Software Engineer

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA’s family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 11 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-Information Security Engineer
The Information Security Engineer's focus is to develop and implement security solutions, which also includes current evaluation as well as keeping track of observance of the needed security guidelines all over the company computing environment. This role may help conduct network and software vulnerability assessments and testing by utilizing reverse engineering techniques. This job learns how to test the current state of the information security architecture and provides improvement recommendations by gathering key insights found from testing and analyzing the current systems and networks. This job also assists with evaluating system security configurations and performing root cause analysis to determine how to provide optimal IT security for the organization.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Providing operations and engineering support for critical security systems and services including servers, endpoint security, computer forensics, vulnerability/penetration assessment/mitigation, and security event management.
• Assists with executing vulnerability analysis and exploitation of applications, operating systems and networks.
• Designing security models, reviewing and approving security configuration and installation of firewall, VPN, routers, IDS scanning technologies, and servers.
• Works to identify intrusion or incident path or method through testing and evaluation procedures.
• Overseeing security awareness programs; educating and communicating to staff about information security polices, procedures, and practices.
• Helps design, develop and implement countermeasures, systems integration and tools specific to cyber and information operations.
• Monitoring industry security updates, technologies and best practices to improve security management.
• Learns how to resolve malware and intrusion issues within the system as they occur.
• Participating in the development of hardware/software/network security procedures and guidelines that support information security policies.
• Follows industry security updates, technologies and practices on a continual basis to improve overall security management.
• Helps serve as an internal information security consultant on the standards, complex issues and best practices for the organization.
• Contributes to the testing and analysis of complex software systems to determine both the functionality and intent of the systems.
• Assists with maintaining operational and configuration documentation and creates and maintains diagrams.
• Learns from and works with Cybersecurity Risk and Security Operation teams to enhance the overall security posture of the enterprise.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
6IC

Role will be based in Charlotte, NC

Required Skills:
HTML5
JavaScript
Developing large JavaScript applications targeting many browsers
Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts
Event-driven UI design
Strong object-oriented design skills
Relational database design and use (esp. SQL Server)
C#

Preferred Skills: 
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft application development in C#
GIT
ML
Exposure to LLM engineering

Start Date: 04-Aug-2025

End Date: 03-Aug-2026

Travel Required: No

Anticipated Posting End Date:

2025-08-07

Base Pay Range: $35.68/hr - $56.82/hr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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