IAM Security Engineer

Job Title: IAM Security Engineer

Location: Columbia SC 29210 (Local Candidates needed only)

Duration: 12 months

Pay Rate: $70 Hourly on W2(NO C2C Allowed)

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

Preference will be given to a candidate who can work onsite over hybrid or over full-time remote (on-site as needed).

• Identity and access management ensuring that appropriate identity management, single sign on, multi-factor authentication, active directory and applications are properly implemented and configured to support it and security operations
• Responsible for automation development and implementation of disparate security and enterprise it tools
• Responsible for planning, designing, development and implementation of enterprise security solutions that align with business goals and risk tolerance.
• Design, deploy and manage countermeasures to known security threats and develop preventative mitigation strategies for new and emergent threats to enterprise data, networks and associated services.
• Ensure, validate and measure the consistent application of protective measures throughout the enterprise business application and infrastructure support environments.
• Take appropriate action to protect state data and technology services.

Required Skills (Rank in order of importance):

• Five years of experience and expert understanding of identity and access control, logging and reporting systems
• Five years of experience and expertise in automation development using tools such as python and bash
• Cyber security awareness and understanding
• Five years of experience with linux, windows, network security protocols and procedures
• Five years of experience in supporting large it environments and/or system deployments

Preferred Skills (Rank in order of importance):

• Siem analysis and reporting
• Security frameworks: nist, csf, cjis, irs 1075, cms mars-e
• Application security (appsec)

Required Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an information technology or information security related field
• Eight years of relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of education

Preferred education/certifications:

• Cissp, cisa, ciso or equivalent advanced security certification.
• Additional relevant certifications (e.g., ceh, oscp, gpen).
• Vendor certifications in siem or logging technologies.

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