Job Description :

Job Title: Security Engineer

Location: Direct client in Atlanta, GA 

Duration: 5 months contract -potential to extend

Visa Type: The candidate must be local or willing to commute or relocate. Any Visa.

Job Description

Our Client is seeking a high-performing and self-motivated Security engineer experienced in all aspects of cybersecurity. This Security Engineer would be responsible for IT security policy enforcement, compliance, reporting, security incident response, remediation and tracking, and security awareness training activities.

Have extensive knowledge of IT security standards, fully understand NIST Cybersecurity Framework and requirements for compliance. Planning and implementing security measures to protect computer systems, networks, and data. Experience in the latest threat intelligence, including hackers’ methodologies and zero-day attacks to anticipate security breaches. Able to effectively manage and prevent data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect a network.

Develop and monitor practices to ensure that the network information is secure from unauthorized access, protected from inappropriate alteration, physically secure, and available to authorized users in a timely fashion. The candidate must have expert-based experience in device risk management and network security experience for removing vulnerability.

Responsibilities:

  • Monitor day-to-day operations to ensure the performance of information security infrastructure
  • Responds to information system security incidents, including investigation of, countermeasures to, and recovery from computer-based attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches
  • Monitor security alerting for any anomalies and fine-tuning security alerts as necessary
  • Proactively perform threat hunting and security risk assessment within DOA network
  • Analyzing risks and treat intelligence, acting as the internal expert for threat detection and incident response
  • Monitor security tools for alerts and provide support within SLA guidelines
  • Taking the lead when attacks do occur and remediating the event.
  • Managing security processes, policies, tools, documentation, and day to day administration
  • Participate in security architecture and consulting with other IT teams and departments
  • Weekly systems patching throughout the DOA enterprise servers, workstations, and laptops
  • Develop methods and protocols to increase security posture
  • Participate in Cyber training to end-users
  • Providing weekly security vulnerability and remediation reports
  • The applicant must be able to manage multiple projects and/or task concurrently
  • Knowledge of all applicable laws, ordinances, policies, standards, and regulations of the specific duties and responsibilities of the job
  • Create security procedure documents, Incident reports, run books and playbook
  • Perform Business Impact Analysis and develop Incident Response plans, business continuity plans, and disaster recovery plans.
  • Required to work after hours and weekends when needed. Be on-call for scheduled after-hour emergencies and respond to after-hours emergencies as needed

Required Skills

  • Must have overall 5+ years of experience in the cyber security domain
  • Must have 3+ Years of hands-on experience with Qualys security suite of tools
  • Must have 3+ Years of experience with SecureWorks
  • Experience with Cisco Umbrella, Minerva Labs, and Windows Defender ATP
  • Understanding of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Cloud platform security solutions
  • Experience with Identify Management and Role-Based Access methods
  • Experience with Microsoft Intune and Azure Security Center
  • Expert knowledge in network and operating systems architecture
  • Strong experience in Cisco ASA and Paloalto Firewall in implementing IPS/IDS and network segmentation
  • Proficient in packet analysis, sniffer applications, and experience on tools such as Wireshark
  • Strong fundamentals on TCP/IP concepts, DNS, DHCP, LANs, WANs, WLAN, and
  • SNMP


Education / Certification:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Certifications like CISSP, GSEC, CEH, CRISC, CISM, etc. are a plus.


Preferred Skills
None

             

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