Cybersecurity Specialist – Journeyman

AHU Technologies Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AHU Technologies Inc is looking for an Information Assurance and Security Specialist to maintain and monitor IT infrastructure security. The role involves developing security solutions, analyzing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with standards.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent experience, along with key technical skills like Cisco Firewall management and Windows patching. Flexible work from home options are available.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience developing, maintaining, and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements.
• Experience performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems/apps.
• Experience identifying, reporting, and resolving security violations.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements information assurance/security standards and procedures.
• Coordinates, develops, and evaluates security programs for an organization.
• Identifies, reports, and resolves security violations.

Skills

Firewall management CISCO NGFW

Patching Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016

Patching Desktop Windows 10 / 7

Server and Desktop troubleshooting

Production support

Vulnerability assessment tools Nessus, Tripwire

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field

Security+, CISSP, other security certifications

Tools

VMware 5.5 / 6.0

Splunk

Cloud experience (MS Azure)

Splunk

Job description

Job Description

Information Assurance and Security Specialist – Journeyman (IA & SS – Jrny)

Complete Description

The Network Engineer role is to develop and maintain the high-level design & low-level design plan for the overall logical and technical network architecture. This individual will provide technical solutions and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision-making down to the project planning level. The Network Engineer will gain organizational commitment for all network infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.

Duties

• As part of the Client technology team, the Security Specialist (Infrastructure Group) will be maintaining and monitoring day to day operation of the Client IT infrastructure – Security.
• The IT Consultant will help and performs, monitoring, maintenance, and security IT infrastructure (physical, virtual and cloud).
• IT consultant will perform OS, security and application upgrades of servers and network to keep them up to date.
• IT consultant will develop, implements, maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems.
• IT consultant will plan, coordinates, and monitors project activities for Client Infrastructure group and duties as assigned.
• Log analysis of Firewall, AD, Switches and other deployed security products Knowledge of vulnerability assessment tools to identify and mitigate issues.
• Research, analyze, and patch required systems to comply with Client compliance mandates.
• Respond to escalation calls from the Help desk, Desktop support, and other teams to debug and resolve security and perform maintenance.
• Understands security troubleshooting processes and cooperates with another team.
• Assists Service Desk technicians as needed with Tier I and Tier II troubleshooting and patching of desktop systems, software (MS Office, Java, Adobe), printer issues, and server related issues as needed. Provides troubleshooting assistance on production and non-production supported systems.
• May recommend methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Initiates preventive maintenance for the technical system.

Responsibilities

• Determines enterprise information assurance and security standards.
• Develops and implements information assurance/security standards and procedures.
• Coordinates, develops, and evaluates security programs for an organization.
• Recommends information assurance/security solutions to support customers’ requirements.
• Identifies, reports, and resolves security violations.
• Establishes and satisfies information assurance and security requirements based upon the analysis of user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands.
• Supports customers at the highest levels in the development and implementation of doctrine and policies.
• Applies know-how to government and commercial common user systems, as well as to dedicated special purpose systems requiring specialized security features and procedures.
• Performs analysis, design, and development of security features for system architectures.
• Analyzes and defines security requirements for computer systems which may include mainframes, workstations, and personal computers.
• Designs, develops, engineers, and implements solutions that meet security requirements.
• Provides integration and implementation of the computer system security solution.
• Analyzes general information assurance‑related technical problems and provides basic engineering and technical support in solving these problems.
• Performs vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems and applications during all phases of the system development life cycle.
• Ensures that all information systems are functional and secure.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience developing, maintaining, and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements (Required)
• 6-10 years of experience performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems/apps (Required)
• 6-10 years of experience identifying, reporting, and resolving security violations (Required)
• Patching Server 2008 / 2012 /2016 (Required)
• Patching Desktop Windows 10 / 7 (Required)
• Firewall management CISCO NGFW (Required)
• Vulnerability assessment tools Nessus, Tripwire (Desired)
• VMware 5.5 / 6.0 (Required)
• Production support (Required)
• Server and Desktop troubleshooting (Required)
• NIST 800-53 experience (Desired)
• Splunk (Desired)
• Cloud experience (MS Azure) (Desired)

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience (Required)
• Security+, CISSP, other security certifications (Preferred)

Flexible work from home options available.