Lead Information Security Engineer

Lumen Lead Information Security Engineer Concord, New Hampshire Apply Now

Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.

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The Role

Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs is seeking a Linux Information Security Engineer to join our US-based Information Security / Big Data team.

This small team of passionate security researchers works on vast, unique information security related data sets using our distributed computing cluster.

The team is looking for a knowledgeable Linux admin with a passion for learning, running distributed systems, and an interest in the security domain.

If you enjoy being at the cutting edge of technology and making the Internet a safer place, then this is the job for you.

This position will work within the platform and infrastructure of Black Lotus Labs, supporting the ongoing operations of a big data infrastructure that is used to ingest, parse, store, and analyze cyber threats.

The work effort of the role is focused on the ongoing operational support of on-premises and cloud hosted Linux (Ubuntu) systems that support our Hadoop ecosystem (HBase, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, etc.

Elasticsearch and Redis clusters, Docker using Docker Swarm, a malware environment, and a network of honeypots.

The Main Responsibilities

• Manage a compute cluster of 200+ machines
• Tune and optimize systems
• Monitor and contribute to alerting systems
• Respond to system alerts
• Investigate system resources and processes issues
• Add to the monitoring and alerting systems

What We Look For in a Candidate

Candidates must have a strong background demonstrating :

• Knowledge of big data distributed systems like Hadoop
• Knowledge of Linux administration
• Knowledge of system logging
• Knowledge of host networking

Highly desired skills, experience, or knowledge will include :

• Experience with Linux system usage or administration
• Experience with distributed Systems
• Experience with Docker and Docker Swarm
• Experience with Git repository
• Scripting and automation (Bash / Python) of systems
• Experience with CI / CD deployment tools
• Experience with task tracking software like Jira
• Administrating virtual machines on cloud providers
• Securing Linux systems and associated applications
• Managing systems with infrastructure tools like Salt, Bash, Ansible, or Puppet
• Administrating ElasticSearch clusters

EEO Statement

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Disclaimer

The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.

It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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