Security Operations Engineer

Infopulse is inviting a talented professional to join our growing team as a Security Operations Engineer.

Join the team of our customer BICS – a global telecommunication enabler with a physical network stretching through the globe!

Areas of Responsibility

As a member of the team:

• You will focus on corporate security awareness and training programs of different nature.
• You manage security Incidents & Vulnerabilities using our SOC ticketing system.
  • Ensure an adequate problem description for each reported issue,
  • Determine and appoint correct severity to the events.
  • Ensure that incident tickets are accurate and actively follow-up for status updates until remediation/ticket closure
  • You will actively follow-up and actively poll for status updates and progress until remediation / ticket closure.
  • Prepare monthly report for Senior Management with notable security events details
• Log and follow-up policy / risk exception and exemptions through their lifecycle.
• Manage security certificates and ensure timely renewal
• Logging and tracking of temporary access or privileges
• Coordinate pentest activities by maintaining calendar, record consume/available mandays & costs, ensure pentest reports are centralized and securely stored.
• Initiate, follow-up and register evidence of Quarterly User Access reviews
• Be actively involved in the vulnerability scanning process, analysis and following-up with remediation actions
• Initiate and coordinate Risk Assessment
• Explore our big data, analyse trends, identify and maintain meaningful KPI’s and dashboards
• Scan for compliance against our policies and standards, log deviations and strive for remediation
• Develop and fine-tune existing security processes and procedures
• Apply automation where required and/or meaningful
• Act as a first-line contact point for various security consultations

You will have (and want to seize) the opportunity to extend your knowledge, explore, learn and grow in projects like:

• Deployment and operations of a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment.
• Integration of the SIEM tool with sources of security incidents – e.g. logs from servers and applications, IDS/IPS, network and security devices.
• Setting up and operating Vulnerability Management system, Endpoint protection system, etc.
• Threat hunting activities using all available tools (SIEM, IDS, EDR etc)
• Actively detect and identify security vulnerabilities and weaknesses and determine the remediation plan

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional experience with IT and Network Security products and services.
• Passion for IT security tools, products and services, Network and Server Administration technologies
• Knowledge and experience with administration and hardening of Unix/Linux andor Microsoft operating systems
• Knowledge of IT and Information Security principles, techniques and technologies
• Practical knowledge of security systems on the market (eg. firewall, SSL/IPSec VPN, Proxy, Remote Access, PKI …)
• Sound knowledge of Networking protocols and technologies, (e.g., TCP/IP, Firewalls, NGFW, Routers, etc.)
• Application security and general information security knowledge (eg. XSS, buffer overflow, URL tampering, SQL Injection, DDoS, Botnets, …)
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• You have basic programming and/or scripting skills (automation)

Will be an advantage

• Programming and scripting skills (Python, Bash, Powershell, Perl)
• Experience with collaboration tools / ticketing systems (RT, Jira)
• Familiarity with telco technologies / protocols
• Experience with Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions
• Experience with Vulnerability scanners like Nessus, MVM, Qualys, etc.
• Experience with IDS/IPS solutions (Security Onion, Snort, Cisco IPS, NGIPS)
• IT Security Certifications like CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH, GCIH, GCIA, OSCP, etc
• Experience with SIEM and/or SOAR solutions

Personal skills

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and resources
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Flexible and open for fast changes, always willing to learn and improve
• You are structured and keen to identify and implement improvements