Vulnerability Assessment Security Engineer

Req ID: 304742 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Vulnerability Assessment Security Engineer to join our team in Rockville, Maryland (US-MD), United States (US).

NTT DATA is seeking a highly motivated, flexible, organized, and detail oriented Information Security Engineer - Vulnerability Assessment to join our dynamic team at Rockville, MD. If you want to learn, grow, and help then this is the job for you. We support a project/customer that "seeks to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic disease seeks fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.” What you do matters and has a significant impact on the medical and scientific communities we serve. Your work here really matters and has a real impact.

 

Responsibilities 
This role will be primarily responsible for performing assessments of systems and networks within the network environment to identify where those systems/networks deviate from acceptable configurations or policies, and for measuring the effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known/detected vulnerabilities as per the federal cybersecurity standards & guidelines.

* Analyze an organization's cyber defense policies and configurations and evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives.
* Support authorized penetration testing on enterprise network assets.
* Prepare reports that identify technical and procedural findings, and provide recommended remediation strategies/solutions;
* Perform vulnerability analysis; Measure the effectiveness of controls against known vulnerabilities.
* Work with stakeholders (system administrators and owners) to manage risks\vulnerabilities
* Perform technical (evaluation of technologies) and non-technical (evaluation of people and operations) impact\risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas (e.g., local computing environment, network and infrastructure, supporting infrastructure, and applications).
* Identify systemic security issues based on the analysis of vulnerability and configuration data
* Make recommendations regarding the selection of cost-effective security controls to mitigate risk (e.g., protection of information, systems, and processes).
* Ensure remediation plans are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments, audits, inspections, etc.; Provide clear updates to management on vulnerabilities; Investigate, document, and report on the status and emerging trends
* Maintain up-to-date vulnerability profiles, including respective detection and countermeasures
* Participate in industry task forces and working groups where appropriate to understand current and emerging vulnerabilities to stay up to date
 
Job Requirements
* Minimum 8 years’ experience in Information Security is required along with a minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in at least 4 of the following:

- Application of Risk management frameworks and processes
- Use of vulnerability management tools; AppScan, Tenable, Invicti, ForeScout and DbProtect preferred
- Creating\improving risk management policies, procedures, and operations
- Participating in cross-functional efforts for managing organization-wide risks
- Conducting Penetration Tests using Kali and\or CoreImpact
- Collecting, organizing, analyzing and reporting updates, alerts, advisories, and bulletins
- Use of industry-standards and widely accepted analysis principles and methods

 

Must know 
- Risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
- Cybersecurity principles, security models, organizational requirements (w.r.t. confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation), cyber threats, risks and vulnerabilities, cryptography and cryptographic key management concepts, host/network access control mechanisms (e.g., ACLs), network access, identity, & access management (e.g., PKIs), Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
- Ethical hacking principles, general attack stages; Specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses; programming language structures and logic.
- Basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques

 

Must be

- Able to communicate, verbally and in writing, complex technical issues with simplicity & clarity<