Job Details:

Job Description: 

The Cyber Defense organization is seeking an Information Security Engineer to support comprehensive offensive and defensive security operations across multiple enterprise environments. You will join a highly collaborative Agile DevOps delivery team of information security professionals responsible for proactively identifying/remediating vulnerabilities, conducting threat assessments, and implementing robust security measures to protect Intel's critical assets, systems, and applications.

The Cyber Defense team manages security controls spanning vulnerability scanning, security patching, penetration testing, application security, cloud security, and lab security across all Intel domains. Our offensive security operations include thorough security assessments of enterprise-connected assets including physical hosts, network devices, applications, virtual machines, cloud infrastructure, and social engineering vectors.

This role requires a passion for quality, security, automation, and the skills to understand complex systems with a desire for continual improvement and innovation. You will join a DevOps team of Information Security professionals responsible for developing, configuring, and operating security controls.

This includes security controls validation, discovery, offensive security, attack detection and containment, vulnerability detection and remediation, development of AI models and agentic systems that respond to AI generated attack paths.

As an Information Security Engineer your responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

• Configuration, management, and operations of core platforms within the Cyber Defense organization (e.g. vulnerability/application scanning, security patching, asset discovery/identification, exposure management, etc.).
• Perform external attack surface management responsibilities such as, attack path analysis, exposure exploitability analysis, and tactical remediation and containment of high-risk exposures
• Verify efficacy of security controls implemented on a variety of Intel enterprise systems, infrastructure, and applications.
• Recommend remediation actions to discovered security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
• Evaluate threat intelligence and determine potential risk to Intel.
  Understand and emulate adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures in assessing the security posture of a wide range of systems.
• Work closely with software development engineers, system engineers, and other information security teams in supporting information security projects and initiatives.
• Develop and support security solutions that integrate and interface with customers/business units.
• Produce quality reporting documentation, tailoring the relative detail of the content to the audience.
• Be a team player within the functional team, and across other Intel teams and stakeholders.
• Support vulnerability assessments of AI systems by running scans, documenting findings, and helping track remediation of identified issues in models and datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand AI workflows and identify potential security gaps.
• Help develop defensive and / or offensive AI agents / to respond to or emulate AI assisted attackers.
• Support and work in an Agile and DevOps team focused on security operations, analytics, and solution development.

The ideal candidate should show the following behavioral traits:

• Strong communication and coordination skills across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated results leveraging perseverance, patience, persistence, problem-solving, vulnerability hunting, and the willingness to work well with ambiguity.

A collaborative team player with a good attitude, trustworthy, knows when to push and when to stop, and understands the potential downstream impacts of technical actions.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or any other science/engineering related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Information Security operations, vulnerability management, and/or service delivery.

Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

• Experience in Offensive Security and Vulnerability Management including Vulnerability Assessment, Identification, and Remediation.
• Server/system architectures, operating systems, system patching, system and security configuration, auditing, and automation.
• Windows and Linux administration (i.e., installation, configuration, and troubleshooting).
• Experience in adversary emulation, network penetration testing, web application penetration testing, and cloud penetration testing (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Practical experience with Windows, PowerShell, Active Directory, EntraID (Azure Active Directory), Linux OS (various flavors), networking, scripting/coding (Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, BASH, Go, etc.), cloud security, and DevOps/CICD/container/K8s.
• Developing scripting and automation solutions to support system configuration, performance, and troubleshooting.
• AI/LLM and AI Agents knowledge and experience.
• Implementing and supporting cloud-based solutions / Network protocols (TCP/IP) as well as protocols associated with common device communications / Information Security best practices and technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and with Scrum practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with a breadth of technical skills, and an eagerness to Information security certifications through industry recognized organizations such as: SANS, ISACA (CISM), ISC2 (CISSP), CompTIA (Security+), MCSE, AWS, CCNA, ITIL). Offensive security certifications (e.g. CEH, OSCP, CRTO) and other pen-testing certifications.

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: 

US, California, Folsom

Additional Locations:

US, Arizona, Phoenix

Business group:

IT is the trusted technology partner for Intel's business, relentlessly focused on the experience of our people, our end users, and our customers. We design and support Intel's IT infrastructure, driving e-Commerce and web services with a focus on robust security and identity protection.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

 

 

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $89,340.00-175,210.00 USD

 

 

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

 

 

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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