TECHEAD is hiring: Security Engineer in Richmond

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Cybersecurity Engineer, Pen Testing | 20812

Contract -1 year

Remote - Meetings/testing on-site Richmond, VA

No C2C Candidates

Responsibilities and Requirements:

Pentest

• Testing: Performing remote or onsite tests on all systems, networks, and applications to identify security weaknesses
• Analyzing: Analyze the vulnerabilities and mitigation methods
• Reporting: Provide reports which include findings, risks, and conclusions
• Advising: Recommend security improvements and methods to mitigate security risks
• Collaborating: Working with IT to determine their testing requirements
• Creating: Creating and implementing new penetration testing methods, scripts, and tool

Splunk

Management of Data Collection Infrastructure

• Deployment Server management to distribute Splunk Universal Forwarder (UF) instances
• Syslog servers that collect data from infrastructure systems (firewalls, IDS, UPS or other syslog generating device)
• Splunk heavy forwarders which can collect information from various databases or third-party systems
• Splunk HTTP event collector to obtain data from custom applications (Java, .net, JavaScript, or other web apps), and
• When used, Splunk Stream to capture wire data and output raw or statistical information about the data.
• Re-architecture of Syslog aggregation for Splunk or extensive modification to Syslog configuration (configuring new storage, building for high availability, etc.)
• Expanding log source collection of an existing source type
• Custom script development (e.g., for data collection or integration to non-standard products)

Deployment Maturity

• Splunk Enterprise and application upgrades (to approved versions)
• Creating and modifying roles and user group associations
• Modifying indexes and retention policy
• On-boarding new data sources
• Installation and configuration of Splunk certified applications and Technology Add-ons (TA’s)
• Installing non-certified Splunk apps and add-ons (evaluated on case-by-case basis)
• Re-architecture of authentication into Splunk (LDAP connection, SSO, etc.)

License Management

• Evaluate largest consumers of data ingest within your organization
• Perform log value audits (in conjunction with your teams, evaluate logs and filter what is and is not necessary for security, compliance, and other stated use cases)
• - Reduces license usage on data sources, by reviewing data and events that have high analytics value versus low value or reducing duplicate logging
• -Allows capacity to be repurposed for other necessary analytics use cases

Health & Performance (including Splunk Cloud deployment)

• Deployment health checks & architecture reviews
• System Performance Tuning
• Troubleshooting issues within Splunk environment, including silent log source monitoring
• Providing answers to questions about Splunk
• Periodic review of
• Errors/warnings reported by internal Splunk logs Log normalization (CIM); monitoring to ensure nothing has changed (e.g., CIM compliant logs have not changed in structure).

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