The Opportunity to Make a Difference You will work directly with our customers across America to ensure they have a positive experience in understanding their life and annuity policies with our client.  You will empower customers by providing information, help to solve important issues and collaborate with the team to reach our full potential and achieve results.  Ultimately, you will be an active and engaged member of a team dedicated to bringing peace of mind to all we serve. Successful Candidates We’re Seeking

• You possess an Associate’s degree or higher
• You have 2+ years of professional work experience interacting with customers
• You are passionate about working for a company with a cause-driven culture

The Skills to Succeed

• You are great with people.
• You enjoy delighting customers with exceptional service
• You are an excellent communicator, with strong listening skills
• You are strong with solving problems and working in a collaborative environment
• You are great at multi-tasking in a fast paced environment and are computer savvy (web searches, MS Office and Mainframes)
• You have a knack for seeing how things can be done more efficiently and effectively, and are open to continuous improvement and change

What You’ll Find at our client

• Competitive pay and outstanding health, wellness, and insurance benefits
• Genuine opportunities for growth and career advancement
• Over $5K in annual tuition reimbursement, including full tuition sponsorship for completing your undergraduate and graduate degrees with Ashford University
• Paid time off and holidays
• 40 hours of community service hours annually
• Flexible hours between 8am - 8pm ET and options to work part-time
• A culture committed to inclusion and diversity

Salary: Note: If the candidate is selected for this position, then the client has an option to either hire you on a full-time basis, or it can be a 6 months contract to hire position.

• $15-$20/hourly on 1099 (Contract to hire) with no benefits - the client can also hire you full-time anytime during the contract period.
• $40k - 45k Annual salary (Direct hire or conversion - Full-time) with benefits.

 

Location: Plano, Texas Description A security consultant with infrastructure, security, and architecture experience to work with the Client Project Development team and act as a communication nexus with the client Infrastructure and Security team. The goal of this engagement is to maintain forward momentum on approvals, inquiries, and follow up actions necessary for successful project delivery. Engagement tasks will include:

• Catalog risks based on design reviews
• Conduct initial security design review of proposed infrastructure
• Develop recommendations to improve confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and critical data
• Conduct ongoing reviews of project from a security perspective, to identify emerging issues and track compliance towards recommendations
• Adhere to all compliance and regulatory requirements such as NYDFS, HIPAA, CCPA and others where applicable.
• Ensure architectural design adheres to industry standards and best practices such as NIST/ISO/CIS/CSA
• Evaluate incoming technical requests between the client Security and client Infrastructure teams
• Validate and clarify requests to determine if sufficient information has been submitted for an appropriate client Leadership decision to be made
• Communicate concerns or potential risk to client leadership
• Facilitate communication between teams to maintain task momentum
• Technical oversight and project management in support of security consulting services

For the length of this project, the consultant’s guidance will be focused on the following areas: Principle of “Default Deny”

• Host-to-host and server-to-server communications
• Developer access (separation of duties)
• Secure configuration and implementation guidance for various technologies including Linux, Mongo, Hadoop, Talend, SQL, Mongo Atlas, Splunk, Azure cloud, and others as needed
• Logging, monitoring, alerting, and audit trails Identity and access management
• Patching and vulnerability management Compliance (NYDFS, HIPAA, CCPA, and others as needed)
• Client data encryption (at rest and in transit) Validation of security controls that have been implemented

Salary: 

• 100k to 130k (Full-time)

This role is hands-on and technical. You will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the team for all matters Cloud and Container Security respective to Vulnerability & Attack Surface Management. Primary responsibilities include

• Managing, maintaining, and supporting our Container Security Vulnerability tool(s) to include managing the output and working hands-on with the DevOps and Infrastructure teams to drive remediation
• Supporting the building, production, and maintenance of metrics associated with the container security program
• Guiding development teams in best practices across all stages of the SDLC
• Monitoring and responding to Open Source Software weaknesses and exposures Building a very close working relationship with DevOps, cloud engineering, application development, and QA teams.
• Performing research and develop whitepapers/presentations/etc. regarding application security
• Developing and updating security patterns & user stories aligned with the security requirement

Qualifications Required Skills/Experience:

• 5 years of strong applicable security experience
• Solid understanding of Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift
• Hands-on experience with Agile, DevOps and DevSecOps methodologies is a plus
• Assist in developing an automated framework for Security Tool deployment and development, leveraging various scripting languages and open source solutions
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code Experience moving to a DevOps / DevSecOps environment
• Experience with agile development and CI/CD pipelines Experience with container/orchestration tools
• Recent experience with enterprise configuration management software like Red Hat Ansible Automation, Puppet, or Chef
• Hands on experience AWS / Windows / Linux Security
• Highly proficient in at least one major scripting/programming language (Python, Ruby, Node, Java, R, Go…) Proficient in shell scripting (Bash, PowerShell…)
• Deep understanding of container security tools, and experience with products such as Rapid7.
• Ability to present complex, technical information to a variety of audiences, both technical and nontechnical, in written and/or oral formats
• Working knowledge of common security frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001:2013, SOC 2, HiTrust, etc.
• Knowledge of insurance industry-specific regulations such as NY-DFS.
• Industry certifications like the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), etc. are a plus

Salary: 

• 110k to 135k (Full-time)