IT Security Engineer Specialist

Who We Are

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To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

BCG is looking to provide innovative and effective ways to secure and protect our users' collaboration experiences. The security engineering chapter is tasked with partnering with our SaaS and Sustaining Engineering teams, as well as our Solution Architecture team, to ensure that we are executing the security policies of our organization effectively to provider BCG and client data. This role will currently cut across the various products of the Digital Collaboration product portfolio, though over time it may be able to specialize in several products as the team expands.

In partnership with your team members, your duties will include:

• Configuring our collaboration security suite, both within the M365 suite and with our non-Microsoft collaboration tools.
• Focusing on defense in depth and intelligent compliance by default in your configurations and activities.
• Assisting with the improvement of technical solutions for several defined (and potentially undefined) use cases
• Executing vulnerability management and event detection activities on existing BCG solutions as determined by our Enterprise Security Services team
• Partnering with our Secure Data squad to perform ongoing adjustments/tuning to our Data Loss Prevention products
• Identifying opportunities to automate and streamline our security response and policy configuration on an ongoing basis.
• Serve as an escalation point for issues that are high visibility and criticality. Partner with Local IT and external vendor partners for issues causing regional/global outages.
• Support other areas of BCG Digital Collaboration team as needed

YOU'RE GOOD AT

• Entrepreneurial and creative thinking to develop concepts and solutions to resolve the firm's most challenging collaboration needs
• Security and compliance mindset, combined with an ability to think around the corner and identify problems and patterns before most others can
• Strong comprehensive problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues quickly
• Working independently as well as part of a virtual, geographically dispersed team bringing a sense of urgency to the tasks at hand
• Effectively handling difficult and stressful situations with poise, tact, and patience, while demonstrating a sense of urgency and empathy
• Strong analytical skills, detail-oriented, and quality-minded
• Working in an agile environment and using Jira to create, manage, and track stories
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills

What You'll Bring

• Understanding of Security Controls Framework and Operational Excellence procedures and protocols
• Strong knowledge of the security and compliance product market
• Working knowledge of scripting tools like Powershell, PowerAutomate, and API consumption is preferred.
• Solid knowledge of digital collaboration tools such as the M365 suite, messaging tools such as Slack, whiteboarding software, and virtual conferencing applications.
• Experience within complex enterprise organizations with a multi-vendor ecosystem, showing the ability to make these disparate offerings co-exist, and being able to identify and solution for pain points and gaps
• Proven experience of solving complex problems by delivery of a simple and effective solution
• Understanding of security concepts and knowledge of how data flows through various collaboration tools so we can secure them both at rest and in transit across corporate and publicly-owned networks
• Level B2 English proficiency.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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