Desired Skills and Experience
- Experience in a 24x7 global enterprise, preferably in the Financial industry
- CISSP or SANS GIAC certifications preferred
- Knowledge of tools such as; Splunk, Vulnerability Management (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7), Elastic Search and preferred.
- Basic coding/scripting knowledge preferred (Python)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of the business and the ability to assess and address risk without negatively impacting the business
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to show initiative and take on new tasks as assigned
- Ability to effectively communicate risk as it relates to the business
- In depth knowledge of Security Event Management systems
- In depth understanding of Windows operating systems
- In depth understanding Unix & Linux operating systems
- In depth understanding of database systems
- Strong understanding of network technologies
- Excellent understanding of system administration best practices
- Strong knowledge of networking and internetworking technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.)
- General knowledge of incident response processes and procedures
- General knowledge of the functions of various security infrastructure, including firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Proxy Servers, Security Event Managers, VPNs
- Ability to provide 24-hour on-call support