ArcSight Security Engineer

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Title:
Arc Sight Security Engineer

Duration: 6 months (Possibility to Hire)

Location:
Fort Knox, KY

Description:

• Assist the customer and required to provide technical leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
• The ideal candidate will have a wide range of technical knowledge in Arc Sight ESM, and be able to perform the functions of a Senior Analyst, Advanced Content Author, and Security Solutions Architect.
• Applicant should be able to provide a practical solutions-based approach for design and implementation of a complete enterprise SIEM deployment, and understand methodologies, terms, concepts, and best practices within the context of the HP Arc Sight product line.

• Assist in the Information Assurance Office activities to support with the installation, configuration, troubleshooting, customization and optimization of the Arc Sight product suite and its dependencies.
• This position requires strong knowledge in network security operations and familiarity with a variety of endpoint security products.
• The candidate will develop Arc Sight specific content including reports, filters, trends and dashboard content. The candidate must be experienced with Arc Sight in order to provide optimization, tuning, and flex agent development.
• Duties will include the ability to lead the installation, configuration, optimization and customization of Arc Sight software and appliances.
• Required to translate customer requirements into use cases, design and implement as Arc Sight content. The ability to perform system administration for Arc Sight components and create customized dashboards for Arc Sight ESM and Logger to elevate high threat items to incident responders.

• Expert level knowledge in defining an organization’s Arc Sight ESM Network Model
• Extensive experience implementing the Arc Sight suite of software and appliances in an Enterprise Environment
• Proficient in Unix scripting
• Ability to develop an Arc Sight training program to be used to train our Systems Administrators, Network Administrators, Security Engineers, and Security Analysts in the efficient use of the Arc Sight Suite
• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline is required.
• Significant experience may substitute for minimum educational requirements.
• Must possess at least 8 years of hands on technical experience with a minimum of 5 year of experience in Arc Sight ESM.
• Ability to Create Advanced ESM content for Security Use Cases in order to find, track and remediate security incidents, including:
  Using variables and correlation activities, Customizing report templates to use dynamic content and Customizing notification templates to send the appropriate notification based upon specific attributes of an event

• Arc Sight Certified Analyst (ACSA) and or Arc Sight Certified Integrator Administrator (ACIA)
• Familiarity with network defense technologies including IDS/IPS, Firewalls, VPN
• Determine appropriate Logger/ESM architecture to address specific log management requirements
• Integrate Logger/ESM in peering and hierarchical deployments
• Optimize Arc Sight Smart Connector configurations for a Logger/ESM integrated environment
• Identify types of criteria used to define system requirements
• Present a thorough compilation of the various architectures and the pros and cons of each
• Identify integration capabilities and best practices…