Security Administrator

The Security Administrator will maintain the integrity of the operating system environment; monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain systems; analyze exception-based events and will install, configure, and maintain technical security systems to support business processing requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Provide Level 2 and 3 technical support as part of the security incident response program

- Install and troubleshoot systems and security devices to ensure functional objectives of the business are met.

- Implement and maintain system management software, as well as research, analyze, and implement software patches and hardware modifications to resolve deficiencies.

- Perform capacity and resource planning by assessing risks and developing contingency plan.

- Maintain production change control schedule and, when needed, assist in the change control..

- Support and schedule operating systems installations and upgrades, as well as layered software packages, in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.

- Assist with the configuration and maintenance of physical and logical components.

- Monitor, analyze, and tune the technical system to achieve optimal performance levels.

- Ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.

- Develop and maintain a comprehensive technical system configuration and database library of all supporting documentation.

- Schedules, installs, upgrade and maintain operating systems and software.

- Assists development team with modeling, physical design and application tuning.

- Assists in the recommendation of strategies for data center and infrastructure management from business continuity, disaster recovery, monitoring, storage, security.

- Routinely audits hardware and software to ensure compliance with established security standards, policies, procedures, and configuration guidelines.

- Implements and use backup and restore techniques.

- Mentors less experienced administrators on an ongoing and often formal basis.

- Monitor, lead and facilitate IT security events and/or incidents.

- Participate in projects as a security subject matter expert (SME).

- Rotating on call support.

Qualifications:

Prior experience, typically gained with 4 to 7 years, supporting IT operations or IT Security operations.

Experience typically gained with 2 to 5 years performing operations roles with security technologies (at least two of the following):

- Network Security Platform (IPS).

- SIEM.

- Vulnerability scanning and remediation tracking Position Requirements:
Clearance, etc..

- Security clearance required (secret), client will sponsor for Top Secret .

Desired Certifications:

CISSP or equivalent experience.

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) or equivalent experience