Description
Description
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is seeking a Security Systems Administrator to join our team supporting a major state & local government customer. The Security Systems Administrator is responsible for the deployment, management, and maintenance of security systems and infrastructure. This role involves monitoring security measures, responding to security incidents, and ensuring compliance with security policies and standards. The Security Administrator plays a key role in protecting the organization's information assets and maintaining a secure computing environment. This position reports to the Technical Director.
Essential duties of this position include:
- Deploy, configure, and maintain security systems including firewalls, EDR/XDR, NDR, IDS/IPS, and SIEM systems.
- Implements application and data migration techniques and tools for efficient solutions to meet business needs, including present and future capacity and security requirements.
- Addresses a wide range of security issues including architectures, SIEM, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
- Researches, evaluates, and recommends new security tools, techniques, and technologies, integrating them into the enterprise in alignment with IT security strategy.
- Applies expert engineering knowledge of enterprise IT and security solutions to design, develop, and/or implement solutions consistent with enterprise architecture security policies.
- Supports full-spectrum cyberspace operations.
- Writes detailed technical reports on assessments, mitigations, and remediations performed.
- Translates and authors technical documentation in layman's terms to ensure understanding of the work performed and its outcomes.
- Encapsulates very specialized and advanced cybersecurity work.
Qualifications
Required Education and Qualifications:
- BS Degree and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and 0 years related experience
- Frequent use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
- Ability to receive assignments in the form of objectives and establish goals to meet outlined objectives.
- Work reviewed by supervisor/lead to measure meeting objectives.
- Directs established guidelines, procedures, and policies.
- Candidates must be able to pass a CJIS Criminal Justice background investigation and maintain CJIS clearance throughout employment term.
Required Experience:
- Providing solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity, requiring a review of a variety of factors.
- Working under general direction on routine work, with potential for detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.
- Following established procedures and work reviewed for soundness of technical judgment, overall adequacy, and accuracy.
- Exercising judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Preferred Experience:
- Vendor certifications or security certifications preferred
- ITIL v4 certification preferred (Foundation or above)
- Contributing to completion of milestones associated with specific projects.
- Ensuring decisions or recommendations do not cause delays in program schedules or require the allocation of additional resources.
- Primarily interacting with internal company contacts.
- Handling infrequent inter-organizational and outside customer contacts on routine matters.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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