Bloomberg

IT Security Specialist

Bloomberg$100K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in network security, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.
  • Hands-on experience with Qualys platform for vulnerability management and remediation documentation.
  • 10 years of Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration expertise.
  • Experience with vulnerability scan reports and tracking remediation processes is highly desired.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, implement, and manage security measures for protecting DRC's data and infrastructure.
  • Respond to system and network security breaches effectively and promptly.
  • Design and maintain robust patching strategies for Windows endpoints and server environments using SCCM.
  • Analyze and troubleshoot SCCM client installations and patch deployment issues.
  • Coordinate with teams to remediate identified vulnerabilities based on scan results.
  • Develop emergency patch deployment procedures for critical vulnerabilities.
  • Create operational runbooks and troubleshooting guides for SCCM practices.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote work flexibility.
Full Job Description
Remote

Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of DRC data, systems, and networks

Responding to all system and/or network security breaches
Design and maintain enterprise SCCM/MECM patching strategies for Windows endpoints and supported server environments.
Create and manage SCCM device collections, deployment groups, maintenance windows, software update groups, and deployment schedules.
Coordinate vulnerability information from Qualys with SCCM patching data to identify vulnerable systems requiring remediation.
Perform vulnerability-first remediation by identifying affected assets and determining the appropriate patch, configuration change, software upgrade, or compensating control.
Analyze patch compliance, deployment status, failed installations, pending reboots, missing updates, and non-reporting devices.
Manage Software Update Points (SUP), WSUS synchronization, software update groups, deployment packages, and Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs).
Troubleshoot SCCM client installation, client health, policy retrieval, software update scanning, deployment evaluation, and content download failures.
Develop procedures for emergency patch deployment when critical or actively exploited vulnerabilities require accelerated remediation.
Package and deploy third-party application updates and security fixes where Microsoft updates do not provide remediation.
Create and maintain SCCM operational runbooks, patching procedures, troubleshooting guides, deployment standards, and rollback procedures.
Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities
Evaluating the organization's security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly
Taking appropriate security measures to ensure that DRC's infrastructure and existing data are kept safe
Perform scheduled and ad-hoc vulnerability scans across networks, servers and endpoints.
Work with server, endpoint, security, network, and application teams to resolve cross-platform remediation dependencies.
Tune scans and reduce false positives to improve data accuracy
Develop vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reports
Conducting testing and scans to identify any vulnerabilities in the network and system

Skill - Required / Desired - Amount of Experience
Network Security and threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management - Required - 10 Years
Hands-on experience administering Qualys, remediation documentation and patch management processes - Required - 10 Years
Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration. - Required - 10 Years
Experience with Vulnerability scan reports and remediation tracking, risk assessment and compliance documentation - Highly desired

Notes:
Position is full-time remote.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service (Bloomberg News), a global television network (Bloomberg Television), digital websites, a radio station (WBBR), subscription-only newsletters, and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, and Bloomberg Pursuits.
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