SOC Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

SOC Engineer

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a SOC Engineer for a contract opportunity in Dallas, TX.

SOC Engineer Job Details

We are looking for a Security Operation Center Engineer to work in a newly formed 7X24 Security Operations Center in Dallas, TX.

We are looking for candidates who can provide a professional interface to customers, provide management and oversight (both technically and professionally) to staff, and command a leading presence when faced with a multitude of catastrophic events. An overall flexibility and willingness to work under unpredictable time and project variables is essential.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Security Monitoring practice by an intimate knowledge of the SIEM technologies used and the security threat landscape

• SOC technology/SIEM/threat intelligence/reporting

• Security Monitoring 24x7 operation

• Client delivery based on deliverables stipulated in the SLA; including delivery of reports and incident response / forensics for security breaches

• Delivery of Managed Security Services (MSS) services and customer satisfaction from the North America Security Operation Center for clients who make use of the Security Operation

• Oversee the development and maintenance of standard procedures related to the SOC.

• Coordination with other global offices, as well as various customers for escalation of issues Additional responsibilities:

• Provide detection and response to security events and incidents within the network as well as various supported customer networks

• PCI and Web application vulnerability scanning

• Security log management and monitoring

• Intrusion detections and prevention systems operations

• Vulnerability detection, assessment, and mitigation

• Risk assessment and deployment of security patches.

• Antivirus management and operations.

• Develop and maintaining information security metrics.

• Administrative and service account creation.

• Provide assistance to core security and incident response teams

• Enterprise encryption standards development and support

• Development and distribution of various security advisories and awareness messages

• Maintain growing knowledge of industry trends relating to security management and services.

 SOC Engineer Mandatory Skills

-Appropriate candidates should possess at least 5-7 years’ experience as part of a Managed Security Services offering.

• Candidate should possess at least 5-7 years' experience in IT Security management in support of commercial and/or governmental customers.

• Candidate should possess at least 5-7 years' experience as an individual contributor in an IT security environment.

• Candidate should possess at least 5-7 years performing various levels of support in a Security Operations Center.

• Candidate should possess at least 2-3 years performing various levels of support in a Managed Security Services capacity.

• Candidate should possess at least 1 security related certification from a reputable certification authority (ISC2, SANS, ISACA etc.)

Required Skills:

• PMP and/or ITIL V3 Foundations certifications beneficial.

• Candidate should have strong communication skills and exhibit a professional demeanor.

• Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with a minimal impact on reliability.

• Excellent project management skills, ability to work in a fast-paced and hectic work environment, ability to prioritize tasks effectively; and an ability to work seamlessly across organizational boundaries.

• Must be flexible in outlook and attitude.

• Excellent Presentation skills and ability to present to senior management.

• Excellent planning/time management skills.

• Excellent client-facing skills.

• Very good understanding of the compromises between reliability, efficiency and cost.

• Candidate should possess an expert Knowledge in the following technical skills: Incident Response, Log Analysis, TCP/IP, Network Traffic Analysis, Antivirus/Malware, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Security Incident and Event Management Systems (SIEM), Packet Analysis Techniques, Event Correlation, and Incident Triage.

SOC Engineer Start Date

ASAP

SOC Engineer Assignment Length

6 months

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.