Senior Information Security Engineer

About Us

Founded in 1882, Matson (NYSE: MATX) is a leading provider of ocean transportation and logistics services. Matson provides a vital lifeline of ocean freight transportation services to the domestic, non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, and to other island economies in Micronesia.

Matson also operates premium, expedited services from China to Long Beach, California, which includes cargo from other Asia origins, provides services to Okinawa, Japan, and the South Pacific, and operates an international export service from Alaska to Asia.

Matson Logistics extends the geographic reach of Matson's transportation network throughout North America and Asia. Its integrated logistics services include rail intermodal, highway brokerage, warehousing, freight consolidation, supply chain management, and freight forwarding to Alaska.

Matson is honored to be certified as a Great Place to Work. Learn more at www.matson.com.

About the Role

The Senior Information Security Operations Engineer position provides technical leadership during high-severity events, coordinates cross?functional response efforts, and ensures incidents are handled quickly, consistently, and in accordance with regulatory and company business requirements.

This position will also be responsible for supporting the security monitoring and alerting tools necessary to protect our organization's systems, networks, and data from potential threats. The ideal candidate will have a good mix of hands-on technical knowledge, a strong background in security operations, incident response, security risk mitigation, and security practices.

The individual should be proactive, organized, analytical, detail oriented and persistent.

Security Operations is one of the critical business support responsibilities for the Information Security team. We provide insights regarding threats the company faces and expect to quickly respond and recover from potential cyber events or incidents.

It is important for this individual to understand there are cyber threat actors targeting the maritime industry and we must stay vigilant, be ready to respond in a manner that will limit the impact and allow for quick recovery.

What you’ll do

Support day-to-day security operational tasks such as security event monitoring, log monitoring and security incident management, compliance monitoring, data loss prevention, and monitoring and responding to emerging threats varying from endpoint to server to public cloud; including supporting AWS security environments

• Support resolution of all security-related events and incidents that come into the team's various queues (including triage, containment, and remediation when necessary). Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Playbooks to ensure security events are triaged appropriately and in a timely manner, according to SLAs.
• Understand the various stages of the incident response lifecycle and the analytical mindset when it comes to triage and investigations, including a fundamental understanding of memory processes and memory management practices, or the willingness to learn these principles. Act as one of our support contacts for security incidents and provide direction to infrastructure and applications teams to initiate incident response.
• Perform root cause analysis to continuously improve prevention, detection, reaction, and remediation capabilities.
• Investigate and respond to security events and incidents, including performing root cause analysis, identifying vulnerabilities, and implementing remediation and/or tuning measures.
• Respond to phishing attacks by tracking down and recalling malicious e-mails; contact users who may be impacted.
• Participate in off-hours on-call rotation, as required, and necessary.
• Liaise with internal and external parties, including Managed Security Services Provider, computer forensics specialists, and additional incident responders, to address security concerns.
• Assist in managing the organization's logging environment providing fundamental knowledge of license managers, indexers, and search heads.
• Develop SOAR playbooks to minimize security incident response time and develop advanced techniques to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Understand security incident response plans and procedures, ensuring their effectiveness through regular testing and exercises.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security controls, infrastructure and tools, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, data loss prevention systems, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems are implemented and maintained throughout the organization.
• Conduct research on emerging security threats and trends and recommend appropriate security measures and countermeasures.
• Assist in developing security policies, controls, and procedures to support the full life cycle protection of critical assets, networks, cloud environments, and sensitive information.
• Perform periodic testing for compliance with documented security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Support metrics reporting on security operations functions.
• Identify and respond to AWS security risks, including IAM misconfigurations, excessive permissions, vulnerable workloads, exposed resources, and suspicious cloud activity, with the ability to develop practical remediation and automation solutions.

In addition to those essential job functions identified above, individuals in this position are also responsible for performing other duties or tasks that may be assigned. The Company retains the discretion to add to or change the essential job functions of this position at any time.

You have these skills:

• Strong information security operations analytical skills, including those commonly handled by a Security Operations Center (SOC), including SOC Tier 2 and 3 level skills.
• Strong knowledge of network security protocols, tools, and technologies (BGP, TCP/IP layers, DNS, SMTP, SSL, etc.).
• Strong understanding of network and system architecture, including cloud-based environments (AWS).
• Experience and knowledge of network firewalls, network monitoring tools and other IDS/IPS.
• Experience with security incident response and handling techniques.
• Proficiency in using SIEM tools for log analysis and correlation.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management tools and processes.
• Technical knowledge in system and network security, authentication and security protocols, and application security.
• Strong understanding of web technologies - protocols, programming techniques, browsers, etc.
• Familiarity with common tools such as Splunk, Microsoft Defender, Rapid 7, Proofpoint, Office 365, PowerShell, and various network tools.
• Experience in distributed systems and cloud-based architecture including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and the native security tools available in these environments (Data Explorer, GuardDuty, Log Analytics, etc.).
• Demonstrated hand-on experience securing AWS environments using services such as Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM, CloudTrail, Config, WAF, and Firewall Manager, including monitoring, investigation, remediation, and security-control implementation.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux, Windows, SQL, macOS, shell scripting, and various other technologies.
• Strong security research and root cause analysis skills to identify and analyze potential security vulnerabilities.
• Superior professional written and verbal communication that includes the capability to translate highly technical material to communicate with business users or executives
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.
• Strong understanding of web vulnerabilities and weaknesses (cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, etc.)
• Strong problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to influence and work with many internal stakeholders.
• Customer service experience/Strong customer focus to analyze customer reported security issues.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with AI, generative AI, and other emerging technologies is preferred, with the ability to leverage these tools to enhance efficiency and decision-making.

And these qualifications:

• Minimum of 7+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, with 3+ years supporting incident response.
• Must be able to travel up to 20%.
• May be required to lift equipment weighing up to fifty (50) pounds.

Extra credit if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field is a plus.
• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or GIAC certifications are preferred.
• Certifications is a plus - GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), etc.

At Matson, we're looking for people to build a unified team to maintain our values of trust, integrity, and reliability. We welcome people who think rigorously and thoughtfully challenge assumptions.

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