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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sr. Security Engineer
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2005-10-21
The Company
Postini, Inc. is the leading provider of email security and management
solutions for the enterprise. Postini protects the email communications
infrastructure by providing comprehensive email intrusion prevention that
prevents spam, viruses and SMTP attacks from ever reaching the enterprise
gateway.
Postini's patented managed services model utilizes preEMPT technology to
eliminate spam and viruses, stop Denial of Service and Directory Harvest
Attacks, safeguard content, enforce security policy compliance and improve
email performance.
Postini Perimeter Manager secures the email boundary and enables enterprises to
significantly reduce the cost and complexity of IT operations, minimize risk
and improve productivity. Founded in 1999, Postini processes more than 3
billion email messages per week with more than 30,000 businesses served.
Responsibilities:
- Defining the security systems administration process, you will
fulfill all requests to engineer and implement changes to various security
services components including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, virus
scanning and prevention systems, authentication and access control systems,
audit trail management systems, and various other security related functions.
- Monitor all security event sources (audit logs and real-time events
generated by security systems) for potential malicious activities including
conducting rudimentary attack verification and, if appropriate, initiate the
CIRT process.
- Provide 2nd and 3rd level problem resolution and troubleshooting
support for a number of security services components.
- Assess the risk and policy adherence of every security system change
request related to production security services.
- Use process management tools to track information about security
systems administration requests and security events.
- Participate in all process development activities focused on Security
System Administration and Security Event Monitoring processes.
- Author security system specific operations and management
documentation including as-build service configuration documents and operations
and management procedure documents.
- Develop software as needed to integrate various systems such as
employee information from Oracle Financials to automatically provision new and
terminated employees from accounts, access, etc.
- Understanding and developing security architectures to provide
division of responsibilities as well as separation of layers of infrastructure
as well as understanding database security from an access and application level
perspective.
- Distributed and transparent/automatic encryption of file systems,
files, logging, databases, etc.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Required knowledge:
- Sun Solaris Sparc, Sun Solaris X86
- RedHat Linux
- MS Windows 2003/XP
- Apache
- Cisco IOS ACL, Cisco/Arrowpoint Load Balancers
- TCP/IP protocol suite including routing protocols (OSPF, RIP, etc.)
- RSA ACE Server
- Single Sign On Experience
- Strong PKI Experience
- Strong Perl abilities meaning authoring from scratch tools to
automated and integrate disparate systems for information and automate security
processes
- Must have successfully been a key player in Certification Processes
such as WebTrust, SAS 70 Type II, BS 17799, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.
You should posses a strong understanding of the various open source tools to
harden networks and systems as well as knowledge of tools that will clearly
show vulnerabilities.
Experience Required:
- Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 8 years of experience
in security system administration and security monitoring work.
- Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills.
- Proven customer interface management and customer service skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage a large number of complex security
system change requests while ensuring a high degree of work quality.
- Current experience with cutting edge and current technologies in a
heterogeneous environment.
- Proven experience in balancing security needs and implementation
methods with business requirements and job functions needing to do their work.
- Past experienced with proven and successful methodologies of full
audit trail and tracking systems.
Compensation:
A strong compensation package consisting of salary, equity and attractive
benefits awaits you.
CONTACT
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How to Apply
All resumes and/or questions must be directed to our HR Department by one of
the following methods: cacareers@postini.com; or 650-482-3118. No Relocation.
Principals only. Visit us at www.postini.com
Postini, Inc
Ron Jorgensen
Sr Technical Recruiter
cacareers@postini.com
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