IT Security Specialist 2

Remote • Posted 1 hour ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
1 Year
No Travel Required
Remote
Depends on Experience
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Job Details

Skills

  • Collections
  • Dashboard
  • Documentation
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Evaluation
  • IT Security
  • Incident Management
  • Management
  • Microsoft
  • Microsoft SCCM
  • Microsoft WSUS
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Network
  • Network Security
  • Patch Management
  • Qualys
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Reporting
  • Risk Assessment
  • Servers
  • Testing
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Scanning

Summary

Job Description

  • Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of DRC data, systems, and networks
  • Responding to all system and/or network security breaches
  • Design and maintain enterprise SCCM/MECM patching strategies for Windows endpoints and supported server environments.
  • Create and manage SCCM device collections, deployment groups, maintenance windows, software update groups, and deployment schedules.
  • Coordinate vulnerability information from Qualys with SCCM patching data to identify vulnerable systems requiring remediation.
  • Perform vulnerability-first remediation by identifying affected assets and determining the appropriate patch, configuration change, software upgrade, or compensating control.
  • Analyze patch compliance, deployment status, failed installations, pending reboots, missing updates, and non-reporting devices.
  • Manage Software Update Points (SUP), WSUS synchronization, software update groups, deployment packages, and Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs).
  • Troubleshoot SCCM client installation, client health, policy retrieval, software update scanning, deployment evaluation, and content download failures.
  • Develop procedures for emergency patch deployment when critical or actively exploited vulnerabilities require accelerated remediation.
  • Package and deploy third-party application updates and security fixes where Microsoft updates do not provide remediation.
  • Create and maintain SCCM operational runbooks, patching procedures, troubleshooting guides, deployment standards, and rollback procedures.
  • Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities
  • Evaluating the organization’s security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly
  • Taking appropriate security measures to ensure that DRC’s infrastructure and existing data are kept safe
  • Perform scheduled and ad-hoc vulnerability scans across networks, servers and endpoints.
  • Work with server, endpoint, security, network, and application teams to resolve cross-platform remediation dependencies.
  • Tune scans and reduce false positives to improve data accuracy
  • Develop vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reports
  • Conducting testing and scans to identify any vulnerabilities in the network and system
Required / Desired Skill
  • Network Security and threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management  - Required 10 Years
  • Hands-on experience administering Qualys, remediation documentation and patch management processes - Required 10 Years
  • Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration. - Required 10 Years
  • Experience with Vulnerability scan reports and remediation tracking, risk assessment and compliance documentation - Highly desired
 
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  • Dice Id: 10460158
  • Position Id: 9053535
  • Posted 1 hour ago
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