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Swift · 4 months ago

Senior Configuration Hardening Specialist

Culpeper, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$101K/yr - $188K/yr

4+ years exp

Swift is the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. They are seeking a Senior Configuration Hardening Specialist to define and customize configuration hardening documents, analyze compliance levels, and implement process improvements in their operations.

Financial ServicesSecurity

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define / customize configuration hardening documents, similar to CIS benchmarks or DOD STIGS, for technologies such as Linux, Windows, Databases, Network devices, web servers and many others

Customize compliance hardening verification tools to align with the company’s official configuration hardening documents

Scan Swift systems to determine their compliance levels against the defined configuration hardening documents

Analyze configuration hardening deviation requests and advise customers on proper mitigation and remediation steps

Identify and automate repetitive and manual tasks in the day-to-day operations

Identify, document and implement process improvements

Qualification

WindowsLinuxCIS benchmarksTenable NessusKubernetesAWSDatabasesNetwork DevicesServiceNowAutomation/scriptingRegular expressionsXMLAnalytical problem solvingSecurity+Network+CISSPCommunication skillsTeam playerCustomer orientedAdaptability

Required

Experience with technologies such as Windows, Linux, Web Servers, Databases, Kubernetes, AWS, Network Devices

Experience with Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks / DOD STIGs and CIS tools such as CIS CAT-pro

Experience with Tenable Nessus, including development/customization of compliance audit files

Experience in risk analysis of identified deviations to security related controls

Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience

University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Certifications: Security+, Network+, CISSP

Preferred

Administration experience of Operating System / application / network devices

Familiarity with regular expressions and XML

Experience with ServiceNow Configuration Compliance module

Experience with automation/scripting (Linux shell scripting, Git)

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance with no premium costs for our employees and their families

Retirement plan plus matching 401k

Company

Swift

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SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence.

Founded in 1973

La Hulpe, Brabant Wallon, BEL

1001-5000 employees

http://www.swift.com

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