Job Description:
Short Description:
Information Assurance and Security Specialist Journeyman (IA & SS Jrny)
Complete Description:
The Network Engineer role is to develop and maintain the high-level design & low-level design plan for the overall logical and technical network architecture. This individual will provide technical solutions and consulting across the organization from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. The Network Engineer will gain organizational commitment for all network infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Duties:
As part of the Client technology team the Security Specialist (Infrastructure Group) will be maintaining and monitoring day to day operation of the Client IT infrastructure Security.
The IT Consultant will help and performs monitoring maintenance and security IT infrastructure (physical virtual and cloud).
IT consultant will perform OS security and application upgrades of servers and network to keep them up to date.
IT consultant will develop implements maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design development installation modification and documentation of assigned systems.
IT consultant will plan coordinates and monitors project activities for Client Infrastructure group and duties as assigned.
Log analysis of Firewall AD Switches and other deployed security products Knowledge of vulnerability assessment tools to identify and mitigate issues.
Research analyze and patch required systems to comply with Client compliance mandates.
Respond to escalation calls from the Help desk Desktop support and other teams to debug and resolve security and perform maintenance.
Understands security troubleshooting processes and cooperates with another team.
Assists Service Desk technicians as needed with Tier I and Tier II troubleshooting and patching of desktop systems software (MS Office Java Adobe) printer issues and server related issues as needed. Provides trouble-shooting assistance on production and non-production supported systems.
May recommend methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Initiates preventive maintenance for the technical system.
Responsibilities:
Determines enterprise information assurance and security standards.
Develops and implements information assurance/security standards and procedures.
Coordinates develops and evaluates security programs for an organization.
Recommends information assurance/security solutions to support customers requirements.
Identifies reports and resolves security violations.
Establishes and satisfies information assurance and security requirements based upon the analysis of user policy regulatory and resource demands.
Supports customers at the highest levels in the development and implementation of doctrine and policies.
Applies know-how to government and commercial common user systems as well as to dedicated special purpose systems requiring specialized security features and procedures.
Performs analysis design and development of security features for system architectures.
Analyzes and defines security requirements for computer systems which may include mainframes workstations and personal computers.
Designs develops engineers and implements solutions that meet security requirements.
Provides integration and implementation of the computer system security solution.
Analyzes general information assurance-related technical problems and provides basic engineering and technical support in solving these problems.
Performs vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems and applications during all phases of the system development life cycle.
Ensures that all information systems are functional and secure.
Qualifications:
6-10 years of experience developing maintaining and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements (Required)
6-10 years of experience performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems/apps (Required)
6-10 years of experience identifying reporting and resolving security violations (Required)
Patching Server 2008 / 2012 /2016 (Required)
Patching Desktop Windows 10 / 7 (Required)
Firewall management CISCO NGFW (Required)
Vulnerability assessment tools Nessus Tripwire (Desired)
VMware 5.5 / 6.0 (Required)
Production support (Required)
Server and Desktop troubleshooting (Required)
NIST 800-53 experience (Desired)
Splunk (Desired)
Cloud experience (MS Azure) (Desired)
Education
Bachelors Degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience (Required)
Security CISSP other security certifications (Preferred)
Skills:
6-10 years of experience developing maintaining and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements. Required
6-10 years of experience performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems/apps. Required
6-10 years of experience identifying reporting and resolving security violations. Required
Patching Server 2008 / 2012 /2016. Required
Patching Desktop Windows 10 / 7. Required
Firewall management CISCO NGFW. Required
VMware 5.5 / 6.0 Required
Production support. Required
Server and Desktop troubleshooting. Required
Bachelors Degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required
Security CISSP other security certifications. Desired
Flexible work from home options available.