Information Systems Engineer - Windows (Vulnerability Management)

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SAS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Team is a service organization responsible for providing IT support for our full spectrum of SAS Solutions to Infrastructure & Platform Services. Additionally, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team works with other SAS IT teams to improve our service catalog offerings to our customers including helping to implement next generation technologies. As an Engineer in the SAS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team, you will use your communication and technical skills to support internal and external customers in our hosted & internal environment.  You will help design, implement, and support a large heterogeneous computing environment.  You will be responsible for helping to maintain Service Level Agreements and Operational Level Agreements, and improve the performance, reliability, and standardization of our hosted & internal solutions. This specific request is for a Microsoft Windows Information Systems Engineer

Responsibilities would include:

• To provide overall Windows based delivery support for the hosting environment, including direct support for hosting customer escalations.
• Complete Windows Server Administration Delivery Requests
• To improve our time to delivery for service catalog/service offerings.
• Server Admin tasks – setting configuration tweaks, attaching storage, OS level configurations, etc
• Server builds
• Loading and configuring software
• Complete Tech Debt refreshes
• Complete Security updates
• Complete IP Allow-listing tasks
• Complete migrations of servers (physical and virtual) and applications to both the new Cary Windows Server and Microsoft Azure
• Instance and environment decommissions
• RDP Gateway installations and configurations
• URL Externalizations
• To work with the Compliance team for audit evidence, CIS benchmarks, and other compliance requirements for our regulated hosting environments
• To work with Azure APIs for automation/integration of standard, supported services
• Work with and configure Red Hat Satellite for deployments and management

Experience: 3-6 Years

Job Requirements:

• 3 years of related experience in Vulnerability management and compliance monitoring.
• Demonstrated experience in Vulnerability management and analysis.
• Strong understanding of Tenable IO and Security Center product line.
• Participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation schedule

Responsibilities:

• Review vulnerability data from multiple sources to determine the risk rating of vulnerabilities to business assets.
• Improve and automate the existing vulnerability management lifecycle, including data ingestion & normalization, compliance metrics, and detections on assets.
• Provide technical support for vulnerability management projects.
• Perform recurring and on-demand scanning activities of both corporate and cloud environments utilizing an enterprise platform.
• Ensure that scan results are presented in appropriate dashboards, reports, and forwarded to other data systems as necessary.
• Nice to have an understanding of or experience with the Tanium product line.

Technology/Vendor experience if possible:

• Microsoft Windows Server experience
• Microsoft Azure deployment of Windows based systems and RDP gateways
• Tanium
• AWS background is helpful but not required
• VMWare
• K8S and Docker experience helpful but not required

Preferences

• Collaborative team experience with superior problem-solving skills
• Ability to triage requests with multiple admin resource groups
• Understanding best practices around information security and data privacy in relation to system access and availability
• Experience with DevOps tools will be an added advantage

Why SAS

We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.  

Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn’t about fitting into our culture, it’s about adding to it - and we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring.

SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.