GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
NOTE: We are looking for someone that currently lives in Chicago, Indianapolis, Minnesota, or Columbus, OH for this position.
Role and responsibilities:
- Delivering professional services in an enterprise level consultative role while supporting grown and management of Data Analytics services consulting, presales support, and thought leadership
- Ability to lead a portfolio of large complex projects, delegating tasks across multiple engineering resources and teams without oversight
- Proactively works to mature, develop, and ultimately steer the data analytics practice, including improving existing offerings, creating new offerings, and developing and mentoring team members
- Work closely with GuidePoint Peers to collaborate across the Data Analytics Center of Excellent (CoE) for unified delivery and collateral development.
- Author comprehensive business and technical collateral to support the practice that is proficiently tailored to both technical and managerial audiences
- Support presales / post sales efforts through process and runbook development, Proof of Concept Support, comparison and matrix development, and industry facing activities such as conference speaking, blog/white paper authoring, and podcast speaking/producing
- Up to 30% travel expected primarily within our North Central region (client/vendor meetings, regional events/meetings, QBR's, etc)
Required experience:
- Minimum 5 years delivering professional services in an enterprise level consultative role. 10 years+ total experience in security industry / consulting
- Advanced working knowledge of data analytics platforms and their underlying infrastructure
- Deep expertise architecting and designing enterprise scale data collection, aggregation, normalization, and enrichment strategies
- Deep expertise developing advanced security-focused content for leading SIEM and data aggregation solutions such as Splunk, Elastic, Palo Alto XDR / XSIAM, and Crowdstrike NextGen SIEM. Ideally this includes familiarity with the creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards
- Expertise designing and developing security automation and orchestration (SOAR) playbooks
- Experience with Log Pipeline solutions (e.g. Cribl)
- Scripting and development skills (e.g. BASH, Perl, Python or Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions
- General networking and security troubleshooting (firewalls, routing, NAT, etc.)
- Proficiency in various client and server operating systems and infrastructure solutions
Preferred experience:
- Past experience in an operational role strongly preferred
- Professional service delivery or leadership in IT or Cybersecurity
- Experience with SOAR platforms such as Palo Alto XSOAR/Demisto, Phantom, Torq, Tines, and Swimlane
- Working knowledge of Cloud CSPs / IaaS providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Splunk Certifications such as Splunk Certified Consultant, Splunk Enterprise Security Implementation, and Splunk Certified Architect
- Experience with platforms such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform and SaltStack
- Experience with other Information Security solutions including DLP, CASB, SDWAN, Deception, NAC, Proxy, EDR/EPP/NGAV, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, System Hardening, etc.
- Experience authoring security runbooks, policy, and best practice documentation
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience
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Why GuidePoint?
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1000 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 4,200 customers.
Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some added perks….
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- 100% employer-paid medical premiums (employee only $0 deductible and HSA plans) along with 75% employer-paid family contributions
- 100% employer-paid dental premiums (employee only) along with 75% employer-paid family contributions
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option
