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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

ContangoHouston, Texas, United StatesOnsite

We are seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our dynamic cybersecurity team at Crescent Energy. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our organization's digital assets, infrastructure, and data from security threats and vulnerabilities. This is a hands-on technical role that requires a deep understanding of cybersecurity best practices, threat detection and mitigation, and a strong commitment to keeping our systems secure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:


  • Security Architecture:  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust security solutions, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data.
  • Vulnerability Management: Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration testing to identify and address security weaknesses.
  • Incident Response: Collaborate with team on incident response efforts, including investigating security incidents, coordinating with relevant stakeholders, and implementing remediation measures.
  • Security Awareness: Promote a culture of security awareness throughout the organization by conducting training sessions, creating awareness campaigns, and keeping the team updated on emerging threats.
  • Security Policies and Procedures: Assist with development and enforcement of security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.
  • Security Monitoring: Assist with implementing and managing security monitoring tools and systems to detect and respond to security incidents in real-time.
  • Security Research: Stay up to date with the latest security trends, SEC requirements, vulnerabilities, and technologies to continuously improve the organization's security posture.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with IT/OT teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to integrate security into the development and deployment processes.
  • Afterhours: After hours availability required as needed.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:


  • Experience with security technologies 
  • In-depth knowledge of network security, endpoint security, and cloud security.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
  •  Strong understanding of security compliance standards such as NIST, or CIS.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions under pressure.

Education and Experience:


  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH) is preferred.
  • Proven experience in a Senior Security Engineer or similar role with at least 8 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity.
  • Experience with security assessment tools, penetration testing, and vulnerability management.

Life at Contango

Contango Oil & Gas Company is an independent oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas, focused on the exploration, development, production and acquisition of natural gas and oil properties both onshore and offshore in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Contango?s onshore operations are concentrated in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region with over 400 producing wells located in the Woodbine formation in Southeast Texas, the Eagle Ford and Buda formations in South Texas, the Haynesville Shale, Mid-Bossier and James Lime Plays in East Texas, the Denver Julesburg Basin in Colorado, and in various conventional fields located primarily along the Texas Gulf Coast. Contango also owns approximately 24,000 undeveloped acres in the developing Tuscaloosa Marine Shale play in Louisiana and Mississippi. Contango?s offshore operations are concentrated in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and consist of 13 Company-operated wells and four production platforms.
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