Information Security Infrastructure Professional Norman, OK

Information Security Infrastructure Professional

 

 

Job ID: Job-2510

 

location:       Norman, OK

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $120K - $130K +bonu

 

Description:   

Hands-on security consultant with a breadth of IT security experience in mixed platform environments. This role is within the Information Security Consultancy team and reports to the Infrastructure Information Security Consultancy Team Leader. The Information Security Infrastructure Consultant will evaluate, provide guidance and expertise on the review of existing and design of new solutions. The profile sought is a personable consultant competent in a wide spectrum of Information Security areas used to work in an international firm, preferably with a financial sector background. This is an excellent opportunity to help design, develop, and help solutions adhere to industry best practices while working with cutting edge technologies across the enterprise.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•       Assessment, review and design of secure global solutions

•       Working with teams across the globe to understand and capture business requirements and helping translate those into technical requirements

•       Documenting, evaluating existing solutions and proposing risk mitigation solutions to enhance security and reduce risk exposure

•       Selecting and evaluating alternative solutions, vendors and implementations

•       Using and help others understand risk based decision making

•       Apply working knowledge of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud solutions

•       Apply working knowledge of mobile device management and technology solutions

•       Influence and help increase security awareness amongst business and technical teams alike

•       Contributing to the Information Security Department on decision shaping discussions.

 

We’re looking for a technically savvy individual who can conceptualize and clearly communicate, work independently and in a small team environment. This is a great opportunity to participate in a growing corporate IT security environment.

 

QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate will have at least 6 years of practical experience in the security consulting area with a proven track record of problem solving in a distributed heterogeneous and global environment, and will:

•       Have a strong knowledge of and demonstrated practical experience with Windows, Linux and networks including mobile technologies

•       Have a deep understanding of infrastructure and application security testing, identification of vulnerabilities and remediation

•       Possess a solid working knowledge of risk assessment frameworks and methodologies

•       Have experience in deploying resilient enterprise level Information Security solutions comprising firewalls, Load Balancers, Intrusion/Prevention Detection solutions, SIMs/SIEMs, proxies, Citrix, etc.

•       Be able to translate technical issues into business language and vice versa • Have a clear understanding and working knowledge of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

•       Have had exposure and knowledge of Mobile Device Management solutions

•       Be cognizant of legal and regulatory constraints across various world jurisdictions

•       A relevant IT degree and CISSP. Audit and risk methodology certifications are a plus

 

In addition, the ideal candidate will also have experience or understanding in some of the following:

•       Network security (Firewalls, proxies, DNS, IDPS, switching/routing, encryption, etc)

•       Web technology (IIS, Apache) and security of web-based services & applications • Virtual application hosting (Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop/XenServer)

•       Single-Sign-On protocols and implementation

•       SIEM/SIM and log centralization and processing

•       DDOS protection, Business Continuity concepts

•       Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows 2008 server concepts - scripting is a plus

•       Exchange Server and BES management and logging

•       Vulnerability assessment tools (i.e. Qualys, Nessus)

The primary responsibilities of this role are providing internal Information Security Consultancy for a range of cross platform (Windows/Linux based) enterprise solutions and applications from the aforementioned list of technologies. The candidate should have a high degree of self-motivation, strong analytical and creative problem solving skills, attention to detail, have excellent organizational skills, and must be fluent in English with strong written and oral communication skills. Some travel is to be expected.

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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