Job Description
Job Description
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst supporting our HHS HRSA customer onsite. HRSA is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.
6-month Contract to hire - 1 step Interview Process - USC - EST Times - Preferred To already have Public Trust clearance Fully on-site at HRSA HQ in Rockville, MD
THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION
Responsibilities:
- As a Sr. Cyber Security Analyst with hands-on ZScaler experience, you will work with the existing Cyber Security Team to provide guidance, installation, implementation and support of existing and new infrastructure.
- Will perform minor and major ruleset upgrades, as needed.
- Develop and deliver stock and adhoc ZIA reporting, as requested.
- Help with technical support in Change Management processes that directly impact production environment.
- Document and adhere to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Responding to requests and incidents within the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Work with Program and Project management throughout the period of performance.
- Attend team and customer meetings.
- Provide training to the government, and their successors, on details of the administration, maintenance, support and operational use of the solution.
- Participates in special projects, as needed.
- Resolve technical problems that occur and on-call support for non-business hours.
- Report daily at the customer location (this is an onsite position).
- Provide Weekly and on-demand Status Reports on work performed.
Required Skills:
- Associates degree in a related STEM field or equivalent experience and at least 3 years of Cyber Security experience.
- Must have hands on experience with Zscaler
- 2+ years of experience in large-scale enterprise environment
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a MBI/T2 level clearance
- Foundational networking and DNS skills
- Experience with routing, network forwarding, and traffic inspection
- ZIA, ZPA, ZDX configuration and policy setup
- Familiarity with log forwarding protocols (Syslog, GRE/IPSec tunnels, etc.)
- Comfortable with static IP configuration, NAT, and subnetting
- Ability to work with private Service Edges, App Connectors, and ZTNA policies
- Exposure to firewall policies, proxy chaining, and PAC file management
- Application development from ZPA
- Okta, CyberArk, Splunk integration
- Troubleshooting connectivity and latency issues across distributed architectures
- Working knowledge of SSL inspection, VPN integration, MFA, and identity providers
- Familiar with ServiceNow (SNOW) for working on requests and incident tickets.
Desired Skills:
- ZScaler or Security+ Certified
- Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and MS Teams.
- Experience with MS Teams Planner, ServiceNow and/or JIRA
- Experience with any HHS agencies or entities
- Demonstrated strong technical skills and analytic abilities, as well as experience performing system security analysis and risk management.
- Demonstrated experience performing complex technical tasks with minimal direction.
- Demonstrated experience in translating an understanding of systems and applications into test plans and perform hands on testing.
- Possesses experience with communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to stakeholders.
- Possess a broad knowledge of ZScaler best practices, policies and guidance.
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