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Southwest Research Institute · 2 months ago

IT SPECIALIST - SR. IT SPECIALIST - Cybersecurity

San Antonio, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

3+ years exp

Southwest Research Institute is focused on securing the enterprise through a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity tools and services. The Senior IT Specialist will engage in cybersecurity analysis, support, and operations, including the deployment and maintenance of security applications and infrastructure.

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No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide cybersecurity analysis and support in an Enterprise environment

Deploy, configure, and maintain security applications

Maintain and provide continuous security configurations of cybersecurity infrastructure

Research, recommend, evaluate, and deploy new cybersecurity technologies and capabilities

Participate in daily review of alerts and incident response (IR) activities

Effectively document system configurations, findings, and results of IR activities

Monitoring and maintaining Endpoint Protection and Response (EDR) and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) systems, Enterprise Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing programs

Monitoring and maintaining Next Generation firewall systems and policies and L3/L7 Load-balancing and Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Support and management of Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution

Participate in the support and management of the Enterprise Security Information Event Management (SIEM) solution to include advanced reporting, data analysis and correlation

Participate in the support and configuration of the security for Microsoft O365 Entra ID cloud services

Qualification

Cybersecurity analysisIncident responseNetwork securitySecurity orchestrationEndpoint ProtectionVulnerability ManagementPenetration TestingOperating systems administrationNetwork fundamentalsScriptingAPI utilization

Required

Requires a Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity, IT Operations, or related degree with relevant experience. In lieu of a degree 5 years of Cybersecurity and/or IT administration experience and related certifications

3 years: Relevant Cybersecurity and/or IT administration experience with a Bachelors degree

3-7 years: Experience working with incident response and/or network security platforms such as Endpoint Protection, Threat Intelligence, Security Orchestration Automation and Response

3-7 years: Experience with administration of modern operating systems (e.g.- Windows Server, Windows Desktop and Linux)

Experience with network fundamentals (TCP/IP, Vlans and network subnetting) as well as scripting, development, and utilizing application programing interfaces (API)

A valid/clear driver's license is required

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

Applicant must be a U.S. citizen