Description

• Strong background as a systems engineer, systems administrator, or infrastructure engineer.
• At least 2 years of direct cyber security experience for all job levels.
• At least 5 years of practical cyber security experience is strongly preferred for senior-level candidates.
• Hands-on vulnerability remediation experience in enterprise environments.
• Able to interpret scan results and translate them into actionable remediation steps for technical teams.
• Comfortable working with Windows or Linux environments.
• Can engage deeply with system engineers, network engineers, and business units on how to bring systems into a secure state.
• Experience with Tenable or Nessus is highly desirable.
• Azure experience is a plus.
• VMware is a relevant skill for the role.

Must Have

• professionals who can take vulnerability findings and work with engineering teams to remediate them.
• Bringing in one level 4 resource to alleviate the gaps in their Cyber pillars below:
• (ideally all 4 but at least 2-3 is required)
• Incident management
• Vulnerability management
• PAM, Privileged Access Management
• Cyber Sec Policies

Do NOT Want

• Do not focus on SOC analysts.
• Do not focus on recent graduates.
• Do not focus on candidates whose background is primarily government information assurance, IAO, IAM, ISM, or similar compliance/policy work.
• Do not focus on auditors or compliance professionals.
• NERC CIP experience is not required.
• They are not looking for policy-heavy, audit-heavy, or entry-level cyber profiles.

Screening Questions

• What is your IT cyber security experience?
• What is your vulnerability remediation security experience? Please explain in depth.
• Have you taken a report that shows known vulnerabilities and remediated those vulnerabilities?
• Are you hands-on from a threat hunting standpoint, or are you more focused on building cyber policy?
• What is your Privileged Access Management experience
• What is your experience with system administration or server administration?
• What is your networking engineering experience

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree