Job Description
We have
a
position
for a
IT Security Engineer
with one of our clients in
Atlanta, GA
for an initial contract duration of
7 months.
US citizens and all those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.
The Information Security Engineer (ISE) is responsible for IT security policy enforcement and maintenance; support and assist with enterprise strategy of security policy education, training, and awareness activities; monitoring compliance within the Client and applicable law; and coordinating investigation and reporting of security incidents. Monitor, assess, and fine-tune the IT business continuity and disaster recovery program, perform network penetration tests, vulnerability assessment scans, risk assessment reviews and remediation.
Develop and monitor practices to ensure that the network information is secure from unauthorized access, protected from inappropriate alteration, physically secure, and available to authorized users in a timely fashion. The ISE's duties include training in and dissemination of security policies and practices as well as developing strategies and plans to provide for timely business resumption in the event of a serious disruption. Applicants employed in this position will be required to work extra hours, as needed, and to be on-call for scheduled after-hour emergencies and respond to after-hours emergencies as needed.
Supervision Received:
Direction received is very general and focuses on end-results and is typically collaborative in nature. Position plans own work and project schedules and sequences.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Monitor and advise on information security issues related to the systems and infrastructure workflow and utilization at Client to ensure the internal security controls for the Client IT infrastructure is appropriate and operating as intended. Coordinating and supporting key strategies, initiates, and programs for enterprise security protection.
- Analyze security systems and seek improvements on a continuous basis
- Help drive security standards and best practices
- Advise and implement application, and infrastructure security strategy.
- Perform breach, threat, and vulnerability analysis
- Help drive user education on information security best practices
- Deploy, configure, and monitor new security tools
- Troubleshoot and fix security infrastructure issues
- Handle escalations from Cybersecurity Analyst
- Interact with, configure, and troubleshoot network intrusion detection devices and other security systems via proprietary and commercial consoles, both local and remote
- Report possible threats or software issues
- Research weaknesses and find ways to counter them
- Understand software, hardware and internet needs while adjusting them according to our business environment
- Assist fellow employees with cybersecurity, software, hardware or IT needs