IT Operations Vulnerability Mgmt Analyst I – IT CURA on behalf of a client – Pasadena, CA

Client is a large Bank (approx $30 Billion in Assets), providing career path development opportunities while serving a growing and profitable market.
Job Description:
As a valuable member of the client organization duties (not limited to) will include:

• Investigate the best method to apply security changes to remediate vulnerabilities for
• applications, network devices, servers, and desktops
• Apply/Enforce changes through GPOs, patch management, Policy/Procedure enforcement,
• or manual intervention
• Investigate new and emerging security vulnerabilities from vendors and RSS feeds
• Research implication of security vulnerabilities
• Maintain security posture through constant security scanning and validations
• Work with IT/Business SMEs to schedule and apply changes throughout the environment
• Provide regularly scheduled status reports and updates on projects

Qualifications/Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience utilizing Patch Management software to apply security updates/patches for Microsoft and 3rd party products such as Adobe, Java and Apache, LANDESK experience preferred
• Work experience with Vulnerability Assessment tools: Nessus, Qualys, Foundstone, Nexpose, Metasploit
• Work experience deploying certificates manually on various platforms (Apache, Java, IIS) or through automated methods such as Digicert, MSCA or Venafi.
• Work experience with identifying security threats, and following procedures to remediate identified threats
• Work experience with Network Assessment tools: NMAP, Nipper, Wireshark, TCPdump
• Linux and Windows Administration Skills (Intermediate)
• Database Administration (1 year, SQL, Oracle)
• Infrastructure Architecture and Design Knowledge (2 years)
• Networking Protocol Skills (Intermediate)
• Cisco/Juniper network device experience preferred
• Core router and switch experience
• IOS upgrades
• Router and Switch configuration experience
• CCNA minimum (or equivalent experience)
• Coping Skills for Stress and Pressure Situations (Intermediate)
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Industry experience with financial institutions preferred

Job Type: Full-time

Required education:

Required experience:

• IT Configuration Management: 2 years
• Infrastructure Architecture: 2 years
• IT Security: 2 years
• Patch Management: 3 years
• Security Patching: 2 years
• Database Administration: 1 year