Security Engineer

6+ Month Contract

Location: Remote

Pay $59.50/hr W2

 

Job Description:

Provide advanced and/or cross-technology engineering through all phases of the Technology/Project Life Cycle. The Security Engineer is responsible for the overall systems infrastructure including engineering, implementation and integration, and technical services and support. The Security Engineer designs, implements/installs, maintains, and administers infrastructure systems including hardware, software, and various configurations. Monitors overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and tune appropriately. Performs root cause analysis on failed components and implements corrective measures. The Security Engineer mentors and coaches’ others to establish and improve processes and procedures.

A major focus of this contractor role is to own and resolve tickets that are assigned to the Security Solutions queue, managing & responding to the Phishing mailbox, and responding to end users and other IT groups as needed. This role will serve as the main focal point of all Tier 1 escalations from service desk or other IT groups to resolve tickets associated with the Security team’s tools. This also means working with other teams to remediate issues discovered by Security Solutions tools.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps
• Implement overall infrastructure/middleware components per project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps
• Design and successfully implement overall infrastructure/middleware components per project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution
• Ensure that post-production operational processes/deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase
• Define and create operational procedures, processes, and scripts
• Follow appropriate change/release management practices
• Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies.  Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required

Requirements:

• Experience operating/administrating any vendor of Antivirus tool sets (Trend Micro preferred, McAfee, etc.) and working with internal IT teams and internal teams to resolve these types of issues
• Ability to effectively respond to SIEM alerts and understanding  what to do next with the alert from a security experience
• Ability  to effectively analyzing Phishing emails and working with internal workers and IT teams to resolve  this type  of issues
• Understanding of how URL filtering works and ability to troubleshoot with network team on questions or problems that may arise

• Experience in support and/or engineering for the specific technical discipline: security, database, network, collaboration, desktop, storage, backup/recovery, mainframe platforms, UNIX platforms, AS/400 platforms, Windows platforms, web engineering, Citrix, directory services, and integration (EAI, batch, and real time solutions)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to customers and to all levels within the organization
• Proven ability to understand company business problems and identify probable technical solutions to those problems

Desired Skills:

• Scripting Skills using either Python or PowerShell or Bash
• Experience operating EDR solutions: CrowdStrike, Endgame, etc.
• Experience operating cloud security controls inside Azure

Category Code: JN008, JN055