SECURITY CONSULTANT - Tampa, FL - Georgia IT Inc.
Tampa, FL
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Title : SECURITY CONSULTANT
Location : Tampa, FL
Duration : Contract
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Location : Tampa, FL
Duration : Contract
No Visa Sponsorship available for this job. No third-party agencies Corp To Corp
Job description:
- Assist in the maturation and management of the Threat and Vulnerability Management program.
- Scan systems for known vulnerabilities and provide support in the remediation of any vulnerabilities found.
- Identifies areas of security risk, determines risk level and assists with efforts to mitigate those risks to an acceptable level.
- Measure and report on security posture through the ongoing development and refinement of security metrics.
- Performs issue and problem resolution and general security operations support.
- Assists with security-related investigations and incident response activities and provides system forensics and investigative services.
- Provide periodic "on-call” support of security operations during non-business hours.
- Review change requests from a security perspective, understand and determine associated risk levels and make recommendations for approval or denial based on the risk presented.
- Ability to understand, prioritize and complete tasks by working independently or with a team.
- Review, recommend and assist in implementing proper security diagnostic and access tools to enable the analysis, reporting and escalation of security events.
- Act as a point of contact for execution for vulnerability testing of networks, systems and applications as requested.
- Assist in the growth and development of the incident response team to act quickly and accurately during emergency situations.
- Participate in the development, and delivery of an information security awareness program.
- Approaches all problems, projects, and incidents with a high level of professionalism, objectivity and an open mind to new ideas and solutions.
- Analyzes and identifies areas where automation can be used in the deployment of new technology to support effective resource management.
- Maintain knowledge of vendor products, services and security technologies and recommend/implement their use.
- Special projects and additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Current SANS and/or other security certifications
- A minimum of 4 experience supporting security related technology in a diverse technology environment.
- Experience with a System Information and Event Management (SIEM) or other scalable log management solution, including the configuration and tuning of the system.
- Experience with vulnerability scanning and reporting (e.g., Nessus, SAINT, Qualys, etc.).
- Experience in monitoring and administrating various technical security controls such as firewalls, web filters and anti-virus solutions.
- Experience with network security assessment and vulnerability management tools (e.g., Nessus, Qualys, Rapid 7, etc.)
- Operating Systems: Windows Server, Active Directory, Linux, Windows 7-10
- Network Technologies: Cisco LAN/WAN, VPN, DNS, DHCP
- Security Infrastructure Applications: anti-virus suites, automated systems management (SCCM), vulnerability management tools, password management tools, email server security.
- Software: office productivity software, popular browsers, security related software analysis and protection, other business applications (accounting, practice management, CRM, etc.)
Source : Georgia IT Inc.