Senior Security Operations (SecOps) Administrator

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Security Operations (SecOps) Administrator with Enterprise Management Operations Center (EMOC) experience to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/ Transportation Security Administration (TSA) customer.  This individual will provide leadership and technical expertise to support a 24x7 operations of engineers, Incident Management, Event Management, Request Fulfillment, ITSM Queue Management, Bridge Management actions for hybrid government infrastructure. 

 

This position requires 12-hour shifts including weekends and holidays.

 

Day to Day Work Responsibilities:

 

• Provide technical expertise to support operations of 24x7 Incident Management, Event Management, Security Management, Request Fulfillment, ITSM Queue Management, actions for hybrid government infrastructure.
• Monitoring, managing and triaging IT infrastructure and security systems to ensure operation, reporting of anomalies, call-out of engineering staff in coordination with Incident and Shift Managers and resolution of issues with physical and virtual datacenter environment.
• Maintaining knowledge and communicate status of the customer environments to include providing reports and updates as needed. Support security requests from agency security operations center.
• Providing support in the operations of a 24x7 Tier 2 monitoring and reporting of a government IT Infrastructure.
• Incident Management, Event Management, Request Fulfillment, ITSM Queue Management, Bridge Management, and networking, cloud, and datacenter operations.
• Monitoring, managing and triaging datacenter systems to ensure operation, reporting of anomalies, call-out of Tier 3 staff in coordination with Incident Manager and resolution of issues with physical and virtual datacenter environment.
• Maintaining knowledge and communicate status of the network, cloud, and datacenter environments.
• Executing the cyber security monitoring and response methodology in accordance with agency infrastructure program requirements.
• Coordinate with Cyber SOC to provide Cyber Security Monitoring and Response.
• Investigate network device and information security incidents to determine root cause and remediation efforts.
• Implement simple security related requests, such as URL blocks, updating whitelists, etc.
• Preparing documentation and briefings for leadership in a concise and effective manner.
• Identify, report, and react to security events.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

 

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years’ experience or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience or a High School diploma and 16 years of experience.
• U.S. Citizenship required; Must have the ability to obtain a DHS Entrance on Duty (EOD) clearance.
• Experience with triage datacenter incidents and network management.
• Active Directory account, server management and monitoring experience.
• Server Administration experience: (Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Linux (RHEL), SharePoint).
• Experience with MS SCOM and Solarwinds.
• Experience with enterprise/datacenter Service Desk Operations.
• COTS applications (Security Automation & Orchestration platforms, Splunk, etc.) understanding.
• Must be able to work 12 hour shifts including weekends and holidays.

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Security+ or equivalent certification.
• AWS or Azure fundamentals certification or experience.
• Networking certification (Network+, Cisco CCNA).
• Microsoft certifications in SCOM, Windows Server 2016 or later.
• A+ Certification.
• Service management tool: Remedy.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.