Cyber Security Team Lead
VeredusDC
Posted: September 1, 2015
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Quick Summary
The Cyber Security Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the security of the organization's cyber security systems and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. The ideal candidate will have 7-10 years of experience in cyber security and a strong background in NIST Certification and Accreditation, with hands-on experience in enterprise-level software installation and configuration. The successful candidate will be required to work remotely for the first few months and then be based onsite for the remainder of the contract.
Required Skills
Job Description
Contract to Hire (6 months)
Pay: up to 130K Role perm and $55/hr - $65/hr on contract)
Location: Germantown, MD (needs to plan to be onsite and 1 day a week remote after a few months
Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• CISSP certification required
Special Skills/Knowledge:
• 7-10 years cyber security experience in federal government
• Must have hands-on experience in cyber/network products and operating systems e.g. installation and configuration of enterprise level software
• Significant experience with NIST Certification and Accreditation
• Significant experience with McAfee ePO and all McAfee enterprise products. Knowledge in Symantec enterprise security products is also preferred
• Significant experience with Tenable Security Center and Nessus
• Significant experience in vulnerability scanning and providing remediation recommendations
• Knowledge with Splunk, Metasploit is nice to have
• Experience with intrusion prevention devices (IPS) or intrusion detection devices (IDS) both network and host based
• Incident response and root cause analysis is nice to have
• Experience with security baseline specifications (CIS, USGCB) and Federal government NIST SP 800 series recommended practices
• Exceptional analytic and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking; DNS and Active Directory
• Prefer significant and/or advanced knowledge but does not require hands-on knowledge in the following areas:
o Securing Windows 7 or newer Microsoft operating systems
o Securing Windows Servers including Active Directory
o Securing Microsoft back-end products including SQL server, Exchange server, SharePoint Portal services, ISA, IIS, SCCM, WSUS, etc.
• Expertise in Cyber Security with respect to Federal IT security (NIST, FISMA, OMB)
Related Work Experience:
• Experience working with ticketing systems and help desk tools
• Excellent ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent ability to work in a remote team environment a must
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent people skills are required
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