develop a target architecture for the domestic and international networks. This position will work with our partner organizations in Labs, ITO Network, and GTO to develop and realize strategies to achieve the target state architecture. The scope will impact all employees of the company and all business units.

Required Skills: Principal-Cybersecurity – Expert level security architecture knowledge and experience supporting networking technologies, firewall solutions, identity management, threat detection/mitigation. Strong knowledge of AT&T enterprise networks. Extensive knowledge of cloud security practices and technologies. Must by highly proficient in firewall support and engineering across multiple platforms.

Desired Skills: Azure Experience, High level of previous Palo Alto experience, Check Point experience

Job Contribution: Expert level technical professional. Advisor on technical knowledge and ATT technologies.

Education: Preferred bachelor’s degree in information systems, Engineering, Mathematics or Cyber Security or equivalent experience.

Experience: Typically requires 8-10 years’ experience. Technical Career Pathway (TCP) role.

Supervisory: No.

We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status.