SIEM Administrator/Security Analyst

SIEM Administrator/Security Analyst

Job Location: Boca Raton, FL (ON-SITE) Job Duration: Contract through June plus annual extension.

Summary: Security Analyst is a key member of the Security Risk Compliance Office team. Incumbent will have advance knowledge of Splunk, Rapid7 Nexpose, Unix, Windows, VMWare, Databases, and Data Storage environments.

Responsibilities

• Security Analyst will focus on advance Splunk administration, configuration, and development efforts, with a goal towards enhancing and further refine Splunk infrastructure as it relates to application, machine logs, troubleshooting, reporting, customer queries, and building dashboards.
• Focus on continual evaluation and process improvement and maximizing Splunk capabilities to increase value to FTE’s Information Technology cross functional teams.
• Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration, log aggregation, and maintenance across a variety of platforms to include UNIX, Windows, VMWare, SQL, Oracle, and Data Storage environments.
• Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems including on-point for escalation for Splunk operations support.
• Monitor the agents and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Design Splunk dashboards for monitoring PCI-DSS, Financial, including Perimeter Security environments and as required.
• Design and maintain support for SaaS environments to ensure appropriate logging and monitoring is maintained.
• Ensure that Splunk environment maintains a viable failover environment which is tested on a regular basis.
• Perform vulnerability scans for applications, databases, and server environments aligned with PCI-DSS standards and industry best practices.
• Work with respective FTE’s Information Technology cross functional teams to ensure remediation of identified vulnerabilities are remediated within timeframes outlined by PCI-DSS standards and industry best practices.
• Perform cross functional training for other SRCO team members in Splunk tool management and monitoring.
• Provide support to Firewall administrator work with SRCO team assist with forensic analysis, investigations.
• Ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines established by SRCO and industry best practices.

Requirements

• Education: Four (4) year degree or equivalent experience
• Experience: Must have 5 to 7 years hands-on experience with Splunk Must have 5 to 7 years’ experience with Unix (RedHat), Windows, VMWare and other platforms Working 2 to 3 years’ working experience with vulnerability scanning tool (Rapid7 Nexpose preferred) Must have advanced understanding of database environments such as SQL, Oracle etc.