IT Network Security Specialist 2

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Direct End Client: State of Ohio

Agency: Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC)

Job Title: IT Network Security Specialist 2

Position Type: Contract

Location: Remote

No. of Hours: 40 hrs/week

Interview Type: Microsoft Teams

Note: Candidate must be from OH State only

State of Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC)

Position Summary:-

• Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of DRC data, systems, and networks.

• Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.

• Design and maintain enterprise SCCM/MECM patching strategies for Windows endpoints and supported server environments.

• Coordinate vulnerability information from Qualys with SCCM patching data to identify vulnerable systems requiring remediation.

• Perform vulnerability-first remediation by identifying affected assets and determining the appropriate patch, configuration change, software upgrade, or compensating control.

• Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.

• Evaluating the organization's security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly.

• Taking appropriate security measures to ensure that DRC's infrastructure and existing data are kept safe.

Responsibilities:-

• Create and manage SCCM device collections, deployment groups, maintenance windows, software update groups, and deployment schedules.

• Analyze patch compliance, deployment status, failed installations, pending reboots, missing updates, and non-reporting devices.

• Manage Software Update Points (SUP), WSUS synchronization, software update groups, deployment packages, and Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs).

• Troubleshoot SCCM client installation, client health, policy retrieval, software update scanning, deployment evaluation, and content download failures.

• Develop procedures for emergency patch deployment when critical or actively exploited vulnerabilities require accelerated remediation.

• Package and deploy third-party application updates and security fixes where Microsoft updates do not provide remediation.

• Create and maintain SCCM operational runbooks, patching procedures, troubleshooting guides, deployment standards, and rollback procedures.

• Perform scheduled and ad-hoc vulnerability scans across networks, servers and endpoints.

• Work with server, endpoint, security, network, and application teams to resolve cross-platform remediation dependencies.

• Tune scans and reduce false positives to improve data accuracy.

• Develop vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reports.

• Conducting testing and scans to identify any vulnerabilities in the network and system.

Skills:

• Network Security and threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management

• Hands-on experience administering Qualys, remediation documentation and patch management processes

• Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration.

• Experience with Vulnerability scan reports and remediation tracking, risk assessment and compliance documentation

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