Lead Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

Lead Engineer, Infrastructure and Security

Lead Engineer will take the lead in resolving complex Security Tooling issues and managing escalations to the CCI team and vendors.

This position will then plan and work to remediate any misconfigurations to align with Stryker standards that protect while ensuring overall stability. To do this, they will work across multiple teams and functions to help determine issues and use multiple technology platforms to discover issues.  Individuals in this position have a broad understanding of key technologies, but a focus on our key toolsets and typically enterprise operating systems.

What you will do:

This position provides security support for IT and Security operations and serves to support infrastructure improvements.

• Provides leadership, vision, and a strong understanding of typical infrastructure platforms and an understanding of general security principles.
• Anticipates and recommends changes to processes and documentation that help meet organizational goals and exceed industry best practices and requirements to ensure the security of the Stryker assets. 
• Consolidate progress reports and present them in meaningful ways to demonstrate progress to Stryker leadership.
• Ability to adapt to ever-changing situations by finding more efficient methods to solve problems and train staff on best practices for deploying and managing security software and configurations.
• Helps to align security solutions with business strategies, working primarily with line management and IT Business Partners and ensure business security deliverables are aligned with Stryker’s global strategy and intervene when appropriate.
• Responsible for improving communications and relations, as well as ensuring the integration of security in technology programs and services across Stryker. 
• Drives adherence to security policies; security programs and plans; and integrates and coordinates execution of security policies. 
• Implements automation to improve process efficiency and the security tooling compliance state

What you will need:

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or or related field
• Minimum 7 to 10 years of IT Engineering/Operations experience
• Strong knowledge of common Datacenter operating systems (MSFT, RHEL)
• Hands on experience with Networking, Security Tooling and Troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel for Data Analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Linux Operating System
• Experience with Vendor Manager and Project Management
• ITIL Foundation and Comptia Security+ certification is a plus