IT Security Spec

IT SECURITY SPECIALIST

Jacksonville, Florida

Job Duties:

• Ensuring all users in the organization have the appropriate levels of access to applications, systems and data resources;
• Evaluating and maintaining procedures to safeguard information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction;
• Ensuring compliance with security regulations and laws;
• Recommending and implementing changes to enhance security controls and prevent unauthorized access;
• Executing role based implementation, role management, and access governance; implementing and managing the enterprise security support model for new applications;
• Monitoring systems, networks, servers, and databases for potential system breaches;
• Responding to alerts from information security tools;
• Promoting security awareness programs, assessing gaps and implementing solutions;
• Performing end-to-end completion of security requests;
• Providing user security roles and managing security groups across systems, platforms, databases, applications, servers, directors and folders;
• Analyzing existing role structures to improve and streamline structures, security administration and improve end-user experience;
• Employing highly sensitive security access for outsourced vendors and ensuring compliance with policy, regulations and contractual requirements;
• Executing highly sensitive emergency processes;
• Creating and maintaining application scripts and using application specific tools to create and manage application security;
• Tracking and documenting security issues and requests;
• Planning, coordinating, communicating, testing and implementing audits, ensuring that access entitlements are appropriate for job requirements;
• Creating and coordinating completion of detailed security reports to fulfill audit, management or business owner requirements;
• Interfacing with users to understand new capabilities, implement procedures, ensure security procedures have been communicated properly and are being followed;
• Providing input to drive process improvements;
• Working closely with business areas and IT partners on troubleshooting;
• Maintaining and creating operational procedures and maintaining security knowledge base;
• Performing system monitoring activities, identifying and evaluating security threats, breaches and vulnerabilities; responding to security alerts;
• Acting as liaison for internal and external audit requests and activities;
• Leading remedial activities as the result of audit findings;
• Defining scope of operational initiatives and adjusting priorities to support workload;
• Providing leadership and guidance to work teams and end users on security policies, standards and procedures and processes;
• Investigating business processes to understand and implement security requirements;
• Weighing business needs and security risks;
• Researching solutions, and working with vendors to enhance the Security Monitoring Program;
• Coordinating and documenting exceptions to security policy as directed by the Exception Governance Team; and
• Developing training content as needed.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering or technical field and 3 or more years of work experience in the job offered, or in an IT security analyst or related role or a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering or technical field and 1 or more years of work experience in the job offered, or in an IT security analyst or related role
• Experience with SDLC
• Experience with Information Security concepts, protocols, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements
• Experience with RACF
• Experience with Active Directory groups and user accounts, and Windows folder structures and folder security
• Experience with UNIX/Linux security and tools used to administer security
• Experience with LDAP groups and user accounts and tools used to administer security
• Experience with database security and tools used to administer security within the various databases including UDB, DB2, SQL and Oracle
• Experience with security management tools
• Experience with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
• Experience with Splunk Common Information Model (CIM)
• Experience creating dashboards, reports and visualizations in Splunk Enterprise Security

Qualified applicants may apply with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. by visiting www.floridablue.com.

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