Remote or Kansas City, MO
Estimated Duration: 12 Months
Wage: Hourly/ W2
Employee Type: Contractor
Job Summary
Our client is seeking an Information Security Engineer who will be responsible for the monitoring, maintaining, and supporting of a wide range of information security policies, practices, and systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Administers information security compliance practices (rules, controls, security safeguards, etc.) to protect information assets
- Identifies, recommends, and implements procedure/process improvements and enhancements for increased efficiency and effectiveness
- Interprets and addresses requests and concerns
- Administers, maintains, and implements standards, guidelines, and operating policies and procedures
- Analyzes, documents, and communicates risks using the SAFR risk management process
- Provides support and resolution of security problems by analyzing, troubleshooting, remediating, and resolving issues
- Administers, and supports, initiatives that promote sound cyber security practices to include creation and delivery of training (general, business-specific, etc.)
- Evaluates programs for effectiveness and improvement
- Analyzes the results of scans, tests, assessments, compliance activities, etc. and reports on results
- Provides access support, including coordinating access changes and security reviews
- May be required to provide on-call support as needed, which might necessitate additional work outside of normal business hours
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Familiarity with Agile and SAFe practices
Engineer Responsibilities
- Analyzes vulnerability assessment, management results from patch penetration, scans for vulnerabilities, conducts security analysis of scan results, and validates vulnerability remediation
- Performs event monitoring and incident response by analyzing anomalies, and containing, mitigating, and analyzing cyber incidents
- Supports network and endpoint security compliance by providing assistance with, and assessment of, configuration, applications, and agents
- Assists with security consultations to, business areas to understand their business functions for consideration of cyber security impacts, policies, and direction
- Supports the use of available technology to enhance productivity, reduce manual effort through automation, and improve work processes
