At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the Endpoint Security team! The engineer is responsible for providing engineering and operations in support of multiple endpoint security technologies. The engineer will have the opportunity to become a member of a team managing several pioneering technologies.

Our Impact:

We reduce information risk by ensuring and enhancing the Confidentiality, Availability, and Integrity of Information systems at Freddie Mac.

Your Impact:

• Install, configure and troubleshoot Endpoint antivirus/antimalware and other agent-based software on Windows desktops, as well as Windows and Unix servers.
• Apply patches and upgrades to clients, administrative tools, and utilities on a regular basis.
• Perform daily monitoring for integrity and availability of appliances, management servers, systems and processes which may also include reviewing system and application logs, and verifying services and jobs are running as expected.
• Establish and maintain operational, configuration and other process/procedures to ensure effectiveness of new and existing detective and preventative configuration policies.
• Provide support Management and IT Security Audit teams to provide answers, artifacts and solutions.
• Provide support to the Cyber Security Operations Center and Threat Detection Teams with recommendations and handling of their requests for changes, updates and improvements to endpoint polices.
• Understanding of Cloud Security, containers and workloads and how to secure them.
• Coordinate with other infrastructure, engineering and application project/support teams to ensure new policies/assets are deployed and issues impacting tools and systems are resolved quickly and effectively without adversely impacting the affected business systems.
• Augment production support team to ensure 24/7 coverage and operations. Responsibilities sometimes require working evenings and weekends, sometimes with little or no advanced notice.
• Coordinate with Information Security team to ensure solution assurance and compliance to security policy, procedures, standards and baseline security configurations.
• Understand and advocate IT Security standards, reference architectures.
• An understanding of malware, threats, vulnerabilities and the complete affect these could have in the environment.
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative technical solutions and strategies.

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in IT Security or equivalent.
• 3-5+ years of experience in administration of security tools
• Experience with CrowdStike is highly preferred
• An understanding of Malware Protection, EDR, Activity Monitoring, Malware Isolation, Cloud Security.
• An understanding of IOCs/IOAs, Host Based Firewalls (HIPS)
• Understanding and recognize the difference between Vulnerabilities, Risks and Threats and how to help mitigate them.
• Organized self-starter with the ability to multitask, working multiple problems, tasks.
• Problem solver, good at identifying issues and having ideas or remediation solutions. Seeing problems/issues to closure.
• Must have experience with physical and virtual appliances, SaaS platforms, Linux and Windows servers, Windows workstations, EC2s, modest scripting knowledge
• Network Security knowledge a plus but not required.

• Must be able to effectively perform both independently and cross-functionally as a strong team contributor.
• Can work to help model and mentor other team members
• Strong communication