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Herff Jones’ products include class rings and jewelry, caps and gowns, diplomas and announcements as well as motivation and recognition programs. Focused on building long-term relationships through a nationwide network of over 1,400 employees and sales partners, the professionals at Herff Jones have been helping elevate the student experience throughout the lifelong journey of education for more than 100 years. For more information about Herff Jones, please visit www.herffjones.com. \nPosition Summary: \nThe Herff Jones IT Team is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Information Security team. This role owns the security tooling stack and detection engineering: the person who makes the platforms work, tunes them, and turns threat intelligence and incident lessons into detections. The Cybersecurity Engineer delivers security projects from the architecture roadmap and, with the Cybersecurity Manager, is a primary responder for major incidents.\nKey Responsibilities: \nSecurity Tooling Ownership\nAdminister, configure, and tune the organization's security platforms, including endpoint and cloud protection, SIEM and managed detection and response (MDR), vulnerability and attack surface management, application security, and email security.\nMaintain tool health and coverage: onboarding, agent and sensor deployment, tooling maintenance, licensing use, integrations, and gap reports against the asset inventory.\nAssist with the technical relationship with vendors, including the managed detection and response (MDR) provider, and keep escalation paths and playbooks current.\nAutomate repetitive work to cut analyst toil and configuration drift.\nIncident Response & Detection Engineering\nAct as a lead incident responder during Priority 1–2 incidents.\nSupport the security analyst(s) and the MDR provider's SOC with tickets during volume surges; tune alerts and write response playbooks and automation for common alert types.\nMeasure detection quality: coverage by ATT&CK technique, false positive rate, and alert-to-incident ratio; run purple-team or atomic tests to validate rules.\nTurn post-incident findings into new detections within an agreed time of closing the incident.\nSecurity Projects\nServe as technical lead for security roadmap initiatives across areas such as data protection, identity and access hardening, network and IT/OT segmentation, cloud security posture, and controls for emerging technologies, including AI tools.\nWrite designs, build and test changes, and hand off operational runbooks; follow the Change Management Plan.\nSupport PCI DSS technical controls with evidence the GRC Analyst can assess independently.\nAdditional Responsibilities\nOther duties as assigned.\n\nQualifications & Skills: \n\nRequired\nHands-on production experience with enterprise XDR/EDR, identity and access management, and endpoint management platforms, and with SIEM/XDR query languages (e.g., KQL, SPL, or similar).\nScripting or automation skills (PowerShell or Python); comfort with APIs.\nPractical incident response experience and working knowledge of NIST SP 800-61 and MITRE ATT&CK.\nTechnical leadership and mentoring experience.\nPreferred\nIndustry security certifications such as CompTIA CySA+, GIAC (GCIH, GCIA), or vendor credentials including AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Cisco CCNP Security, CrowdStrike CCFR, Microsoft SC-200/SC-500, Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst, or equivalent.\nExperience with data loss prevention (DLP), vulnerability management programs, or application security tooling.\nFamiliarity with PCI DSS technical requirements and with OT or ICS environments.\nSoft Skills\nStrong problem-solving and analytical mindset.\nAbility to communicate complex technical and security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\nComposure and sound judgment under pressure during high-severity incidents.\nCollaborative and proactive attitude with a focus on continuous improvement.\nStrong organizational skills and attention to detail.\n\nEducation & Experience: \nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).\n5+ years in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering.\n\nPhysical Requirements & Work Environment:\nRemote position; work is performed primarily at a computer in a home-office setting with a reliable, secure internet connection.\nProlonged periods of sitting and computer use.\nMust be available for after-hours and weekend response during Priority 1–2 security incidents and scheduled maintenance windows.\nOccasional travel to Herff Jones facilities may be required.\n\nHerff Jones, Inc. and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers and maintain affirmative action plans to recruit, retain, develop, and promote qualified individuals without unlawful consideration of race, gender, gender identity, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. 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