IT Security Specialist - Remote

IT Security Specialist
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

Requirements

• 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