Job Details

ID #15829486
State California
City Santaana
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Infinity Consulting Solutions
Showed 2021-06-24
Date 2021-06-23
Deadline 2021-08-22
Category Security
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Security Engineer

California, Santaana, 92701 Santaana USA

Vacancy expired!

Job Description - Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

6 Month Contract to Hire

Remote PST Hours

$55/hr. to $60/hr.

Summary

The Security Engineer is responsible for providing operational security solutions that would enable the success of IT and business initiatives. Security Engineer interfaces with IT Groups across the company, client managers, business customers, third-parties, vendors, and auditors. The Security Engineer co-designs (along with Security Architect) and set operational security solutions that can be effectively delegated to Security Analysts or other support/operations functions. The scope of Security Engineers extends across technical and administrative controls that enable the protection and availability of business and IT systems.

Essential Functions
  • Leads technical direction in designing and implementing security solutions for corporate technical infrastructure and business applications.
  • Participates in all phases of project planning in security service support, including functional requirements, design specifications, testing and quality assurance, implementation and support.
  • Leads technical engineering services to support and update existing security systems and works to automate processes related to security implementations, monitoring, and enforcement.
  • Investigates, recommends, evaluates, deploys and integrates security tools and techniques to improve our ability to protect corporate assets and infrastructure.
  • Participates in technical risk assessments and security exposure analyses of systems, networks and business applications.
  • Evaluates and implements security devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, threat correlation tools, vulnerability management tools, encryption capabilities, etc.
  • Experience with Extra Hop, Dark Trace, Splunk.
  • Experienced with Network Detection Response (NDR).
  • Analyzes network elements and designs to ensure secure and optimal system and network performance and cost effectiveness.
  • Oversees the purchase, installation, and support of security devices.
  • Responsible for assessing and managing information security risks to pre-existing current systems.
  • Assists in the planning of large scale systems projects through vendor comparison and cost studies.
  • Monitors, reports and resolves all security related problems and discrepancies.
  • Participates as a member of the Information Security Incident Response Team.
  • Interacts with internal and external clients on security requirements, identifies security process and develops strategies/solutions to security issues while maintaining tight security discipline.
  • Develops test plan and implements rigorous testing prior to rollout of new systems into the production environment.
  • Leads Cyber Security incident investigations
  • Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.

Job Complexities & Impact
  • Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and established policies and procedures.
  • Troubleshoots and guides others on a wide variety of complex problems and identifies solutions within broad application and functional expertise.
  • May set objectives for project goals and other team members and monitors progress to achieve goals.
  • Devises or modifies department processes and procedures.
  • Negotiates, persuades and gains consensus from cross functional team(s).
  • Errors may cause system/application outages that affect a large number of users or possibly multiple applications.

Knowledge and Skills/Technology Used
  • Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required.
  • Experience in product evaluation and managing vendor relationships required.
  • Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks.
  • Must have hands on working knowledge of UNIX/AIX, Microsoft NT/2000, firewall multi-layer design and implementation, router access list/packet filtering (CISCO), WANs, LANs, the Internet, Intranets, network protocols and network services (i.e., telnet, ftp, etc.), Intrusion detection systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN), two factor authentication.

Typical Education
  • Generally requires a BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
  • Typical Range of Experience
  • Must have minimum 5 years information security experience.
  • Must have 5+ years hands on experience with networking, intrusion detection, VPN, PKI, Next-Generation firewalls, NAC; Identity management and encryption technologies.
  • License or Certification
  • CISSP, GIAC, CCNA, CCNP preferred
Our contract employees receive a competitive benefits package including:
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401K

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