Security Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client in Louisville, KY that is seeking a Security Consultant.Summary:The CyberSecurity Operations Center Engineer will require both strategic and tactical experience. Role duties and assignments will include designing operational automation uses cases in order to maximize operational effectiveness, identifying and building process engineering strategies that will mitigate any gaps in current operations, and enable response teams when new or existing alerting/monitoring platforms are onboarded.Responsibilities: The CyberSecurity Operations Senior Engineer monitors hardware, software and network firewalls, intrusion detection systems, EDR systems, Email threat detection platforms, Cloud SIEM, etc. Administers security policies to control physical and virtual access to systems Provides information to management regarding the negative impact on the business caused by theft, destruction, alteration or denial of access to information and systems Evaluates information security configurations when intrusions have occurred and monitors the effectiveness of implemented changes Responsible for detecting process engineering optimizations that can enable more effective and efficient response actives Train and communicate to operational team members on process engineering enhancements that have been developed The Senior Engineer will play a strategic role and significant contributor to building process engineering strategy to ensure response activities continuously improved Makes decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations, and requires minimal direction and receives guidance where needed Follows established guidelines/proceduresREQUIREMENTS: 2+ years of incident analysis, security architecture, malware research, SOC, or any other similar incident response experience Fundamental understanding of security tools such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, web proxies, DLP, CASB, SIEM, DNS security, DDoS protection, and firewalls Fundamental understanding of cloud security and responding to cloud alerts/events Knowledge of NIST and MITRE ATT&CK security frameworks Knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems including active directory and Unix systems Experience analyzing and inspecting log files, network packets, and any other security tool information output from multiple system types Familiar with basic reverse engineering principles and understand of malware, rootkits, TCP/UDP packets, network protocols Team-oriented and skilled in working within a collaborative environment Ability to effectively multi-task, prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment Required flexibility to work nights, weekends, and/or holiday shifts in the event of an incident response emergency Experience with technical analysis of email headers, links, and attachments to determine if an email is malicious, and then executing remediation techniques to protect the environmentKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.