System Administrator Patching & Vulnerability Management - Ampcus Incorporated
Holyoke, MA 01040
About the Job
System Administrator Patching & Vulnerability Management
Candidates provided must be pre-screened to ensure they fully meet the qualifications and experience level requirements.
Candidates provided must be pre-screened to ensure they fully meet the qualifications and experience level requirements.
- Five or more years working with and security Windows Server Operating Systems (2012R2, 2019, 2022), both physical and virtual systems.
- Progressive responsibility and in-depth knowledge of patching and health verification of Microsoft Exchange, Domain Controllers a plus.
- Experience creating, updating and working with Group Policy Objects (GPO) to further orchestrate patch behavior, including new functionality on modern platforms.
- Experience patching Windows Systems with both WSUS and Ansible.
- In-depth understanding and experience of planning, coordinating and executing Change Management operations for highly critical systems.
Primary Responsibilities
- Manage entire lifecycle of Vulnerability bulletins across multiple product platforms (Jira, Crowdstrike, Tenable, etc.), making adjustments to methodology as appropriate if outliers are discovered.
- Proactively evaluates and remediates risk related to vulnerability management compliance across a wide variety of technologies.
- Plan and execute appropriate Change Management artifacts for production systems.
- Interact daily with End-Users, System Administrators, Cyber and Systems Compliance Teams to ensure vulnerable devices are brought into and maintain compliance.
- Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, resolution steps taken) for root cause analysis, engineering technical assessment and process improvement initiatives.
- Leverage orchestration technologies available within Group Policy Objects (GPO), PowerShell, Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform, to further orchestrate patch operations, as well remediate additional vulnerabilities not natively possible via patch tools (e.g. WSUS).
- Remediate systems with Critical / Non-Critical vulnerabilities within prescribed timeframes.
- Performs system monitoring of accountable systems and contributes to optimum system availability.
- Develops and maintains current operational procedures and user documentation applicable to the supported systems.
- Responsible for maintaining a thorough knowledge of NERC CIP-007, CIP-010 Standards, as well as proactively addressing issues to avoid compliance risk.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or a related engineering/science discipline: Minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
- Eight or more years of relevant education, training and/or progressive experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years of experience requirements for this posting
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
Source : Ampcus Incorporated
