Security Analyst - 100% onsite

3 month contract to hire

Rate: $55-60/hr

Salary: $100-120k/yr

The right candidate will address daily tasks and routine processes for IT security. This position will be responsible for

assessing IT security incidents and applying the necessary technical troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue. The

Security Analyst will also be responsible for monitoring suspicious or malicious activity in the company IT infrastructure

and addressing security risk and incidents.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

· Active Directory Management

o Domain controller maintenance and troubleshooting

o ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services)

· Active Directory Federation Services

o ADFS Server maintenance and troubleshooting

o Work with IT Operations and Development teams with ADFS authentication

· DNS (Domain Name Service)

o Creation and management of DNS records

o Management of F5 DNS VIPs and pools

· Active Directory Sites and Services

o Management of sites and subnets

· Active Directory Domains and Trusts

o Management of domain trust configuration

· Group Policy Management

o Troubleshooting and cleanup of GPOs

· Patching Operations

o Patching research and preparation

§ Research the risk and value of each patch and report the "company" risk rating based on all layers of security in our environment

§ Validate that all applications for IT security are functioning as designed and intended at the conclusion of patching

o SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)

o Work with the SCCM administrators to address all patching issues and confirm that patching has been configured correctly

· Forensic Operations

o Security Monitoring

§ Monitor security alerts and tools for signs of compromise or malicious behavior

§ Monitoring network alerts and traffic for DDoS attacks

· Forensic Investigation

o Investigate the root cause of compromise incidents or exploited vulnerabilities

o Investigate infrastructure weaknesses and report on malicious activity or potential risk

· Project Operations

o Assist with delegated duties for all security projects

o Partner with other security or IT operations team members for deployments or maintenance

· Conducts all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the

goodwill and profit of the company

· Ability to participate in a weekly call rotation

· IT Operations

o Monitor and assist with any and all IT operational emergencies to keep business applications

operational

· On-Call Responsibilities

o Respond and escalate all IT security incidents as needed

· Mentoring and Training

o .Responsible for the mentoring of Security Administrators

· Ability to travel overnight

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

· High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

· One to four years’ experience in an IT related field

· Knowledge of IT Security Operations and Forensic Operations

· Experience with computer networks

· Experience with project management and delegation

· Business communication and collaboration skills

· Documentation skills

· Ability to work well within a team, and work alone to accomplish tasks independently

· Ability to interpret research into solutions to actual problems

· Customer Service skills

· Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written oral form or via

DRH applications

· Proficiency with MS Office and email