Summary
 

Performs daily monitoring and review of security events. Keeps up with the cyber threat landscape in order to rapidly identify potential threats and work with the senior staff to ensure that company’s security tools are properly tuned.

Description
 

Position Purpose:

Performs daily monitoring and review of security events. Keeps up with the cyber threat landscape in order to rapidly identify potential threats and work with the senior staff to ensure that company’s security tools are properly tuned.

What You'll Do:

• Performs daily monitoring and review of security events in a corporate setting. Performs investigations as needed and responses to potential incidents rapidly and accurately.

• Plans and performs security assessments such as penetration testing or vulnerability scanning. Anticipates and mitigates potential attacks through enterprise connections to ensure the security of the system (s). Exploits weaknesses detected in systems to assess and prevent potential break-ins. Analyzes business impact and exposure based on security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. Keeps up with the cyber threat landscape in order to rapidly identify potential threats. Ensures security tools are properly tuned to identify and contain cyber-attacks before they happen.

• Develops and implements enterprise information security architectures and solutions. Research, designs, and advocates new technologies, infrastructure, architectures, and security products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers, business partners, and vendors. Identifies, plans and implements security tools.

• Evaluates and recommends procedures and processes for the prevention, detection, containment and correction of information security breaches. Analyzes business impact and exposure based on security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. Advises management and users regarding security procedures.

• Monitors security agencies and services in order to keep apprised of current security threats and concerns. Evaluates products and/or procedures to enhance productivity and effectiveness of information security across the organization.

Work Environment: Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer.

To Qualify for This Position, You'll Need:

This position requires a clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship to obtain.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a job-related field

Degree Equivalency:

• Associates degree plus an extra 2 years job related work experience for a total of 8 years of required work experience (see "required work experience")

OR

• 10 total years required work experience

Required Work Experience:

• 6 years of job-related technical experience.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical, data gathering and problem-solving skills with experience analyzing network attacks.

• Understanding of system and network security, incident management, intrusion detection, log analysis, and related technologies.

• Creativity to recognize and address new threats and security challenges as they arise.

• Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, systems engineering and data communications as applied to the automated storage and retrieval of information, using multiple platforms and protocols with the inherent security risks of each.

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