Position: Cybersecurity Systems Administrator

Client: State of Maryland, Department of Information Technology (DoIT)

Location: 100 Community Pl, Crownsville, MD 21032 (hybrid)

Duration: Long-Term

Interview mode: Face-to-face

DK Consulting Overview: Founded in May 2003, DK Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned small business, was formed to provide management and technology solutions based on industry best practices. DK Consulting, LLC works with multiple State, Federal, and Commercial customers, and our services range from providing customers with that one ‘critical resource’ to assuming responsibility for an entire IT project. We offer excellent benefits and provide exceptional employee management.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Configuration management and control of maintenance architectural/design/functional changes to Splunk Enterprise, ES and SOAR
• Provide knowledge and execution of platform hardening using standards such as STIGs or CIS Benchmarks
• Coordinate with various system owner support groups to gather and analyze requirements, propose implementation and integrations solutions, and plan and coordinate/execute system deployment tasks/projects to successful closure
• Gap assessment and analysis of security solutions and recommendation of improvement initiatives
• Architecture and design with future growth in mind to ensure a balance between scalability, performance, stability, reliability, and agility
• Implementation, administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and break-fix support of security tools
• Defense in-depth gap analysis and improvement recommendations of the security architecture and posture of the SOC infrastructure and environment
• Development and implementation of secure configurations standards of SOC tools
• Configuration management and control of maintenance architectural/design/functional changes to Splunk ES and Phantom
• Monitoring system updates and planning, reviewing, and executing patch/upgrade deployments
• Analyze system operational requirements and define, design, develop, and maintain/improve health and performance monitoring dashboards, alerts, and reports etc.
• Operations monitoring of SOC tool to ensure proactive issue identification and resolution
• Analyze business requirements, research and recommend what tools should be used to complete the Cybersecurity vision (i.e. PAM, Forensic, DevSecOps, Defense-in-Depth, Zero-Trust)
• Plan, define, and implement an effective and efficient data backup strategy
• Plan, define, and implement an effective and efficient data archiving strategy
• Defining, developing, implementing, and improving processes and procedures for to support and maintain SOC tools
• Experience engineering and administration of enterprise EDR systems

Minimum Qualifications: Must demonstrate the following experience by start and stop employment dates in resume.

• At least ten (10) years of hands-on experience in LAN/Network Administration
• At least five (5) years of Technical Lead experience on system management /deployment projects with a focus on Linux based OS
• At least five (5) years of progressive experience in enterprise and security architecture, design, implementation, and support

Preferred Qualifications: Industry recognized security certification, IAT Level II/III

Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline.

Citizenship: Must be U.S. citizen