We offer an excellent benefits package including

• A competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid-time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave

Pay Range: $83,550 - $133,680

Job duties and responsibilities:

As a Security Systems Engineer 2, you will become an expert in deploying various technologies to improve our customers' physical security posture. You should be able to quickly and thoroughly understand customers' needs and translate that into a system design, define systems adoption plans that can be deployed at scale for global systems.

Become an expert in one or more technology sets in Physical Security: Access Control, Video Management (CCTV) and Unified Systems, Intrusion Detection, Perimeter Detection Systems, Biometrics and Devices Detection Systems and more. Develop further expertise on vendor software and hardware products, establish and foster vendor relationships, collaborate and work closely with vendor product teams to provide product evaluation feedback and contribute to improving these solutions for our customers. Have an understanding of the IT environments needed to operate in and collaborate with network security teams to securely deploy the best solutions. Work with a team of Security Engineers and other cross-functional teams to share your knowledge and gain an even deeper understanding of how large enterprises are secured.

Here's what your typical project will look like:

• Identify candidate technologies and solutions based on customers' needs and requirements.
• Evaluate existing and new solutions against defined requirements and industry best practices.
• Design and sustain new security systems.
• Develop procedures to validate system configuration, data input and data migration. Ensure high data quality ingestion in new and existing systems. Develop test plans, deployment plans and administration procedures.
• Become an expert on the system and be able to communicate how the system enables the solution and identify limitations and improvements.
• Write high quality documentation for system standards and operations.
• Work with internal teams to assess and resolve all privacy, network security, and scalability concerns for the systems.
• Collaborate with installation, deployment, administration and other cross-functional teams to define standards, provide recommendations and guidance on solution deployments, resolve issues, and improve systems' features.
• Continually re-evaluate the systems to ensure they are still effective and actively assess how new technology developments or changes in the environment may require new solutions.
• Develop further expertise and become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on security engineering needs and requirements for system performance, installations, and sustainment programs and provide recommended improvements per industry best practices.

Specific position requirements are as follows:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 2-4 years of experience.
• Familiarity with programs such as: MS Office Suite, MS Sharepoint, AutoCad (or similar), Bluebeam
• The ability to work effectively in as fast-paced collaborative environment
• Effective communication
• Experience with Systems Engineering and Administration
• Hands on experience designing and deploying Physical Security Systems
• Application and System administration experience in performing triage on system problems, resolving system problems, analyzing system data to prevent problems, updating lab and evaluation environments, upgrade and migration plans to implement new and improved systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining engineering solutions
• Reliable attendance at customer site during work hours required by customer
• Self-motivated and driven
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Highly qualified candidates should demonstrate:

• Working knowledge and/or certification with electronic security systems and applications like CCURE (Software House), Genetec, Lenel, Milestone, HID, Axis, 2N, Geuterbruck and/or others. Candidate should have in-depth knowledge and understanding how these systems operate and be familiar with flaws and improvements.
• Working knowledge and/or certification with operating systems commonly used for ACS, VMVS, IDS, and systems (CCURE, Lenel, Genetec, Milestone, Axis). Familiarity with physical security designs, standard operating procedures, and security operations.
• Programming and scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, etc.) experience with systems integration tools and protocols (APIs, SOAP and REST, XML/JSON), database design and query development.
• Working knowledge and/or certification with communications and network protocols and services including TCP/IP, RS232, RS485, networking knowledge (TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP and others).
• Corresponding vendor certifications include Associate, Professional, or Expert level certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, etc. Experience deploying ESS or IOT devices on secure network environments is a plus.
• Understanding of IT systems, OS functionality and server infrastructure. Corresponding vendor certifications include Associate and Professional certifications from Microsoft, VMWare, and Unix (any version).

Abilities

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.