FrankCrum Staffing has an opening for an IT Security Administrator (Tier 1) in the Tampa area. The IT Security Administrator acts as a first responder, monitoring alarms coming from a wide variety of network monitoring and security systems across customers’ environments, including, SIEMs, Firewalls, Vulnerability Scanners, IDS/IPS (host and network based), Application Control and Anti-Virus. The IT Security Administrator (Tier 1) supports and acts as a member of a first response team to provide accurate and actionable intelligence to customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Perform event log analysis, incident response to critical security alarms, and network monitoring for health and availability of clients’ systems.
• Analyze network traffic to assess, prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms.
•  Monitor security systems and analyze potential threats using security technologies such as SIEM, Firewalls, Vulnerability Scanners, IDS/IPS (host and network based), and Anti-Virus.
• Investigate indicators of compromise to determine trends and eliminate threats within customer environments.
• Communicate alerts to clients regarding intrusions and degradation of their network infrastructure, applications and operating systems within customer expectations.
• Provide accurate and actionable intelligence to clients.
• Performing scheduled checks of security devices to detect failures in technology and process.
• Re-categorizing, blacklisting, whitelisting to allow/disallow access.
• Reviewing output of vulnerability scans and performing actions as appropriate.
• Conducting performance and health monitoring of security applications and critical network infrastructure.
• Creating and preparing reports from monitoring tools.
• Able to perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree and/or 1-3 years of experience in an information technology role
• Professional certifications such as CompTIA Security+, Network+, SANS/GIAC (GSEC), and/or equivalent are preferred
• Experience in IT, network and security operations, with strong knowledge of and hands-on experience with:  Network security attacks, vectors and network protocols including TCP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP, HTTP, and FTP
• Experience with network troubleshooting of workstations, server, switches, and routers
• Operating systems knowledge and systems administration skills for various versions of UNIX, LINUX, and Windows and ability to read and understand Windows logs

• Strong knowledge of the various security solutions such as AV, IPS, IDS, SIEM, firewalls and proxies
• Understanding of Incident Response phases
• Information Security and Compliance industry standards and best practices

Knowledge, Skills and Characteristics Required:  

• A keen interest in security and the need for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems to be maintained
•  Excellent analytical skills
•  Excellent communication, presentation and listening skills
•  Excellent organizational and time-management skills, and the ability to multi-task and prioritize
•  High level of integrity, judgment and situational awareness
•  Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with peers, across teams, and with management
•  Flexibility and adaptability to change
•  Capability of learning and performing all the activities that everyone on the shift does
•  Excellent customer service skills

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