As a member of the Computer Security Incident Response Team, the employee will be responsible for conducting security related analysis on activities pertaining to threats, events and security incidents. The activities of the Sr. Administrator include, but are not limited to: monitoring, analyzing, assessing, interpreting, tracking and facilitating security events/incidents. As a Sr. Administrator, the employee will keep abreast of emerging threats and security related events to assist the security team manage risk. In addition, the Sr. Administrator will perform system administration duties on security solutions managed by the Enterprise Security team. A successful candidate will have experience in large enterprise security operations that ideally includes: enterprise logging solutions, operating intrusion detection or penetration, perimeter security, and vulnerability management solutions. Duties and Responsibilities: * Install, configure, and maintain technical security systems to support business processing requirements * Provide Level 2 and 3 technical security supports, assist in the evaluation of new products and services, and may manage vendor service level agreements * Install and troubleshoot systems to ensure functional objectives of the business are met * Implement and maintain system management software, as well as research, analyze, and implement software patches and hardware modifications to resolve deficiencies * Perform capacity and resource planning by assessing risks and developing contingency plans * Maintain production change control schedule and, when needed, assist in the change control * Support and schedule operating systems installations and upgrades, as well as layered software packages, in accordance with established IT policies and procedures * Assist with the configuration and maintenance of physical and logical components Education: * Four (4) year degree or equivalent experience * (ISC) 2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent experience * GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC) or equivalent experience Experience: * Prior experience supporting IT operations or IT Security operations * Cleared resource, 4 - 7 years of relevant IT Security experience Skills: * Must Have * Knowledge and proficiency in TCP/IP protocol * Knowledge of security vulnerability concepts - Viruses, Hoaxes/Phishing, XSS, Buffer overflows, Hacking, Backdoors, Rootkits, Patch Mgt and Hardening, * Knowledge of networking - routers, switches, perimeter security devices * Knowledge of DNS & DHCP Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States of America without sponsorship. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Candidates must also be capable of performing the following: * Monitor, analyze, and tune the technical system to achieve optimal performance levels * Ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines * Develop and maintain a comprehensive technical system configuration and database library of all supporting documentation * Develops business cases and gains basic understanding of project and operational budgeting * Schedules, installs, upgrade and maintain operating systems and software * Assists development team with modeling, physical design and application tuning * Assists in the recommendation of strategies for data center and infrastructure management from business continuity, disaster recovery, monitoring, storage, security * Routinely audits hardware and software to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, procedures, and configuration guidelines * Implements and use backup and restore techniques