SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR

Target Labs, Inc; Boca Raton (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Security Administrator to uphold the integrity of the operating system environment and support the business through various technical security initiatives. The ideal candidate will engage in capacity planning, compliance audits, and mentoring, contributing significantly to IT security processes. Certifications like CISSP are highly desired.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years supporting IT operations or IT Security operations.
• 2 to 5 years performing operations roles with security technologies.
• Security clearance required (secret), client will sponsor for Top Secret.

Responsibilities

• Provide Level 2 and 3 technical support as part of the security incident response program.
• Monitor, analyze, and tune the technical system to achieve optimal performance levels.
• Mentors less experienced administrators on an ongoing basis.

Skills

Network Security

Incident Response

System Management

Performance Tuning

Education

CISSP

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)

Tools

SIEM

Vulnerability Scanning

Job description

The Security Administrator will maintain the integrity of the operating system environment; monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain systems; analyze exception-based events and will install, configure, and maintain technical security systems to support business processing requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Provide Level 2 and 3 technical support as part of the security incident response program

- Install and troubleshoot systems and security devices to ensure functional objectives of the business are met.

- Implement and maintain system management software, as well as research, analyze, and implement software patches and hardware modifications to resolve deficiencies.

- Perform capacity and resource planning by assessing risks and developing contingency plan.

- Maintain production change control schedule and, when needed, assist in the change control..

- Support and schedule operating systems installations and upgrades, as well as layered software packages, in accordance with established IT policies and procedures.

- Assist with the configuration and maintenance of physical and logical components.

- Monitor, analyze, and tune the technical system to achieve optimal performance levels.

- Ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines.

- Develop and maintain a comprehensive technical system configuration and database library of all supporting documentation.

- Schedules, installs, upgrade and maintain operating systems and software.

- Assists development team with modeling, physical design and application tuning.

- Assists in the recommendation of strategies for data center and infrastructure management from business continuity, disaster recovery, monitoring, storage, security.

- Routinely audits hardware and software to ensure compliance with established security standards, policies, procedures, and configuration guidelines.

- Implements and use backup and restore techniques.

- Mentors less experienced administrators on an ongoing and often formal basis.

- Monitor, lead and facilitate IT security events and/or incidents.

- Participate in projects as a security subject matter expert (SME).

- Rotating on call support.

Qualifications:

Prior experience, typically gained with 4 to 7 years, supporting IT operations or IT Security operations.

Experience typically gained with 2 to 5 years performing operations roles with security technologies (at least two of the following):

- Network Security Platform (IPS).

- SIEM.

- Vulnerability scanning and remediation tracking Position Requirements: Clearance, etc..

- Security clearance required (secret), client will sponsor for Top Secret .

Desired Certifications:

CISSP or equivalent experience.

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) or equivalent experience