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[SJ-JOB] Security Engineer, Albuquerque Aug 19 2008 09:27PM
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Engineer
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Type: Contract

Closing Date: 2008-09-18

This is a 3 month temp to hire position for our client in Albuquerque, NM.

Security Engineer Job Description

Minimal travel may be required.

General Responsibilities

Incident Handling

• Ensures the continuing accessibility and availability of a variety of mission critical applications, while adhering to standard incident handling processes

• Develops, implements, and coordinates activities to ensure, protect, and restore IT systems, services, and capabilities.

Policy and Procedure

• Interprets existing policy and procedural controls covering:

• Physical security, application and information security, system software security, contingency planning, and compliance with personnel clearance procedures.

• Information technology security for systems processing multiple applications, which require differing security controls, and are typically accessed by a moderate-to-large user community.

• Analyze operational activities and determine changes needed to policies and procedures.

• Implement new or updated operational procedures to protect information assets and manage information security systems.

• Coordinates implementation of new or updated operational procedures with staff and users (where appropriate).

Operations and Maintenance

• Plans and conducts audits. Recommends new or revised security measures and countermeasures based on the results of accreditation reviews.

• Develops specifications to ensure compliance with security requirements at the LAN level.

Special Projects

• Evaluates and recommends the purchase of new security technologies and information security software.

• Implements and administers IT security tools implementation to protect information assets.

• Provides guidance in planning and implementing migration activities.

• Identifies information systems security requirements associated with migrations to new environments.

JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Required General Skills

• Be customer service oriented

• Have excellent written and verbal communication

• Be eligible for a Public Trust clearance

Required Technical Skills

• Comprehensive understanding of basic information security concepts and information security technology.

• Ability to respond to minor and major computer security incidents. Ability to quickly adapt to Agency incident response procedures (working in a virtual team, creating and responding to tickets, attending conference call meetings, interacting with other groups.)

Desired Technical Skills

• Ability to edit and write Firewall Rulesets in primarily a Cisco PIX environment. Implementation of firewall rulesets controlled by an AT&T Universal Telecommunications Network (UTN) implementation.

• Familiarity with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA – PL 107-305, Section iii), and working knowledge of National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) security standards.

Other Desired Technical Skills

• Familiarity with Cisco products, especially Cisco Security Agent (CSA). Ability to tune and manage CSA application for 40,000 user, highly distributed environment mostly Windows Server environment.

• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning tools and processes.

• Familiarity with netForensics to help complete implementation of a Security Information Management System (SIMS), including integration of syslog monitoring. Ability to manage IDS/SIMS and help interpret results.

• Computer forensics skills to diagnose unauthorized computer use, from potential administrative misuse, to suspicion of criminal activity, to testimony when referred if Law Enforcement.

• Familiarity with various forensics tools, such as AnaDisk, CopyQM, CrcMD5, DiskSigPro, FileListPro, FileConvertPro, SafeBack 3.0, GetHTML, GetSlack, Graphics File Extractor, WinHex, X-Ways Forensics, X-Ways Trace and others.

CONTACT
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Call @ 202.212.9969

or

Email resume to: jobs (at) jmisol (dot) com [email concealed]

JMI Solutions
Meisam Izadjoo
Sr. Technical Recruiter
jobs (at) jmisol (dot) com [email concealed]

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