Warner Bros. Discovery is hiring: Cybersecurity Engineer in Washington

Your New Role

The WBD Security Engineering team empowers the Global Information and Content Security (GICS) teams by supporting the Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Threat Detection and Response, and other Security teams through the deployment, management, and maintenance of shared, reliable, and extensible security platforms/systems. The Cybersecurity engineer plays a key role on the GICS security engineering team, ensuring that security best practices are followed and that tools and processes that support a secure platform are maintained and kept current. Ideal candidates will have a mixture of security and systems engineering backgrounds to ensure that business processes are configured correctly and that security best practices are designed and implemented.

Must work a hybrid model (3 days onsite) out of our Silver Spring, DC, or Atlanta office.

Ideal Cybersecurity candidate is expected to:

• Implement design reviews to evaluate security controls.
• Identify and communicate opportunities to enhance the security posture of WBD.
• Build and/or manage enterprise security platforms effectively.
• Communicate effectively across all levels of management to articulate WBD security goals and vision.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• Plan, design, engineer and implement security-related technologies.
• Understand technical security issues, their implications within WBD business units and communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain security infrastructure – including software and hardware in cloud environments, as well as on-premises.
• Conduct security audits and assessments to regularly determine the effectiveness of security platforms and identify areas of improvement.
• Host and operating systems hardening, auditing, monitoring and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals.
• Research and explore emerging security technologies and determine their appropriate use within the company.
• Prepare, document, and create standard operating procedures and protocols. Cross‑train and mentor other team members as needed.

Qualifications & Experiences:

• A minimum of 5+ years of hands‑on experience in building, designing, and maintaining enterprise security tools.
• A minimum of 5+ years of hands‑on experience in security engineering.
• 5+ years of successfully implementing advanced cyber security technology in a complex environment.
• Engineer and administer security platforms including SIEM/SOAR systems, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, anomaly detection, and cloud analysis.
• Hands‑on technical experience with networking and computing system architectures, specifically the security aspects thereof.
• Experience in managing the Brinqa vulnerability management platform and experience with Groovy programming language.
• Must have 5+ scripting experience (using Python or other equivalent languages).
• Thorough understanding of information security principles, techniques, principles, policy frameworks, and best practices.
• Hands‑on experience in public cloud infrastructures like AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• A minimum of 3+ hands‑on experience with automation technologies (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, etc.).

Not Required but preferred experience

• Security and Cloud certifications are a plus. (CISSP, Splunk Admin, AWS Solution architect)
• Hands‑on technical experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and review.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

Pay Range

Base salary: $91,000.00 – $169,000.00 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Entertainment Providers