Cybersecurity Engineer II (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

In this role, the candidate will join the Company with 3-5 years of tangential or direct information security experience, with an IT background, and a strong passion for the cybersecurity field.  Responsibilities include engineering design, analysis, and support of security technologies focused on bot mitigation to help assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of digital assets in support of the athlete experience.  The role will support the business by working alongside other teammates to protect the Company, learning and using technologies to help detect and mitigate undesirable bot traffic.  In addition to strong technical skills, the candidate is expected to develop security technology documentation for both internal use and consumption by the larger Technology team

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and implements strategies to detect and mitigate undesirable bot traffic.  Monitors and analyzes bot activity to identify patterns and emerging threats.  Designs and maintains bot mitigation solutions.  Partners with product teams to provide guidance regarding the development and deployment of digital assets, focusing on the impact to bot mitigation measures. Continuously improving security toolsets and advancing their use.

• Assists in the review and update of cyber security policies, architectures and standards.  Assists in responding to audits, penetration tests and vulnerability assessments.

• Learning and taking ownership of Cybersecurity tools and processes

• Experience with WAF and bot mitigation is highly preferred

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, management information systems, cybersecurity, or equivalent experience

• 3-5 years of experience in web application security, network security, bot mitigation detection and prevention

• Security+ (preferred not required)

• CIH (preferred not required)

• Required: working knowledge of modern application architectures, bot characteristics, and emerging threats

• Required: understanding of bot mitigation techniques, such as the use of CAPTCHAs, and rate limiting

• Required: experience with web application firewalls (WAFs) and/or bot mitigation solutions

• Nice to have: contributions to the technology community

• Nice to have: experience behavioral analysis and/or AI/ML

• Nice to have: scripting capability in one or more languages (PowerShell, bash, Python, etc.)

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