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Service Engineer 3

Redmond, WA 98052

Posted: 02/01/2024 Employment Type: Contract Department: Core Technologies - Contract, Microsoft, VMS Job Number: 28318 Industry: SOFT - Software Companies

Job Description

Position Title: Service Engineer 3

Position Description: Protingent has an exciting contract opportunity for a Service Engineer 3 located in Redmond, WA working 100% remotely.

Job Description: This team is looking for a talented Service Engineer to work closely with cloud and security experts to investigate threats, proactively hunt for compromise, identify bugs, report misconfigurations, improve and automate processes, develop security tooling and data automation, and contribute your experience and expertise to countless other projects that enhance the security of our organization. You will be a part of defending our environment while focused on identifying new attacks, coordinating response, and investigating issues.

Job Responsibilities:
  • The purpose of this team is to create security alerts for suspicious activity from malicious or insider threat, and monitoring for IT infrastructure help.
  • The role will be made up of attending standup, reviewing the alerts that occurred over the night, answering any questions, clarification on alerts. After standup, investigating new alerts, emailing customers about misconfigurations. Usually in the latter half of the day there are less alerts so work on creating a new detection or hunting for threats.
  • The resource will be responsible for expanding the organization that is developing new hardware and software projects. As a result there will be an ever changing attack surface and new threats assessed and detections created.
  • Create security alerts for suspicious activity from malicious or insider threat, and monitoring for IT infrastructure help
  • Review security alerts, edit existing detections, perform investigation on suspected vulnerable or compromised assets and services, and analyze log data and other artifacts to determine what occurred
  • Assess threats to cloud resources and machines, identify potential issues with detection, analyze potential or actual intrusions, and create detections based on available data
  • Plan and execute proactive adversary hunt for malicious activity using myriad log sources, network- and host-based tools, and threat intelligence to identify the threat actors and their tools and techniques
  • Proactively identify and investigate potential issues in controls (network, identity, etc.). Leverage expertise and team members to address and drive down issues accordingly. Identify and/or recognize patterns and recommend potential mitigation strategies

Required Job Qualifications:
  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in the field
  • 5-7 years’ experience with work in networking or security or IT helpdesk or software in a testing, debugging or contributor role
  • 5-7 years’ experience with data analysis (joining tables, statistics, working with arrays, lists, JSON)
  • 5-7 years’ experience with identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within the environment
  • 3+ years of experience in Incident Response, IT helpdesk, software development lifecycle, cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP) and cyber security OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology.
  • 1+ years of experience with big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel OR 1+ years of experience working with large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages like: SQL, KQL, Jupyter Notebook, Spark, Azure Synapse, R, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI.

Preferred Qualifications:  
  • Knowledge of common security, encryption, and protocols such as encryption, PKI, modern authentication and cloud app authorization architectures and protocols such as SAML or OAUTH.
  • Virtual networking, peering, private endpoints, REST.
  • Practical OS security/internals knowledge for Windows and/or Linux.
  • Exposure to security related subjects and trends such as digital forensics, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and malware analysis.
  • Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including O365, Azure, Windows, or other Microsoft software/services.
  • The ideal resume would have an investigative mindset and will dig into why something is reflecting in logs and document it.
  • Candidates should have specific examples of how the candidate’s impact from the experiences listed on their resume prepared them for this role.
Job Details:
  • Job Type - Contract hire
  • Location:  100% Remote
  • Pay Range: $63-$79.50/hr. DOE
  • An offer of employment is contingent on successfully passing a background check, and applicants who do not successfully pass a background check will not be considered for employment.
  •  ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
     

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
 

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