[Hiring] IT Security Administrator @Sourcefit

Role Description

The IT Security Administrator is responsible for safeguarding the organization's information assets by monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security threats across a wide range of security tools and platforms. This role plays a critical part in maintaining situational awareness, investigating security alerts, managing reported suspicious emails, and ensuring systems remain compliant with security standards and best practices. Working closely with the Senior Manager of IT Security and other cross-functional teams, the IT Security Administrator supports daily security operations, contributes to incident response activities, assists with security awareness training, and helps enhance the company's overall security posture. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, technically skilled, and committed to upholding high standards of integrity and data protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber/IT Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of IT security and system administration-related work experience or equivalency.
• Involved in the implementation of security software systems, applications, and related products.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), including Entra ID Protection, configuring and auditing Conditional Access policies, managing modern authentication methods (MFA, passwordless, FIDO2), and enforcing identity governance.
• Software management best practices and troubleshooting experience.
• Working knowledge of policies, procedures, and protocols of a Security Operations Center.
• Demonstrated knowledge of applicable practices and laws relating to data privacy and protection.
• Basic knowledge of multiple security technologies such as SIEM, Intrusion Detection Systems, Endpoint security, Web Proxy/Content Filtering, Active Directory, PKI, Radius, Log Analysis, etc.

Requirements

• Monitor the security tools implemented including but not limited to, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Microsoft Defender, Tanium, Adaptive, Tenable, Office 365, Entra ID, and computer log files, etc., to maintain situational awareness.
• Investigate security alerts received by the external SOC (Security Operations Center) to determine if the alert is a false positive, a security event, an actual attack, and/or a security incident.
• Utilize our enterprise vulnerability management platform to continuously assess, monitor, and coordinate the remediation of security vulnerabilities discovered across corporate endpoints, web applications, cloud environments, and internal networks.
• Escalate any security incident to the IT Security Leadership and Director of IT Operations.
• Investigate all reported suspicious emails and determine whether the email is malicious, non-malicious, or legitimate.
• Utilize the company security awareness and testing application to deploy periodic IT Security Training to all users.
• Concentrated effort to keep software and hardware on up-to-date security levels and patches.
• Maintain situational awareness and keep current with cyber security news and threat actor Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Research, condense, and report on security bulletins and publicly identified threats.
• Assist coworkers where necessary, including onboarding, training, investigations, reports, etc.
• Assist in performing technical assessments of information security incidents and provide necessary reporting and remediation actions.
• Adhere to and enforce security policies, procedures, and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new and enhanced security measures that meet the needs of the company, clients, and end-users.

Benefits

• Work from home.
• Schedule: Monday to Friday | 8 AM - 5 PM PH Time.
• Holiday: Will follow US holidays.

Other Characteristics

• Attention to detail and ability to use initiative.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team while maintaining high ethical standards of integrity and quality.
• Good analytical thinker with problem-solving skills capable of visualizing solutions.
• Customer-oriented with patience in assisting users and proactive in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products using documentation and internet resources.
• Dependable, reliable, and flexible with excellent time management skills.
• Maintain high ethical standards regarding data integrity and data security.
• Good communication skills, able to communicate via various methods including electronic, in person, or via telephone.
• Ability to consistently exhibit Supernus Values in interactions with employees at all levels of the organization, vendors, and others.
• Capable of performing other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by Management.