Senior Information Security Engineer

Company Summary

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.

Job Summary

Information Security Engineer will monitor computer networks for security issues and investigate security breaches and other cyber security incidents. Install security measures and operate software to protect systems and information infrastructure, including firewalls and data encryption programs. Work with security team to perform tests and uncover network vulnerabilities. Fix detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high-security standard. Document security breaches and assess the damage they cause

Competencies:

• •Follow ITIL practices regarding incident, problem and change management and use domain knowledge to improve/enhance the work output of ISO team
• •Providing guidance and support to technical teams on security standards and industry best practice
• •Performing security operations and maintenance using security tools
• •Manage and assist in performing on-going security monitoring of information systems including assessing information security risk through qualitative risk analysis on a regular basis
• •Assessing the impact of emerging threats and managing teams to co-ordinate appropriate remedial actions
• •Evaluating and recommending new information security technologies and counter-measures against threats to information or privacy
• •Designing and implementing dashboards and data visualizations for various stakeholders and escalate problems to the respective authority when needed
• •Ensuring that disaster recovery and emergency operating procedures are in place and tested on a regular basis - Conducting risk analysis to identify critical operations and systems that are core to continued business operations in the event of a disruption
• •Applying professional judgment in complex situations and handle effectively multiple tasks, initiatives and priorities

Technical Skills:

• •Understanding of basic network services, vulnerabilities and attacks
• •Good knowledge of cryptography, application security, access control, malware, exploits and vulnerabilities
• •Internet security, networking protocols, and related technologies, including IDS/IPS, firewalls such as Cisco, PaloAlto, etc, content filtering, and packet inspection
• •Knowledge on Cloud technology and concepts
• •Basic knowledge of any scripting languages or automation
• •OS Concepts Windows, Linux and Unix server platforms
• •Security managements tools and applications - Intrusion Prevention System : Sourcefire, AV : Symantec, Vulnerability Assessment via Qualys and WebInsepct, SIEM : ArcSight, Threat Detection via Vectra, Ticketing/ Change Management via ServiceNow, FireMon
• •Monitoring platforms, Microsoft Infrastructure applications
• •Other tools - AV and Malware analysis tools, Opensource Scanning tools, reporting tools, threat intelligence feeds, others
• •Developing and maintaining network and data security capabilities used by the Information Security Operation (ISO) team
• •Driving the development and ongoing tuning and optimization of security event monitoring and analysis application platforms
• •Assisting in establishing and supporting enterprise policies, processes, and standard Service level agreement levels

Educational Qualification and Experience:

Minimum of 15 years of formal education - Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology.

Professional work experience of 4 to 9 years.

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.