Onsite Information Assurance & Junior Security Engineer

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wichita State University (WSU) in partnership with Textron Aviation in Wichita, KS, seeks a Cyber Security professional to implement secure networking solutions, monitor IT projects, and ensure least privilege access across networks.

The role requires installation and maintenance of firewalls, vulnerability management, and collaboration with corporate security and global teams to protect IT/OT environments.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One (1) year of experience in the Cyber Security Field and demonstrated experience with debug and with firewall configuration.

Responsibilities

• Setup, maintenance, and ongoing configuration of firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto and Cisco).
• Manages vulnerability and lifecycle for patching and firmware upgrades of supported devices
• Adheres to change control procedures
• Contributes to network security architecture and strategy
• Performs device discovery, identification, and inventory with CMDB
• Enforcement of least privilege network access
• Participation in network isolation and segmentation projects
• Provides troubleshooting and user support with traffic analysis and other efforts
• Management and support of incidents and outages.

Skills

Networking

Firewalls

Strong communication

Zero trust

IT/OT

Databases

Operating systems

Education

Postsecondary degree in related field

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Wireshark

Nmap

Traceroute

Splunk

Job description

Wichita State University (WSU) in partnership with Textron Aviation in Wichita, KS, seeks a Cyber Security professional to implement secure networking solutions, monitor IT projects, and ensure least privilege access across networks.

The role requires installation and maintenance of firewalls, vulnerability management, and collaboration with corporate security and global teams to protect IT/OT environments.