IS Systems Specialist $132,496 – $165,609

Isc2 Eastbay Chapter; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Isc2 Eastbay Chapter seeks an IS Systems Specialist III to lead tasks in security system management. You will perform complex technical tasks related to the County’s security infrastructure, administration across multiple platforms including Palo Alto firewalls and endpoint protections.

Your role involves ensuring compliance with policies and best practices while supporting IAM/ARM platforms like SolarWinds and OKTA. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills and experience in security infrastructure integration.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in security system administration and configurations.
• Strong understanding of security policies and frameworks.
• Proven ability to analyze existing computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer security infrastructure including firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• Support IAM/ARM platforms and perform event investigations.
• Analyze system implementations for best practice integration.

Skills

Technical leadership

Firewalls (Palo Alto)

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Endpoint Protection Suite/XDR

Cloud Security services

Vulnerability identification

Education

Relevant technical certification

Tools

SolarWinds

Active Directory

OKTA

Job description

The County of San Mateo’s Information Services Department seeks an IS Systems Specialist III to serve in the Security Division. Under general supervision, the individual in this position performs the most complex and varied technical tasks related to the configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of the County’s security infrastructure. This position serves as a technical leader and technical subject matter expert in specific security area(s) and is called upon to analyze existing and future computing environments and ensure that all solutions comply with County policy, frameworks and industry accepted best practices.

As an integral part of the Security team, the IS System Specialist III will be responsible for system administration across a variety of platforms and services:

• Firewalls (Palo Alto)
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention (Palo Alto Threat Prevention and Wildfire)
• Endpoint Protection Suite/XDR
• Security Orchestration Platform (XSOAR)
• Cloud Security services
• XDR SIEM monitoring and management
• Vulnerability identification and mitigation/remediation

The position also requires support in ancillary systems that support IAM/ARM platforms such as SolarWinds, Active Directory, OKTA. Additionally, this position will perform intrusion event investigative and reporting activities as required. Similarly, incumbents in this class must regularly analyze requests for new system implementations and ensure that strategies are applied that support best practice security design and integration with existing security infrastructure. Furthermore, this position will be tasked with performing analysis and data production and reporting in support of any identified indicators of compromise, audit and policy compliance across the enterprise.