Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is a rapidly growing Fortune 200 aviation organization. The Cyber Security Engineer will protect networks, infrastructure, endpoints, and data by monitoring threats, addressing vulnerabilities, implementing security controls, and supporting cybersecurity compliance and continuity programs.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and defend systems against unauthorized access, modification, and destruction
- Identify suspicious threats and activities
- Identify and spotlight vulnerabilities in networks, programs, and applications. Correct problems and prevent security breaches
- Design security elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
- Design, build, implement and support security systems
- Monitor network traffic for unusual activity
- Review, investigate and respond to real-time alerts within systems
- Monitor online security-related resources for new and emerging cyber threats
- Establish security requirements for networks and equipment
- Conduct monthly security audits and make policy recommendations
- Perform vulnerability and network scanning assessments
- Configure and support security tools such as firewalls, anti-virus software, patch management systems, etc
- Contribute to and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery protocols
- Provide technical security advice
- Implement network security policies, application security, access control and corporate data safeguards
- Generate monthly Cyber Metrics Dashboards
- Preparing the organization for security certifications such as ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST 800-171, GDPR, etc
Skills
- Must meet requirements to get a US Government Secret Security Clearance
- 3-5 years of working experience in threat hunting within a corporate environment
- Technical knowledge of firewalls, wireless access points, VPNs, endpoint security solutions and desktop operating systems
- Demonstrable experience related to IT governance, risk management and problem-solving
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification preferred
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field preferred
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure preferred
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