Security Systems Engineer

Nebraska  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Our direct client in Omaha, NE is hiring a Security Systems Engineer//C&E IT Application Support Specialist for a 6 month renewable contract.

This individual will assist project teams with technical planning, software installation and configuration, patching of software applications, and testing of changes to existing software or with installation of new software in a model production environment.

Additional activities include support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling out the solutions to the production environment.

This individual is accountable for the software to perform the following functions: Software log management and event reporting, hardware asset inventory automated detection and event reporting.

The individual may also be responsible for maintaining system backups and documentation, applying security and update patches to Windows operating systems and to various software packages that are in use in the production environment, testing and deploying a whilelisting based antivirus application to systems, removing software from Windows Servers and workstations, managing ports and services, creating automated tools for log management and to correlate event reporting with known vulnerabilities, configuring new systems based on a default configuration, and deploy and configure a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) log analytical tool, and configure log aggregation and event reporting to meet company defined reporting guidelines.

The C&E Applications Support Specialist (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of system hardware and software. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the applications. This individual ensures that software systems and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners.

Experience with configuration, troubleshooting, or support of vCM for windows machine administration, software inventory, windows patching, and event reporting (heavy use and configuration to accomplish the software inventory and software event information, and patching. (configuration, administration)

Required:
Experience with configuration, troubleshooting, or support of vCM for windows machine administration, software inventory, windows patching, and event reporting (heavy use and configuration to accomplish the software inventory and software event information, and patching. (configuration, administration)

Plusses:
Experience with installation, configuration, troubleshooting, or support of the following applications is preferred (the more the better).
Solarwinds LEM (for SIEM log aggregation, log management, and event reporting of all software applications active in the production environment)
Technical expertise in managing applications in a Windows Active Directory Domain with Standard hardware or VMware virtual hardware
CyberArk - demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting.
Maintain systems and the hosted services through continued monitoring, coordination of data backup, system troubleshooting and proactive security measures.
SCCM configuration for windows machine administration, software inventory, windows patching, and event reporting (heavy use and configuration to accomplish the software inventory and software event information, and patching. (configuration, administration)
BMC Discover (ADDM)
BMC Remedy, for asset management and change management
Heat lumension (whitelisting antivirus, installing, changing to learning mode, monitoring for blocked services, and placing in run mode)
Nexpose or Nessus for vulnerability scanning (configuration, report generation,
Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Windows applications
Server and client administration to include patching, hardening and performance tuning
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts is preferred

Demonstrated experience working on SCADA or industrial control systems is preferred.

Knowledge in cyber security and experience implementing CIS CSC Top 20, NIST 800 or other security control sets is preferred Familiarity with remote support and troubleshooting is preferred 
We will call qualified candidates after review.
Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval. 
REFERRALS WANTED - $1000 REWARD!
Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will give you $1000 if we find a job for that person!
(The fine print: The referred candidate must be previously unknown to us. Start date must be within 6 months of referral.)
Overtime: straight time
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 month contract, likely extensions
(extension possible)
From
Precision System Design, Inc.
Published at
05.07.2017
Project ID:
1374371
Contract type
Freelance
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