Security Engineer

Why should you join our team?

American AgCredit offers a unique opportunity to be a part of a national financial system supporting those who feed, clothe and fuel the world. We are a growing organization embracing collaboration and innovation while delivering transformative solutions. American AgCredit provides a cultivating environment where you truly make a difference for our customers and teams.
Benefits offered by American AgCredit :

- Commitment to agriculture and the communities we serve

- Family friendly work environment

- Investment in employee development

- Medical, Dental and Vision coverage

- Outstanding 401k – automatic 3% employer contribution, plus match up to 6%

- Generous Paid Time Off (Vacation accrued at 21 days annually, Sick Days accrued at 15 days annually, 12 paid holidays, plus 16 hours of volunteer time)

- Competitive Incentive Compensation Plan

- Disability & Life Insurance

- Employee mental, physical, and financial wellness programs

- The position is bonus eligible based on association and personal performance

Position will be posted until filled.

The Security Engineer is responsible for the operation, administration, optimization, and support of the Association's information security platforms and services. As a member of the Security Operations team, this role performs hands-on security engineering and operations activities designed to identify, investigate, respond to, and remediate cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and exposures.

This position has a primary focus on Vulnerability Management and is responsible for vulnerability assessment, exposure discovery, technical validation, risk-based prioritization, remediation coordination, and issue tracking through resolution. The Security Engineer works closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, endpoint, and other technology teams to ensure vulnerabilities and exposures are identified, understood, and addressed in accordance with established remediation timelines.

In addition to vulnerability management, this role supports security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, cloud and endpoint security, detection tuning, and security automation. The Security Engineer investigates security events, evaluates control gaps, improves technical controls, and maintains the platforms, integrations, automation, reporting, and processes necessary to protect Association systems and data.

Strong collaboration and communication skills are essential. This role works with technology teams, managed security service providers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to investigate security concerns, provide practical remediation guidance, reduce risk, and improve security operations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES

- Administer, optimize, and support enterprise security platforms used for vulnerability management, threat detection, endpoint security, cloud security, identity protection, email security, and related security operations.

- Perform and coordinate vulnerability management activities across endpoint, server, application, cloud, network, and internet-facing environments. Identify, validate, prioritize, and drive remediation of vulnerabilities and exposures using risk-based methodologies that consider exploitability, business impact, asset criticality, threat intelligence, and remediation objectives.

- Assess system configurations, security controls, and technology implementations to identify security weaknesses, potential attack paths, and control gaps. Provide technical guidance and remediation recommendations to support secure deployment and operation of Association technologies.

- Monitor security telemetry, threat intelligence, vulnerability disclosures, and attack activity to identify emerging threats. Conduct threat hunting activities and improve detection capabilities to increase security visibility and reduce organizational risk.

- Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents, suspicious activity, and security events. Collab