
Technical Specialist – Cybersecurity
Birlasoft
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: BIRLASOFT OFFICE • Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureDNSFirewallsJenkinsKafkaPythonSMTPSplunk
About the role
- The Security Analyst is responsible for independently managing third-party vulnerability data sources, executing scans using proprietary Sompo tools, and collaborating with IT teams to prioritize mitigation efforts.
- Analyze vulnerabilities from various sources and input them into the vulnerability management tool using approved methods to ensure a complete overview of exposures.
- Evaluate existing vulnerabilities to find problem areas or opportunities for mass-mitigation.
- Communicate with other teams to explain the opportunities or needs.
- Escalate vulnerabilities that have breached our time to resolve limits.
- Configure scanning tools and manage scan schedules.
- Collect a set of metrics and KPIs for our departmental use.
- Consider opportunities for AI to improve all of the above.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field is considered a plus, not mandatory.
- Strong familiarity and prior experience with HTTP, PKI and signatures encryption, SMTP, DNS, CWEs, CVEs, and other frameworks.
- Nessus, NMAP, ZAP, BurpSuite, Invicti, Nuclei or other scanning tools.
- Web application scanning and web application firewalls.
- Containers.
- CIS benchmarks, STIGs, or other security hardening standards.
- Additional desirable skills or experience: SAML, Kerberos, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP.
- Powershell and Python.
- Jenkins.
- Splunk data onboarding indexes, sourcetypes, data models, forwarders, apps, HECs.
- Azure event hubs, Kafka, syslog.
- Sentinel, Defender, Crowdstrike, or other EDRs.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working arrangements
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Hard skills
vulnerability managementweb application scanningHTTPPKISMTPDNSNessusNMAPPythonPowershell
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinking