
Physical Security Engineer
Alpharetta, GAFull-time$105–175K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Physical Security Engineer provides specialized support for global physical security technology and its supporting infrastructure, including enterprise access control, video surveillance, cloud-based security platforms, and connectivity. The role administers and maintains security systems, monitors platform health, troubleshoots incidents, and supports equipment deployment and lifecycle management. Networking knowledge supports physical security operations, and the position includes domestic and international travel up to 25% and an on-call rotation.
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Alpharetta, GA
Full time
R119862
Are you passionate about maintaining and enhancing physical security technologies that help protect people, facilities, and operations around the world?
Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, collaborating across teams, and driving operational excellence in a dynamic global environment?
About the Business
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About our Team
Our team is dedicated to safeguarding employees, visitors, facilities, and critical business operations. We provide 24/7 security operations support through risk assessment, incident management, intelligence gathering, investigations, and security technology solutions while partnering across the organization to strengthen resilience and business continuity.
About the Role
A specialist in the field of Support Service who applies theory in practice with an in-depth understanding of a specific area and independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the role. Provides specialized support for global physical security technology and supporting infrastructure, including enterprise access control, video surveillance, cloud-based security platforms, and related connectivity. Networking knowledge serves as a supporting competency to physical security operations.
Responsibilities
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Administer and support enterprise physical security systems across global operations.
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Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot access control platforms, including Verkada, Avigilon, and Openpath.
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Manage camera systems, wired access control panels, surveillance devices, monitoring solutions, and associated infrastructure.
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Monitor security events and the operational health, availability, and performance of physical security platforms.
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Provide smart-hands support for servers, network equipment, access control systems, surveillance devices, PCs, and infrastructure management tools.
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Deploy hardware; perform rack-and-stack activities; and install, configure, commission, replace, upgrade, and refresh security and infrastructure equipment using standardized procedures.
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Perform firmware upgrades, software updates, security patching, and device lifecycle management for cameras, access control systems, servers, and supporting infrastructure.
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Investigate and resolve alerts, outages, connectivity loss, and performance degradation, and coordinate restoration efforts.
Requirements
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Experience managing and supporting enterprise physical security systems in a distributed environment.
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Knowledge of access control, video surveillance, monitoring platforms, and supporting infrastructure technologies.
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Ability to troubleshoot hardware, software, network connectivity, and platform-related issues.
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Experience with system deployment, hardware installation, configuration, commissioning, and lifecycle management activities.
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Ability to develop and deliver internal communication plans with guidance from senior leadership.
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Experience preparing complex documents, reports, operational procedures, technical documentation, and asset inventories.
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Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
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Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% and participate in an on-call support rotation.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $104,900 - $174,700. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,938 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$105–175K/yr
- Georgia median$107–182K/yr65 salary ranges
- US median$129–208K/yr3,211 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 3% below the Georgia median midpoint ($144K) — in the middle half of Security Engineer salary ranges in Georgia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 87 open Security Engineer jobs in Georgia and 3,938 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (3,405 postings).
- Education
- 1,532 of the 3,938 open Security Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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