Security Engineer consultant

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Security Engineer I (Data Manager)

Job Description Seeking a motivated and out-going individual for a Data Manager position within an Information Security Services team. A Data Manager works jointly with Data Custodians and systems support personnel to facilitate the collection, delivery and on-going management of specially controlled data used to support business activities including the issuance of consumer payment accounts and the authorization of payment related transactions. 

Job Specific Responsibilities • Prioritize, coordinate and oversee the execution of day-to-day service delivery and data management activities in accordance with established operating procedures and security policies.

• Consult with a wide variety of teams, including client sales, service and implementations, project management, and business and technical support teams to determine their support needs and fulfill support requests.

• Monitor work queues against operating SLAs on a daily basis, and respond to inquiries and support requests.

• Manage the completeness, integrity and availability of operational records supporting day-to-day processes.

• Navigate a fast-paced environment, negotiate conflict and manage changing and competing priorities.

• Maintain procedural and work flow documentation governing the management and security of cryptographic keys.

• Proactively assess operating procedures and information flows to identify optimization opportunities to improve the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of activities performed.

• Assist with identifying, communicating, researching, evaluating and remediating errors, issues and risks.

• Participate in the evaluation of new technologies and product capabilities, and adapt operating procedures to support selected solutions and services.

• Collect data from a variety of manual and systematic processes, execute data validation processes, and periodically generate and disseminate reporting and metrics.

• Work collaboratively with other team members, and promote a positive work environment.

Candidate Requirements 

• Possess strong organizational skills, and attention to detail.

• Demonstrated experience quickly learning new technologies and processes and subsequently training others, thinking critically and contributing ideas.

• Maintain a flexible work schedule and periodically assist with off-hours/overnight support activities.

• Travel locally and domestically up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience managing symmetric and/or asymmetric cryptographic keys and/or cryptographic hardware security modules.

• Knowledge of cryptography related standards and payment network compliance requirements.

• An understanding of client solutions for facilitating transactions made by consumers at a merchant’s Point Of Sale machine, an ATM, on the web and on a smart phone.

• Experience applying a quality management or process improvement framework such as Six Sigma, or an information security / operational risk management framework, i.e. ISO and NIST Standards.

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to alih(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-955-3955.