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Our client, a telecom company, is seeking a Security Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL Position Type: Contract Job Summary: The Security Operations team is responsible for operational management of all Security tools, executing the Security Incident Response process for any alerts or events found within their tools set or from additional sources as well as identifying and scoring risk related to the Enterprise. The role of the IS Security Operations Analyst I is to contribute to the efforts of safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the enterprise infrastructure and information assets across US Cellular. The scope of the position involves configuration updates of key enterprise security tools and initiatives. Job Responsibilities:- Proactively monitors and supports enterprise Security Tools with significant direction from Security Engineers.
- Support incident response activities and investigations.
- Actively protects the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of customer, employee, and business information.
- Provides vulnerability and threat management monitoring and mitigation response.
- Participates in tactical and operational planning of vulnerability assessment activities.
- Contributes to Enterprise security team effectiveness by accomplishing additional security related results as needed.
- Act in a supporting role in the execution of EIS projects and initiatives.
- Participates in operations and tactical planning.
- Minimum 1 year of relevant work experience required
- Understanding of IT operations: help desk, end-point management, and server management
- Ability to communicate: write clearly and speak authoritatively to different kinds of audiences (business leaders and techies)
- Change management skills
- Flexible and able to adapt to change with some direction
- General knowledge and understanding of UNIX / Linux operating systems.
- Familiarity with common UNIX and Windows utilities, diagnostic and monitoring tools.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good organizational and interpersonal skills
- Team player with collaboration skills
- Good high-level understanding of network protocols, LAN, WAN, SSL, Firewall, Load Balancer, and DMZ configurations.
- High-level understanding of Firewall and Switching technologies (Cisco Firepower 9K, Juniper SRX, Checkpoint, etc.) OSI Model, VPN, IDS/IPS, Proxy/Reverse Proxy, WAF, Two Factor Authentication, RADIUS, Netflow, Anti-SPAM
- Scripting experience with Perl, Python, PowerShell and/or Java is a plus