Skills: Requires excellent interpersonal, problem solving, and written and verbal
communication skills. Must be able to demonstrate flexibility, self-motivation and initiative. Requires the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment and be able to multi-task effectively. Must be detail-oriented, customer-focused and able to work in a team environment. The candidate needs to understand the business reason for analysis and comfortably navigate through the technical details. Additional skills with applications and tools that directly pertain to the information security/vulnerability assessment and compliance arena are highly desirable.
Experience:
At least 5 years overall Information Technology experience within the Information Security area.
Specific technical experience includes:
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Firewall and Intrusion Detection technologies
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Experience in securing Linux
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Scripting languages and command line interfaces beneficial
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Risk and vulnerability assessments (network, host, application),
Must be able to effectively evaluate technical security controls in place on information systems and make management recommendations. Strong understanding of information security engineering processes, architecture methodologies, industry best practices and
governance models (SANS, GIAC, COBIT, NIST etc) and generally accepted security principles.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.