At Optiv, we’re on a mission to help our clients make their businesses more secure. We’re one of the fastest growing companies in a truly essential industry.

In your role at Optiv, you’ll be inspired by a team of the brightest business and technical minds in cyber security. We are passionate champions for our clients, and know from experience that the best solutions for our clients’ needs come from working hard together. As part of our team, your voice matters, and you will do important work that has impact, on people, businesses and nations. Our industry and our company move fast, and you can be sure that you will always have room to learn and grow. We’re proud of our team and the important work we do to build confidence for a more connected world.

• Experience and Skills (General):
  • Three or more years of full-time professional experience in the Information Security field
  • Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), Managed Security Service (MSS), or enterprise network environment
  • Excellent time management, reporting, and communication skills
    • Ability to generate comprehensive written reports and recommendations
    • Write professional emails
  • Coaching and training experience
  • Previous experience as a point of escalation in a technical environment
  • Customer interactions and creation of executive presentations
  • Understanding of contemporary security architectures/devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, remote access technologies, anti-malware, SIEM, and AV
  • Ability to troubleshoot technical problems and ask probing questions to find the root cause or a problem
• Experience and Skills (Technical)
  • Queue management
  • IDS monitoring/analysis with tools such as Sourcefire and Snort
  • Experience with SIEM platforms preferred (QRadar, LogRhythm, McAfee/Nitro, ArcSight, Splunk) a plus
  • Familiarity with web based attacks and the OWASP Top 10 at a minimum
    • Attack vectors and exploitation
    • Mitigation
    • Direct (E.g. SQL Injection) versus indirect (E.g. cross-site scripting) attacks
  • Familiarity with SANS top 20 critical security controls
  • Understand the foundations of enterprise Windows security including:
    • Active Directory
    • Windows security architecture and terminology
    • Privilege escalation techniques
    • Common mitigation controls and system hardening
  • Anti-Virus (AV)  and Host Based Intrusion Prevention (HIPS)
    • Experience in monitoring at least one commercial AV solution such as (but not limited to) McAfee/Intel, Symantec, Sophos or Trend Micro
    • Ability to identify common false positives and make suggestions on tuning
  • Malware
    • Understanding of root causes of malware and proactive mitigation
    • Propagation of malware in enterprise environments
    • Familiarity with web based exploit kits and the methods employed by web based exploit kits
    • Familiarity with concepts associated with Advanced Persistent Threats and “targeted malware”
    • Experience with malware protection tools such as FireEye a plus.
    • Understanding of malware mitigation controls in an enterprise environment.
  • Network Based Attacks / System Based Attacks
    • Denial of Service Attacks
      • HTTP Based DoS Attacks
      • Network Based DoS Attacks
    • Brute force attacks
    • Covert channels, egress, and data exfiltration techniques
    • Familiarity with vulnerability scoring systems such as CVSS
    • Basic understanding of vulnerability assessment tools such as vulnerability scanners and exploitation frameworks

MUST HAVE:

• Shift flexibility, including the ability to provide on call support when needed
• Demonstrated experience and success in a Managed Service client environment
• Ability to work greater than 40 hours per week as needed
• Ability to travel up to ten percent of the time
• Ability to act as a part-time on-call escalation point for security incidents

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with Incident Ticketing Systems (i.e. ServiceNow, Remedy, RemedyForce, Heat, etc.).
• General security knowledge (GCIA, CISSP, CCSE, CISA, HBSS, NSA, CEH, Cisco Security, Security +, OSCP or other security certifications).
• CCNA, CCDA, CCSA, CCIE, CISSP, CEH, or MCSE.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.