Senior System Administrator
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a System Administrator for their Vancouver, Washington location. This position will perform systems analysis, interface with users to support functional requirements development, analysis of tools and techniques to support the development, troubleshooting, analysis, performance monitoring, and improvement of systems used by the Operations functions. This position will also provide Cyber Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) and conduct vulnerability scanning services as well as provide CVA Data Call response(s).
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior System Administrator:
- Control Center Cyber Vulnerability Scanning:
- Define, identify, and classify the security holes (vulnerabilities) in a computer, network, or communications infrastructure.
- Interact with business units to discover, triage, and resolve security vulnerabilities with manual and automated tools to enforce security criteria as part of a Secure Development Life Cycle on a continuous basis.
- Research and investigate new and emerging vulnerabilities.
- Analyze vulnerabilities to appropriately characterize threats and provide remediation recommendations.
- Forecast the effectiveness of proposed countermeasures and evaluate their actual effectiveness after they are put into use.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments using tools such as NMAP, Nessus, or other related tools.
- Operate and analyze results of open-source security tools and vulnerability scanners including Wireshark, ngrep, nmap, and Snort:
- Vulnerability Scanning:
- Configure vulnerability assessment tools, as well as perform scans, research, and analyze vulnerabilities, identify relevant threats, corrective action recommendations, summarize, and report out results.
- Identify critical flaws in applications and systems that cyber attackers could exploit.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments for networks, applications, and operating systems.
- Use automated tools (e.g. Nessus) to pinpoint vulnerabilities and reduce time-consuming tasks.
- Use manual testing techniques and methods to gain a better understanding of the environment to reduce false negatives.
- Develop, test, and modify custom scripts and applications for vulnerability testing.
- Manually validate report findings to reduce false positives.
- Compile and track vulnerabilities over time for metrics purposes.
- Write and present comprehensive Vulnerability Assessments on new systems.
- Review and define requirements for information security solutions.
- Supply hands-on training to network and system administrators of the vulnerability scanning program.
- Develop and maintain a vulnerability assessment database.
- Perform trend and analysis of vulnerability scan data.
- Report out on repeat high vulnerabilities to the communications unit monthly.
Key requirements for Senior System Administrator:
- U.S. Citizenship and valid U.S. Driver’s License is required.
- A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred.
- 8 years of experience is required with an applicable associate or bachelor’s degree.
- 10 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree or with no degree.
- 2 years of experience with the following:
- Classes of vulnerabilities, appropriate remediation, and industry standard classification schemes (CVE, CVSS, CPE).
- Linux and Windows operating systems, including common programming or scripting languages.
- Devising methods to automate testing activities and streamline testing processes.
- Knowledge of patching programs of major hardware/software manufacturers. Knowledge of secure configuration and hardening of systems.
- Knowledge of methods for on-going evaluation of the effectiveness and applicability of information security controls (e.g., vulnerability testing, and assessment tools).
- Knowledge of security vulnerabilities, application analysis, and protocol analysis.
- Knowledge of network topology, communication protocols, firewalls, proxies, and IDS systems to affectively configure scanning software.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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