About the Job:

Our client is seeking a professional and experienced System Hardening Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for ensuring system hardening occurs in a methodologically and repeatable process to achieve cyber resiliency in as quick an efficient manner as possible. The candidate will work with Corporate Information Security Office (CISO) team members to improve the overall Cybersecurity plans and act as a liaison and evangelist to encourage strong security practices across all projects, code development, infrastructure, and operations.

This position is located in Morrisville, North Carolina.

 

Responsibilities Include:

• Work within the CISO team to promote best network security engineering practices supporting this network while focusing on cyber device hardening.
• Disabling unwanted SUID and SGID Binaries
• Ensuring operating systems are up to date, especially security patches and uses security extensions
• Manages Ports, Protocols and Services on assigned systems
• Investigates suspicious activity on assigned servers
• Enforces secure password management practices
• Identifies and disables unnecessary software or processes
• Research problems and recommend solutions to improve system security posture
• Drive policies and compliance in supporting the CISO.
• Contribute information technology hardening knowledge in improving the security architecture
• Harden information technology systems per U.S. Government and commercial industry best practices

 

Required Skills:

• 4+ years demonstrated experience in enterprise security or related field
• Bachelors Degree in Information Security or related field
• Experience with cyber security development projects and programs for U.S. Government and/or commercial clients
• Experience with process development and deployment
• Experience with and knowledge of network, security and IT best practices
• Experience with NIST-800 (Series) - specifically NIST 800-123, DoD STIGS
• Familiarity with Data Encryption for secure communications
• Experience removing unnecessary software on servers.
• Experience with SSH Hardening
• Ability to effectively communicate technical knowledge and translate to business leadership.
• Ability to communicate technical knowledge effectively through writing.

Posted On: Monday, June 11, 2018