Position Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Operations Analyst. Zen is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. As a Senior Operations Analyst you will be you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our client’s Enterprise Security and Infrastructure Operations Center. This position is a key member of our client delivery requiring a leader responsible for guiding integration and management of agile principles into cybersecurity, network, application monitoring. You will analyze, plan, and execute the work necessary to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability IT systems for the federal government as required by FISMA (Federal Information Security Modernization Act).

**Contingent upon contract award.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Operations Analyst, you’ll be Zen’s lead and expert communicating effectively with government personnel, maintaining appropriate contractor management interface with OCIO leadership and TPOCs. You be responsible for operating a combined monitoring environment of an enterprise NOC/SOC, responsible for cybersecurity, network, cloud, web, and application event monitoring and incident handling. You will lead a highly specialized IT and cybersecurity team of all levels charged with integrating and managing agile principles into cybersecurity, network, application monitoring, cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, penetration testing and forensics.

• Experience: 5 years of experience performing functions and responsibilities as Project leader for large organizations, preferably federal.
• Education: Bachelors of Science in an Information Technology or Cybersecurity field preferred. In lieu of Bachelors of Science degree relevant years of experience equivalent accepted.
• Certification: Active/Good standing professional certification(s) in Project Management Institute (MPI)-Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), CompTIA Security (Sec ), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), System Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), Network (N ), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Authorization Professional (CAP)?
• Strong written communication, strong presentation skills, diplomacy skills, team skills, knowing one’s limits, coping with stress, time management.
• Technical foundation skills: cloud security principles, security vulnerabilities and weaknesses, security engineering, security tools and understanding cloud technologies.?
• Must have a strong understanding of ensuring uptime requirements are met, ability to independently respond to and communicate errors and hardware exceptions.
• Demonstrable technical knowledge, understanding, and skills in IT Security concepts, cloud services, infrastructure, networking, and data management.
• Deliver excellence with minimal supervision and as part of a larger team.
• Demonstrable experience in agile project management, maintenance and development of information systems security programs, documentation, policies, procedures, and tools is imperative.
• Practical experience in conducting security control monitoring, and testing including vulnerability and compliance scans, security control assessment, and risk analysis is essential.
• Experience with operational toolsets that include but not limited to; Azure Security Center, ForeScout, Microsoft Defender Products, Microsoft Sentinel, RSA Archer, Forcepoint, Gigamon, Splunk, Tenable Nessus, Palo Alto, Azure Active Directory, Cisco routers and switches, Cisco ASA and NGFW platforms, Cisco ISE, Akamai, F5
• Experience with all relevant OMB Memorandums, NIST Special Publications, FITARA and standard best practice and federal guidance related to cybersecurity and infrastructure compliance.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong ability to follow policy and procedures, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Define and track success measures to ensure alignment with intended outcomes.
• US Citizenship Required.

Zen Strategics is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protect class. If you need reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please email?accommodations@zenstrategics.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.?