Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Network Security Engineer to join our team on a 6month contracttohire basis. This role involves using data from various cyber defense tools to analyze and mitigate threats within our environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in network security and experience with key technologies such as Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Security.

Responsibilities:

Provide timely detection identification and alerting of potential attacks intrusions and anomalous activities.

Use cyber defense tools for continuous monitoring and analysis of systems to identify malicious activities.

Document and escalate incidents including event history status and potential impact for further action.

Analyze identified malicious activities to determine weaknesses exploited exploitation methods and effects on systems and information.

Perform event correlation using information gathered from various sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of observed attacks.

Conduct research analysis and correlation across a wide variety of data sets (indications and warnings).

Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes.

Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.

Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activities and potential threats to network resources.

Coordinate with enterprisewide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.

Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.

Provide daily summary reports of network events and activities relevant to cyber defense practices.

Identify applications and operating systems of network devices based on network traffic.

Qualifications:

Proven experience in network security engineering or a related field.

Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.

Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP CEH CompTIA Security) are a plus.

Identity Access Management experience

Privileged Access Management experience

Microsoft Active Directory experience (understanding users/groups/security groups)

Microsoft Azure MFA experience

Microsoft Azure Security experience

Microsoft Office 365 Security experience

Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities. Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system to identify malicious activity. Document and escalate incidents (including event\'s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment. Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.

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