Senior IT Security Operations Engineer from INSPYR Solutions
Silver Spring, MD 20910
About the Job
Senior IT Security Operations Engineer - Log Term Project - (Hybrid/Remote)
The Enterprise Technology & Operations team is building media technology and IT systems that meet the world class standard. ET&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering products while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable growing pay-TV, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.
Within our Information Security team, there has never been a busier or more urgent time to obtain the best talent we can for this critical function. In light of the constant threats and attacks occurring in companies across the globe, and across all industries, the Information Security Team is a growing group of cyber security professionals, using the latest tools and resources to protect the assets from our internal infrastructure to the shows we broadcast across the globe. From the US to Singapore, Poland, India to LA, we are tasked with protecting, training, and implementing the best of the best in tools, resources, monitoring, threat detection, and more.
Project
The Security Tools Engineer administers, monitors, and maintains security infrastructure, which includes but is not limited to application and container security tools, security orchestration solutions, security information and event monitoring (SIEM), Network Security Tools, system logging and analysis, endpoint security tools, and vulnerability management systems. The position also assists in implementing and maintaining corporate security standards, technologies, and programs.
The Security Operations Engineer plays a key role in the information security team, ensuring that security best practices are followed and that tools and processes that support a secure platform are maintained and kept up to date. Ideal candidates will have a mix of security and systems engineering backgrounds to ensure that business processes are configured correctly and that security best practices are designed and implemented. Candidates will also possess exemplary communication skills to articulate and disseminate security policy to the business.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
1) SPLUNK Admin cert. 2) AWS certs.
Title: Senior IT Security Operations Engineer
Location: Hybrid/Remote Option
Duration: Long Term Project - 6+ months
Compensation: $90-106/hr
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
The Enterprise Technology & Operations team is building media technology and IT systems that meet the world class standard. ET&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering products while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable growing pay-TV, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.
Within our Information Security team, there has never been a busier or more urgent time to obtain the best talent we can for this critical function. In light of the constant threats and attacks occurring in companies across the globe, and across all industries, the Information Security Team is a growing group of cyber security professionals, using the latest tools and resources to protect the assets from our internal infrastructure to the shows we broadcast across the globe. From the US to Singapore, Poland, India to LA, we are tasked with protecting, training, and implementing the best of the best in tools, resources, monitoring, threat detection, and more.
Project
The Security Tools Engineer administers, monitors, and maintains security infrastructure, which includes but is not limited to application and container security tools, security orchestration solutions, security information and event monitoring (SIEM), Network Security Tools, system logging and analysis, endpoint security tools, and vulnerability management systems. The position also assists in implementing and maintaining corporate security standards, technologies, and programs.
The Security Operations Engineer plays a key role in the information security team, ensuring that security best practices are followed and that tools and processes that support a secure platform are maintained and kept up to date. Ideal candidates will have a mix of security and systems engineering backgrounds to ensure that business processes are configured correctly and that security best practices are designed and implemented. Candidates will also possess exemplary communication skills to articulate and disseminate security policy to the business.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
- Build and maintain complex technical infrastructure that supports a secure platform that protects our data at rest and in transit.
- Work closely with Enterprise and business owners to identify endpoint coverage scope, strong analytical skills related to working with operating systems and security toolsets.
- Provide technical guidance on industry tools and best practices in the field of endpoint security.
- Monitor and maintain security tools that instrument security policies and capabilities.
- Provide expertise in the field of managing enterprise security systems, specifically the ability to determine the least business impactful way of implementing security tools and features.
- Improve efficiencies using automation and orchestration solutions to reduce manual work that can be done programmatically.
- Administration of system infrastructure that is hosted within a public/private/hybrid infrastructure.
- Remain current with new security trends, continuously assessing systems to ensure they are appropriately configured to defend the business.
- Experience in deploying and correlating threat intelligence and vulnerability management solutions.
- Provide expertise in day-to-day security operations such as onboarding/offboarding of security endpoint agents, user access management, systems' security and administration, configuration changes, system upgrades, ensuring 24x7 systems availability & DR, etc.
- Serve as a point of contact for incident response analysts, security operations center (SOC) analysts, application engineers and security management.
- Extensive experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) - EC2, ECS, Route53, SNS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Secrets Manager, RDS, etc..
- Extensive experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Chef and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Go
- Experience in administering SIEM solutions in an enterprise environment including configuring and customizing log data ingestion.
- Experience in managing a variety of security tools and technologies (SOAR, SIEM, etc.).
- Experience in configuring authentication and authorization concepts (RBAC, IAM).
- Extensive experience in Splunk and related SIEM and SOAR technologies (Cribl, Demisto).
- Experience integrating internal platforms with SaaS Solutions such as Tenable and Sentinel One.
- Experience building Docker containers.
- 10+ years of experience
- Skill: Extensive experience in Splunk and related SIEM and SOAR technologies - Application: Cribl, or Demisto
- Skill: Extensive experience with Cloud infrastructure - Application: (AWS preferred) - EC2, ECS, Route53, SNS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Secrets Manager, RDS, etc...
- Skill: Extensive experience with configuration management tools - Application: Such as Ansible or Chef and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Cyber-Security experience.
- Media or entertainment experience.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources.
1) SPLUNK Admin cert. 2) AWS certs.
Our benefits package includes: (EXCLUDE on perm placements)
· Comprehensive medical benefits
· Competitive pay
· 401(k) retirement plan
· …and much more!
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Salary
90 - 106 /hour