Information Technology Security Specialist

Job Title: IT Security Specialist

Location:- Los Angeles, CA

Employment Type: Contract

Job Description:

• Ability to technically interpret security events from: firewalls, endpoint protection, intrusion prevention/detection systems, security information and events management (SIEM), proxies, advanced persistent threats, email systems, servers (physical and virtual), databases and packets

• Ability to interpret common attacks and exploits including but not limited to: Denial of Service, Domain Name Systems, malware infections, exploit kits, drive-by compromises, spear phishing, and/or zero days

• Ability to analyze and reverse engineer malware packages to assess threats and indicators of compromise

• Ability to create, correlate and modify advanced SIEM use-cases to trigger notifications on all severity levels of incidents

• Ability to develop, analyze and interpret programming of malicious codes

• Ability to demonstrate mastery of Tier 1 and Tier 2 Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst responsibilities

• Ability to reliably monitor and analyze specified data sources and incidents

• Must have technical experience and knowledge on network and systems administration

• Ability to consistently follow incident monitoring processes and procedures

• Ability to document and communicate incident status updates, for non-technical personnel

• Ability to create consistent and complete incident reports

• Responsible for monitoring escalated event alerts

• Ability to work well under pressure and be able to think outside of the box

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 (two) years of incident handling, security architecture, malware analysis, or similar experience is preferred

• Candidate is preferred to have at least one of the following certifications (should be current): Security+, GSEC, GCIA, GCIH, CISSP or equivalent but is not required

o College graduate with a computer science, computer engineering, forensic degree may be considered.

Valid security clearance is preferred but not required