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Information Security Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM OPT eligibility, letting you work for up to 36 months on your F-1 authorization if your employer is enrolled in E-Verify. A STEM degree in computer science, information assurance, or a related CIP-coded field unlocks the 24-month extension. Every employer on this page is verified to hire STEM OPT students.
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We are Omnissa!
Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from-anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost. Guided by our Core Values— Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value —we’re growing rapidly and committed to delivering meaningful impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of work, we’d love to hear from you.
At Omnissa, we are committed to maintaining a fair, consistent, and secure hiring process for all candidates. As part of this approach, we use standard interview and verification practices designed to ensure alignment and protect both candidates and the organization. These practices are applied thoughtfully and with respect for candidate privacy.
What is the opportunity?
The Threat Management organization at Omnissa is looking for an Information Security Analyst who is passionate about redefining, reimagining, and contributing towards building a robust and resilient information security posture. Information security is about harnessing the power of security expertise built on a solid foundation of threat analysis, risk management, compliance, and incident response.
What You’ll Do
- As an Information Security Analyst, you will be a subject matter expert in monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security event data from various sources, including host logs, network traffic, and threat intelligence feeds.
- Respond to critical security alerts and perform incident response activities from initial detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activities.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of detections and processes by developing new Threat Detections, Playbooks, and SOPs for responding to emerging threats and trends.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the effectiveness of security processes, alerting, and tools by identifying opportunities for tuning, automation, and streamlining workflows to enhance efficiency and reduce risk.
What You’ll Bring
- You should have a minimum of 2 years of work experience in the Security Monitoring and Incident Response space.
- Experience with SIEM systems, including configuration, tuning, optimization, and threat detection creation.
- Understanding of cloud security principles, including Azure security best practices and Microsoft Defender for Azure.
- Familiarity with endpoint detection and response tools, such as Crowdstrike Falcon.
- Experience with DLP solutions, including Trellix DLP, to identify and prevent sensitive data exfiltration.
- Knowledge of IAM principles and Microsoft Identity solutions to ensure secure authentication and authorization.
- Experience with SOAR tools to streamline security workflows and automate tasks. (Tines experience is preferred)
- Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Python or PowerShell, to automate security tasks and develop custom tools.
- Ability to analyze complex data sets and identify potential security threats.
- Experience using and leveraging AI capabilities to improve investigation and response workflows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders and provide insightful analysis.
- Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development in the field of cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of relevant compliance frameworks, such as HIPAA, SOC2, ISO, or PCI-DSS, to ensure security controls are aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Capacity to work effectively in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities and deadlines.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Location Type: Hybrid
Education
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
The typical base salary for this role is between $85,200.00 - $115,000 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.
Omnissa is an Equal Employment Opportunity company and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:
Omnissa is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Omnissa are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Omnissa will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Omnissa welcomes applicants of all ages. Omnissa will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
Job Description
We are Omnissa!
Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from-anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost. Guided by our Core Values— Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value —we’re growing rapidly and committed to delivering meaningful impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of work, we’d love to hear from you.
At Omnissa, we are committed to maintaining a fair, consistent, and secure hiring process for all candidates. As part of this approach, we use standard interview and verification practices designed to ensure alignment and protect both candidates and the organization. These practices are applied thoughtfully and with respect for candidate privacy.
What is the opportunity?
The Threat Management organization at Omnissa is looking for an Information Security Analyst who is passionate about redefining, reimagining, and contributing towards building a robust and resilient information security posture. Information security is about harnessing the power of security expertise built on a solid foundation of threat analysis, risk management, compliance, and incident response.
What You’ll Do
- As an Information Security Analyst, you will be a subject matter expert in monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security event data from various sources, including host logs, network traffic, and threat intelligence feeds.
- Respond to critical security alerts and perform incident response activities from initial detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activities.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of detections and processes by developing new Threat Detections, Playbooks, and SOPs for responding to emerging threats and trends.
- Continuously evaluate and improve the effectiveness of security processes, alerting, and tools by identifying opportunities for tuning, automation, and streamlining workflows to enhance efficiency and reduce risk.
What You’ll Bring
- You should have a minimum of 2 years of work experience in the Security Monitoring and Incident Response space.
- Experience with SIEM systems, including configuration, tuning, optimization, and threat detection creation.
- Understanding of cloud security principles, including Azure security best practices and Microsoft Defender for Azure.
- Familiarity with endpoint detection and response tools, such as Crowdstrike Falcon.
- Experience with DLP solutions, including Trellix DLP, to identify and prevent sensitive data exfiltration.
- Knowledge of IAM principles and Microsoft Identity solutions to ensure secure authentication and authorization.
- Experience with SOAR tools to streamline security workflows and automate tasks. (Tines experience is preferred)
- Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Python or PowerShell, to automate security tasks and develop custom tools.
- Ability to analyze complex data sets and identify potential security threats.
- Experience using and leveraging AI capabilities to improve investigation and response workflows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders and provide insightful analysis.
- Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development in the field of cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of relevant compliance frameworks, such as HIPAA, SOC2, ISO, or PCI-DSS, to ensure security controls are aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Capacity to work effectively in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities and deadlines.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Location Type: Hybrid
Education
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
The typical base salary for this role is between $85,200.00 - $115,000 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.
Omnissa is an Equal Employment Opportunity company and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:
Omnissa is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Omnissa are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Omnissa will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Omnissa welcomes applicants of all ages. Omnissa will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as an Information Security Engineer
Confirm your CIP code before applying
Pull up your transcript and cross-reference your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code against the DHS STEM OPT designated degree list. Computer science, cybersecurity, and information assurance CIP codes all qualify, but information systems codes sometimes don't.
Screen employers for E-Verify enrollment first
Before any application, look up the employer in the E-Verify employer search tool to confirm active enrollment. An employer that isn't enrolled cannot legally hire you on STEM OPT, and retroactive enrollment after your start date won't satisfy the requirement.
Draft your I-983 training plan before offer stage
Security engineers often cover multiple domains like penetration testing, incident response, and cloud security. Map each responsibility to a specific learning objective in your I-983 draft now so negotiations over job duties don't delay your DSO's signature later.
Search Migrate Mate to filter verified STEM OPT employers
Use Migrate Mate to browse Information Security Engineer roles at employers already confirmed to hire STEM OPT students. Filtering by E-Verify status at the search stage saves you from pursuing leads that will stall at the authorization check.
Target companies with active security clearance pipelines
Defense contractors and federal IT vendors frequently hire information security engineers and tend to maintain continuous E-Verify enrollment as a government contracting requirement. That institutional enrollment habit reduces the risk of a last-minute E-Verify gap on your start date.
Negotiate your start date around OPT cap-gap timing
If your initial OPT expires while an H-1B visa petition is pending, the cap-gap rule extends your work authorization through September 30. Confirm with your DSO that your Information Security Engineer offer letter start date falls within that protected window before signing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Information Security Engineer role qualify for STEM OPT?
Yes, if your underlying degree carries a qualifying CIP code. Degrees in computer science, cybersecurity, information assurance, and electrical engineering are on the DHS STEM designated degree list and support the 24-month STEM OPT extension. General information systems or business IT degrees may not qualify, so verify your specific CIP code with your DSO before accepting an offer.
What does the E-Verify requirement mean for my job search?
Every employer who hires you on STEM OPT must be enrolled in E-Verify for the specific site where you'll work. You can confirm enrollment through the E-Verify employer search tool before applying. If an employer is not enrolled, they cannot sponsor your STEM OPT extension regardless of how qualified you are. Use Migrate Mate to find Information Security Engineer roles at employers who already meet this requirement.
How does the I-983 training plan work for information security roles?
Your employer and DSO co-sign the I-983, which documents the formal training relationship between your security engineering duties and your STEM degree. You and your supervisor must complete a self-evaluation every six months and a full evaluation at the end of the training period. Information security roles with duties spread across multiple domains, such as cloud security, compliance, and incident response, require each area to be reflected in the I-983 learning objectives.
Can I switch employers mid-STEM OPT if I get a better security engineering offer?
Yes, but the transition requires your DSO to update your I-20 to reflect the new employer before your last day at the current job. The new employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify and willing to co-sign a revised I-983 training plan. There's no grace period between employers on STEM OPT, so the paperwork must be completed before your first day at the new company.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if an H-1B is filed on my behalf?
If your employer files an H-1B petition before your OPT expires and it's selected in the lottery, the cap-gap rule automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that year. You can keep working as an Information Security Engineer throughout that period without any interruption. USCIS issues a cap-gap extension automatically when the petition is timely filed, but confirm the status with your DSO so your I-20 reflects the extension correctly.