IT Security Consultant

Cognizant; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Consultant Security Systems Engineer to join a leading security systems team. You will design, implement, and support IBM Datapower and IBM Verify Identity Access, MFA, and related toolsets to strengthen the enterprise security posture.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to implement security policies, monitor environments, and automate security processes while maintaining compliance and high availability across the IT infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in an enterprise IT environment.
• 3-5 years in monitoring, developing and implementing information security systems.
• Experience with IBM Datapower and/or IBM Verify Identity Access and MFA.
• Strong Unix Bash scripting experience.
• Familiar with IP/Network/Cloud infrastructure components.
• Experience with authentication, IAM, LDAP, SSO.

Responsibilities

• Platform engineering for supported platforms.
• Define design requirements.
• Oversee day-to-day operational support.
• Integrate tools with other platforms.
• Adopt tools deeper into the enterprise.
• Help define standards, guidelines, leading practices, metrics and continuous validation of system and capabilities.
• Troubleshoot complex problems related to processes, infrastructure, & web security.
• Learn and implement new security products as needed.
• Develop pioneering approaches to emerging Information Security industry trends and assist with automation of the environment.

Skills

IT security

IBM Datapower

IBM Verify ID

MFA

Unix Bash

Identity access

LDAP

SSL/TLS

ServiceNow

Unix

Windows

VMware

Cloud infra

InfoSec principles

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Unix

VMware

LDAP utilities

Job description

The Consultant Security Systems Engineer will be part of a leading edge, security systems team transforming a modern-day enterprise infrastructure to an agile, agnostic, and highly trusted computing platform. Our team leverages highly technical assurance platforms to create a trusted capability that will allow us to take advantage of the lowest cost IaaS offering as well as enable the corporate IT environment to increase the security posture of the corporation. This position will be responsible for the design, implementation and support of the IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Datapower, as well as any other existing security toolsets necessary to protect the financial future of our customers.

The highest level technical resource for dealing with the most important, complex, or risky situations related to the implementation, communication, monitoring, and maintenance of policies and procedures to protect technology information, environments and systems.

Knowledge & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or number of years of experience as alternate.
• 5+ years of experience with an enterprise level IT environment
• 3-5 years of experience in monitoring, developing and implementation of information security systems
• Prior experience working with IBM Datapower and/or IBM Verify Identity Access and MFA implementations
• Experience in the consultative approach and support the cross organizational implementation of IT services
• Strong Unix Bash shell scripting experience
• Leverage a wide range of security technologies including, but not limited to: logical access controls, identity and access management , LDAP, security, incident response, privileged access management, database and system monitoring, end user password, management and single sign on systems
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot encryption(SSL/TLS), web traffic, and packet analysis.
• Experience effectively working directly with clients, team members, technical experts, professional staff, and management as needed to provide operational support
• Experience planning and executing software and/or infrastructure upgrades with minimal service disruption
• Experiencing using ServiceNow preferred
• Unix/Windows/VMWare hands on experience
• Familiarity with IP/Network/Cloud infrastructure components
• Information Security Principles & Technologies
• Disciplined in documentation maintenance
• Java scripting experience is a bonus

Key Responsibilities

• Platform engineering responsibilities for supported platforms including:
• Design requirements
• Configuration to enable value to the enterprise
• Oversite of day-to-day operational support responsibilities
• Integration of the technical tools with other technical platforms
• Adoption of the technical tools deeper into the enterprise
• Assisting in defining of standards, guidelines, leading practices, metrics and continuous validation of system and capabilities
• Troubleshooting unique and complex problems related to processes, infrastructure, & web security
• Expected to learn and implement new security products as needed
• Develop pioneering approaches to emerging Information Security industry trends and assist with automation of the environment.