Security Engineer - Independent Candidates

Company Description

It is a leading support company specialized in Staffing & Recruiting.

Pull Skill Technologies Inc. has the experience and resources to provide your organization with the best personnel to supplement your information technology needs.

Our highly experienced recruiters find qualified candidates quickly through state-of-the-art business practices. Networking and relationship building, proactive internet mining and constant refining of our database inventory give us the ability to respond to your needs rapidly and effectively.

Job Description

Job Title: Security Engineer

Location: Mid Atlantic, Travel from Philly, Baltimore, DC - Travel expense will be reimbursed.

50% Travel requirements - 2 weeks in a month

Duration: 2 years

Description:

Primary Purpose

The IT Sr Systems Engineer I position serves as a senior technical role within the IT department. It requires demonstrated experience of information technology, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively both independently, as a mentor and as part of a team. Candidate will possess the self-motivation, experience, and skills to serve by providing technical insights driving the design, implementation, and optimization of complex systems under the guidance of a Principal Engineer or Manager. Collaborates with IT architecture to define strategy and work with various teams to implement high quality systems to meet business requirements. Delivers and supports IT infrastructure, product and platform solutions. Designs and delivers complex IT system initiatives, to include cloud, non-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Influences other IT teams, leadership, enterprise business partners, vendors and project/design teams, in all aspects of the secure & reliable hosting of applications throughout Exelon's large & complex enterprise and real time operational environments.

Primary Duties and Accountabilities

• Leads discussions with business partners and vendors to gather information. Consults with leadership, architecture, project teams and end users to identify system requirements and perform feasibility analysis on potential changes related to existing and future security and technical architectures. Writes and disseminates system specifications, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans. Delivers practical, efficient, and cost-effective solutions that satisfy business needs, including hands-on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and supporting metrics for the same.
• Work closely with others to develop future plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Creates and delivers presentations to Engineering and Architecture Review Boards. Possesses deep understanding of current technologies and service offerings within the industry. Provides oversight for less experienced engineers
• Design, support and maintain custom system integration with other platforms, specific to the needs of the customers. Maintain relevancy and knowledge in current and evolving emerging IT systems technologies.
• Ensure all risks and issues are identified and are captured following set process and are actioned appropriately. Responsible to provide supporting data to leadership and peers.
• Maintains knowledge of and compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or function. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; participates in peer code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Networking 4 - 7 years' experience in IT infrastructure design, application design, cloud computing, disaster/recovery, or 6-9 years of relevant experience with system administration Demonstrated ability to design and document processes & procedures Experience transitioning work to operational teams Maintained experience with [insert a specialized technical skill set from appendix]. Demonstrated competence with business acumen within own discipline or function. Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal) Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with strong teamwork skills. Demonstrates ability to influence up down and across Drives innovation by leveraging alternative perspectives and emerging technologies to deliver creative solutions Demonstrated ability to deliver work aligning to project management principles & framework Demonstrated ability to provide financial impact analysis Troubleshooting & Monitoring: Solid understanding of the capabilities of standard monitoring tools. Can make informed decisions on monitoring settings such as sample size, level of criticality, and some self-healing opportunities. Cloud Technologies: Build and maintain knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities and assists in development of analysis of their use for business and/or IT clients Security Basics: Ability to evaluate a solution against current security requirements and future industry trends Scripting & Automation: Able to use PowerShell, Ansible, or another appropriate scripting tool to automate common tasks/create reports and troubleshoot issues with existing scripts.

Preferred Qualifications

Certifications such as NERC-CIP, FERC, AZ900 Deeper understanding of programming languages, and an ability to solve engineering problems of increasing difficulty. Shows initiative beyond pure implementation. Experience building highly scalable applications

Notes:

• 50% Travel requirements- 2 weeks in a month
• Monday to Thursday onsite- back-to-back 2 weeks.
• Different locations and utilities.
• Remote the other 2 weeks of the month.
• Their ADMS systems-Monark is Niche application-vendor will support issues
• Servers are Oracle Linux OS and some Windows OS as well
• Utility industry experience is a high preference- Operational IT, Scada, OMS

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.