Description

*All candidates must reside in MN in order to be considered***

Immediate contract for a Security Operations Engineer to support and maintain a growing Azure infrastructure and the Azure-hosted systems. You will be a technical subject matter expert for our Azure environment.

The duties of this role will include:

• Ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems and sensitive information.

• Deploy, manage, maintain, and monitor security systems and their corresponding or associated software, including Palo Alto firewalls, Azure Sentinel Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM) solution, intrusion detection systems, cryptography systems, and anti-virus software.

• Monitor, triage and investigate security alerts for indicators of compromise.

• Assist in security audit processes including internal security reviews, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and ISO 27001 certification.

• Maintain virtual networks, provision network segmentation and network security groups for Azure cloud-based environment.

• Responsible for hardening of Linux and Windows servers, cloud-based services and active directory domains. Manage and maintain security aspects of group policy and baseline images.

• Maintain and test disaster recovery plan for computer operating systems, databases, networks, servers, and software applications

• Conduct root cause analysis for failures to diagnose underlying issues

• Provision azure servers and resources for the cloud environment.

Interested candidates should contact Sally Lander at 612.249.0254 or submit resumes to sally.lander@roberthalf.(com).

Requirements

· 3+ years’ experience as System Administrator or Information Security Specialist

· Experience with Windows Server and Linux virtual machines

· Experience with network firewalls or Azure Network Security Groups

· Solid understanding of SSL/TLS certificates and Public Key Infrastructure

· Experience managing an IDS, SIEM and vulnerability management solutions

Nice to Have:

· Experience deploying and maintaining firewalls in Azure (Palo Alto and similar)

· Solid understanding of RBAC models and SSO solutions (SAML 2, OAuth 2, OIDC)

· Proficient in system hardening and patch management strategies

· Experience working on a Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) investigating events, triaging potential incidents, containing environments, conducting forensics analysis

· Familiarity with security frameworks and risk-based security programs

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