Security / Systems Engineer

Introduction

Elegant solutions to sophisticated problems. That’s what you deliver. Surround yourself with the team, resources, and support you need to design and build world-class IT solutions.

Overview

Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Security Engineer in Seattle, WA. This is a full-time opportunity and offers outstanding benefits.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Scrum framework as a developer to continuously add value to the firm.

• Contribute to and maintain a custom scripts repository.

• Install, modify, and maintain servers, applications, databases, storage systems, networking infrastructure, and backup/recovery systems.

• Design, build, and support a hybrid IT environment, including but not limited to physical/virtual servers, storage, networking, applications, monitoring, security, and cloud services.

• Design, deploy, and administer LAN/WAN networks, including firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and wireless solutions.

• Participate as a 24/7 IT Incident Response Team member by responding to threats and security risks to the organization during office and after-hours as part of an on-call rotation. This includes collaborating with teams/individuals to formulate and apply remediation action.

• Monitor networks and systems for security events and alerts to potential/active threats, intrusions, and indicators of compromises; Analyze trends to determine the downstream impact.

• Maintain and audit all logs and records associated with operation procedures; Audit security logs, reports, daily system audits, security logs, and authentication features to ensure security-relevant actions are appropriately implemented and executed.

• Assist in after-action activity reviews; Identify findings associated with an incident; Engineer a plan to mitigate similar future incidents. Advise management on incidents and incident prevention.

• Provide security best practice guidance and expertise to project manager(s) to define requirements for applications, installations, and program architecture for information systems.

• Participate in the creation and implementation of cyber security policies, architectures, technical standards, technical controls, security solutions, guidelines, procedures, and other elements necessary to maintain security and compliance posture.

• Assist with certification compliance and audit process, providing recommendations for remedial actions when needed.

• Interact with threat management tools to identify critical/high-risk systems and create threat analysis reports; Initiate follow-up action, and help reduce identified risks as needed.

• Build automation to remediate vulnerabilities and eliminate response inefficiencies rapidly.

• Drive company-wide vulnerability remediation campaigns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering, or other related field or equivalent work experience.

• Ability to write PowerShell and construct WQL and SQL queries.

• In-depth knowledge of the OSI model as it pertains to troubleshooting and system architecture.

• Experience with Microsoft 365 technologies.

• Experience with VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V administration.

• Deep familiarity with Windows Server OS, Active Directory, and other Microsoft Windows Services.

• Minimum of 4 years of related cybersecurity experience, including two years of increasing responsibility in the core technical area or equivalent.

• Ability to travel, as required.

• CompTIA Security+, Network+, Cybersecurity Analyst, or other IT certifications are a plus.

• Experience working with Cloud technologies.

Min

USD $130,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $165,000.00/Yr.