The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- Remote Opportunity - VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, TX, & CO
- Posted
- 5 days ago
The SouthState story is one of steady growth, deep community roots, and an unwavering commitment to helping our customers move forward. Since our beginnings in the 1930s to becoming a trusted financial partner across the South and beyond - we are known for combining personal relationships with forward-thinking solutions.
We are committed to helping our team members find their success while maintaining the integrity of our values: building trust, fostering lasting relationships and pursuing excellence. At SouthState, individual contributions are recognized, potential is cultivated and team members are inspired to achieve their greater purpose. Your future begins here!
SUMMARY/OBJECTIVES
The Cybersecurity Engineer (CSE) performs two core functions for the enterprise.
What you'd do
- Ensures compliance with all bank policies and procedures as well as state, federal, and regulatory requirements.
- Be fully aware of the enterprise’s security goals as established by its stated policies, procedures, and guidelines and to actively work towards upholding those goals.
- Review logs and reports of all in-place devices, whether they be under direct control (i.e. security tools) or not (i.e. workstations, servers, network devices, etc.) and interpret the implications of that activity to provide feedback to leadership.
- Participate in investigations into anomalous activity.
- Serve as a first responder and assist with initial investigations for potential security events or control impacts.
- Assist in the ticket queue rotation to ensure efficient handling of requests.
- Participate in the cybersecurity on-call rotation.
- Maintain operational configurations of all in-place security solutions as per the established baselines and security best practice.
- Participate in the design and execution of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and security audits.
- Provide on-call support for end users and all in-place security solutions.
What they want
- Education: Associate Degree (or equivalent work experience) from a regionally accredited institution in Information Security, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a closely related field.
- Two (2) or more years of direct Cybersecurity experience preferably as a cybersecurity engineer or similar role maintaining cybersecurity safeguards at a financial institution.
- Direct experience maintaining and operating current security platforms is preferred.
- Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Certifications (e.g., GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certification (GMON), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Security Operations Certified (GSOC), GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED), GIAC Certified Detection Analyst (GCDA))
- CompTIA Certifications (e.g., Security+, CySA+)
- A strong security mindset, understanding of financial sector regulatory requirements and security best practice.
- Other certificates and professional credentials with cybersecurity relevance will be considered.
- Starts
- 2026-09-29