Job Description :
Cyber Security Administrator (Senior Analyst)
Downtown Manhattan NYC NY
3 to 6+ Months Contract to Hire
Mode of Interview Phone / Skype & Face to Face (may be 2 rounds)
Candidates have to be at clients for longer terms, 12 months+ from assignment to assignment
Local Candidates Only
Must Haves –
5+ year''s hands-on technical experience supporting secure infrastructures and support for security incidents
5+ year''s hands-on technical experience supporting large server infrastructures from hardware through virtualization and including applications
Must have experience installing and managing at least 1 SIEM tool (Ie. Splunk or something equivalent)
The Position
The Cyber Security Administrator (Senior Analyst) will be primarily responsible for hands on intervention and remediation of most of the firm''s security challenges for over 30+ locations and over 1,600 users. The ideal candidate must be able to address security challenges within the multiple layers of an application stack.
The candidate will be multi-disciplined and have hands-on technical expertise and successful experience in mitigating, resolving and eliminating security risks in server/virtual environments. The candidate will also need to demonstrate the ability to manage, maintain, install and configure server hardware, and virtual machines in a public or private cloud and infrastructure.
Qualifications
5+ year''s hands-on technical experience supporting secure infrastructures and support for security incidents
5+ year''s hands-on technical experience supporting large server infrastructures from hardware through virtualization and including applications
Must have experience installing and managing at least 1 SIEM tool in a production environment
Proven ability to manage projects to completion on time, on budget, and on specification
Qualified applicants should have current experience across a broad spectrum of data security disciplines. Including Microsoft networking solutions and infrastructure and intrusion detection and prevention
Strong hands-on experience managing and supporting Active Directory and Windows Operating Systems
Strong background with firewall products, intrusion detection systems, DMZ, IPSec, DNS, SMTP, HTTP proxies, etc.
Knowledge of security best practices across multiple platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, VMWare, and Cisco IOS
Bachelor''s degree from an accredited university in CS, IT, CIS, or a computer related field
Strong written, verbal communication and presentation capabilities
A demonstrated ability to lead
Desired: Experience with Financial Firms, Banks, and Insurance Companies a plus