Job description
Location: Atlanta, GA
Description:
This is a senior level IT position for someone who has demonstrable IT knowledge and significant experience. The primary role of the engineer is to translate business to technology and technology to business, and must, therefore, have strong communication as well as analytical skills. He or she must have a passion for learning about technology and business, a natural inclination to engage and take ownership of issues, and an ability to talk both business and technical. A successful Engineer will be able to take complex problems and break them down into smaller pieces, consider the big picture as well as the details, and take input from a multitude of directions to paint a broad picture.
The Security Systems Engineer is responsible for building and implementing leading edge systems, network and security technologies, participate in architectural design, to meet the specified operational needs and parameters, improving the existing network environment, and providing senior level operational support to administrators. The engineer will be responsible for researching solutions, designing and implementing configurations, and writing technical and operational maintenance documentation. The ideal candidate will be a blend of systems and security experience.
Job Functions:
Description:
This is a senior level IT position for someone who has demonstrable IT knowledge and significant experience. The primary role of the engineer is to translate business to technology and technology to business, and must, therefore, have strong communication as well as analytical skills. He or she must have a passion for learning about technology and business, a natural inclination to engage and take ownership of issues, and an ability to talk both business and technical. A successful Engineer will be able to take complex problems and break them down into smaller pieces, consider the big picture as well as the details, and take input from a multitude of directions to paint a broad picture.
The Security Systems Engineer is responsible for building and implementing leading edge systems, network and security technologies, participate in architectural design, to meet the specified operational needs and parameters, improving the existing network environment, and providing senior level operational support to administrators. The engineer will be responsible for researching solutions, designing and implementing configurations, and writing technical and operational maintenance documentation. The ideal candidate will be a blend of systems and security experience.
Job Functions:
- Identify, design, and implement security devices, including, but not limited to, firewalls, VPN, IPSEC, IPS/IDS, SIEM, DLP, and anti-malware/endpoint protection.
- Identify, design, and implement certificate management, identity management, authentication, authorization, and federation solutions.
- Identify, design, and implement policy and procedures, standards, configurations, settings, installation sequences and back-out instructions based on industry best practices.
- Identify, design, and implement new infrastructure technologies and methodologies to meet the future needs of the enterprise.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of all applications, systems, networks, etc.
- Identify and make improvements to the existing systems environment by analyzing system performance and optimizing existing strategies and technologies based on workloads, and by implementing leading edge features or methodologies.
- Act as senior level escalation to diagnose and resolve problems associated with systems & network software and hardware; determine the source of problems and classify their level, priority, and nature.
- Respond to security events both independently and as part of an Incident Management Team.
- Participate in hardware and software reviews and recommend purchases.
- Analyze and make recommendations for hardware and software standardization.
- Tests software and hardware to evaluate ease of use and compatibility with enterprise environment.
- Creates, documents, revises and maintains all security policies.
- Actively participates in security compliance efforts (e.g., HIPAA, SOX).
- Monitors security system logs (i.e. intrusion detection system, intrusion prevention system, firewall system logs, etc.) and reports on discovered anomalies or problems (i.e. insufficient disk space, inappropriate access patterns) on a weekly basis.
- Keeps fully abreast of trends and changing technologies as they relate to IT and Network Engineering and Information Security fields. Engages in continuous process improvement.
- Prepares and documents standard operating procedures and protocols
- Writes comprehensive reports including assessment-based findings, outcomes and propositions for further system security enhancement
- Provides rotational 24/7 after-hours support as needed.
- Ability to travel as needed within the US.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- 5+ years of Security and Systems experience in a directly related role; or Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 – 10 years of directly related experience.
- Network certification such as Network+ or CCNA is desired.
- Systems security certification such as CompTIA Security+, EC-Council NSA, or CISSP is desired.
- Proven work experience as a system security engineer and systems engineer.
- IT forensic investigations and incident handling.
- Experience working in a healthcare-related field beneficial.
- Advanced knowledge of network protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP(S), DNS, SMTP, SNMP, along with packet analysis.
- Knowledge of Security controls, Proxies, VPN, NAC
- Working knowledge of Cloud Architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and Security Solutions
- Experience in building and maintaining security systems
- Detailed technical knowledge of database and operating system security
- Hands on experience in security systems, network technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint detection and response, authentication systems, log management, vulnerability management, content filtering, etc
- Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
- Familiarity with web-related technologies (Web applications, Web Services, and of network/web-related protocols
- Problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with all levels of personnel both internally and externally, e.g. leadership, executives, clients, vendors, and agencies.
- Ability to work in and constructively contribute to teamwork environment and meet stringent deadlines.
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Attention to detail and follow through including the ability to document work.
- Ability to maintain the confidentiality of information is essential.
Physical Skills:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, talk or hear.
- The employee frequently is required to walk; sit; use hands and reach with hands and arms.
- Must have the manual dexterity to skillfully operate a computer keyboard and other standard office equipment, such as facsimile and telephone.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Corrected vision in normal range.
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