Vulnerability Remediation Analyst

Job Title: Vulnerability Remediation Analyst

Location: La Verne, CA (Near to Los Angles) Hybrid Project

Employment Type: Contract

Client: Mphasis/ IEHP (Inland Empire Health Plan)

Job Description:

Looking for VA remediation candidates with minimum of total 8+ years of experience in conducting vulnerability assessment and remediation against windows as part of a team. Should be able to serve as a trusted advisor in helping customers with relevant decisions based on the findings of the reports and dashboards.

Technical Skills:

Must have 6-8+ years of experience in VA remediation

Candidate should had worked in infrastructure remediation work.

Doing due diligence of vulnerability

Prepare high level project schedule

Prioritize and categorize remediation task

Co-ordinate with stake holders to prepare remediation schedule

Prepare low level project schedule

Monitor and validate remediation success

Raise exceptions if required

Progress reporting

False positive validation

Monitor and validate remediation success

Raise exceptions if required

Presenting reports to client and taking signoffs

ITIL Foundation Certified is desirable.

At least 8+ years of experience in an IT role, ideally within a professional services environment

Experience working with MS Servers and Vulnerability management.

Should be able to remediate the findings which come up in scanning using scanning tools

Coordinate with apps team further to mitigate as well as closure on the same

Self-starter personality and excellent verbal and written communication skills (English) and experience in working in multi-cultural environment.

Customer centric approach, and comfortable picking up the phone to talk with end users.

Worked in Windows servers trouble shooting and vulnerability management.

Experience working in ITSM tool like ServiceNow, BMC Remedy

Should be flexible to work in US time zone on site in customer location

Persistence to ensure deliverables are completed successfully

An ability to clearly communicate to both business and IT audiences

Windows 2012 through 2019 Security Knowledge/ Experience

Windows 7,10,11 Security Knowledge/ Experience

Good Written & Verbal Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Roles and Responsibilities

Provide vulnerability remediation support

To perform detailed analysis and troubleshooting of VA report received and identifying vulnerabilities from tools (Qualys/ Tenable) (if present) and coordinate with end users, application owners, value steam owners either via tickets or by phone/Teams to remediate vulnerabilities.

Interact and closely work with Information Security teams.

Investigative with a curious mindset

Coordinate with 3rd line support team, Architects, suppliers, etc.

To be able to follow and report status to stake holders and management

Ability to recommend and implement Windows Hardening on workstations and servers.

Own the Windows Patching either internal SCCM or WSUS for Business.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college/university and 4+ Years of relevant work experience

AZ 500 and MS 500 Certification will be added advantage.

Should have packaging knowledge in SCCM

Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated

Influencing customers and other business partners with a high degree of autonomy, energy, enthusiasm, flexibility, and the drive to ensure a phenomenal customer experience

Building deep relationships with executives and technical leads within customer organizations

Establishing technical and business credibility with senior executives and grow mind share with highly strategic customers and partners

Affinity to produce high quality documentation of processes and procedures for the usage of the toolset

Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills

Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment

Innovative self-starter with a passion to help teams using creativity to solve problems.

Collaborative work ethic working in a fast-paced environment

Understanding of the IT and system development life cycle

Ability to interact effectively with various levels within the organization

Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills

Pays attention to team needs and pivots his/ her approaches accordingly to support the delivery of business value