Desired Skills and Experience

  • Some of the primary responsibilities of this role would include:
  • Provide Tripwire configuration, optimization, management, and reporting
  • Configure tripwire to operate and discover security, application, and operating system related items
  • Optimize tripwire to capture data and events, filter out unneeded items, and configure tripwire application itself to run efficiently.
  • Document tripwire operations, configurations, and changes
  • Test, troubleshoot, and recommend changes for tripwire operation and security.
  • Configure tripwire to report and alert thru external systems (like Splunk)
  • Work with Federal Staff, vendors, contractors working with systems using tripwire.
  • Configure and review tripwire to filter out, confirm, and/or identify false positives
  • Patch and test new and old versions of tripwire. Working experience in high-availability environments (e.g. LVS/Heartbeat, ldirectord, HAproxy)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
  • Advanced Red Hat Certification (e.g. RHCSA, RHCS, etc.) preferred
  • Splunk Certification (e.g. SCA, SCSE) preferred
  • Advanced Operational Security Certification (e.g. ISACA CISA, TCNA, TCSE, TCLM) preferred
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change Management
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Active listening skills and effective communication strategies
  • Process improvement knowledge (e.g. ITIL Foundations in Service Management, CMMI, etc.)
  • HEAT Service Management experience
  • High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
  • Five (5) or more years of direct experience in as a Tier 3 Administrator in IT Infrastructure operations for a large network environment
  • Intermediate (Administrator) level System Administration Certification