Information Security Specialist

5 days ago

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States vTech Solution Full time
Job Details:

Job Title - Information Security Specialist

Job Location - Silver Spring, MD / Washington, DC

Job Duration - 12 Months with possibility of an extension

Work Module - Hybrid (3 days onsite at Silver spring, MD, 2 days remote)

Job Discription :

Primary Responsibilities:

The candidate will be a part dynamic team that supports Enterprise Scale Infrastructure security, assessment, reporting and remediation of threats in alignment with government standards and compliances such as FedRAMP.

Daily Duties:
  • Ensure infrastructure security engineering principles are applied in complete infrastructure management lifecycle. (NIST SP 800-160, NIST SP 800-53).
  • Analyze, Evaluate, and recommend standard security measures based on the gap assessment and industry best practices.
  • Use various tools and techniques to create cyber resilient infrastructure to cover patching, scanning, and upgrades for enterprise hardware, software, database, and applications.
  • Leverage various enterprise tools such as Tenable, McAfee EPO, SCCM, Bigfix to generate security compliance reports.
    • Manage and operate security engineering solutions such as IDS/IPS, EDR.
    • Establish and maintain security boundary/baseline for infrastructure systems and regularly report status for needed corrective actions.
    • Continuously monitor, detect, and remediate threats using log collection solution.
    • Develop, document, and maintain benchmarks/baselines for information systems and update as necessary.
    • Run periodic baselines scans and generate reporting for security vulnerabilities. Coordinate with System Engineering team for remediation.
    • Track and manage reported security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide remediation guidance.
    • Promote standard configuration management and change management practices across enterprise infrastructure.
    • Review and document standard operating procedure for security management, administration, and reporting.
    • Participate in evaluating new technologies as per FedRAMP guidelines.
    Qualifications:

    Public Trust Clearance is required.
    • Possess and maintain in good standings at least one of the following professional certifications: ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, GIAC Information Security Professional (GISP), ISC2 Certified Authorization Professional (CAP), Active certification number is required for validation.
    • Two (2) years' demonstrated experience with operating cybersecurity tools (e.g., Tenable Security Center, vulnerability scanners, database vulnerability scanners, and web application scanners, etc.)
    • Two (2) years' demonstrated experience with IT operations configuration management tools (e.g., Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Bigfix, etc.)
    • One (1) year demonstrated experience performing systems administration, network management, security systems operations, cloud security (e.g., firewalls, antivirus, IDS/IPS), configuration management standards and baselines, and change control technologies.
    • Demonstrated experience developing security procedures.
      • Demonstrated experience assisting in the maintenance of systems to protect data from unauthorized users.
      • Demonstrated experience identifying, reporting, and resolving security violations.
      • Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
      • Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
      • Performs a variety of complicated tasks.
      • Familiarity with presenting technical material to non-technical managers in a non- technical manner to ensure a clear understanding of how the risk(s) affects the mission and/or business functions.
      • Familiarity with NIST Special Publications and Federal Information Processing Standards.
      • Familiarity with integrating DHS Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation (CDM) new tools.

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