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100% Remote Our direct client has an opening for a Security Specialist (809183). This contract is 10 months to start. Client is in Columbus, OH • Network Security and threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management Required 10 Years. • Hands-on experience administering Qualys, remediation documentation and patch management processes Required 10 Years. • Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration. Required 10 Years. • Experience with Vulnerability scan reports and remediation tracking, risk assessment and compliance documentation Highly desired. • Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of DRC data, systems, and networks. • Responding to all system and/or network security breaches. • Design and maintain enterprise SCCM/MECM patching strategies for Windows endpoints and supported server environments. • Create and manage SCCM device collections, deployment groups, maintenance windows, software update groups, and deployment schedules. • Coordinate vulnerability information from Qualys with SCCM patching data to identify vulnerable systems requiring remediation. • Perform vulnerability-first remediation by identifying affected assets and determining the appropriate patch, configuration change, software upgrade, or compensating control. • Analyze patch compliance, deployment status, failed installations, pending reboots, missing updates, and non-reporting devices. • Manage Software Update Points (SUP), WSUS synchronization, software update groups, deployment packages, and Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs). • Troubleshoot SCCM client installation, client health, policy retrieval, software update scanning, deployment evaluation, and content download failures. • Develop procedures for emergency patch deployment when critical or actively exploited vulnerabilities require accelerated remediation. • Package and deploy third-party application updates and security fixes where Microsoft updates do not provide remediation. • Create and maintain SCCM operational runbooks, patching procedures, troubleshooting guides, deployment standards, and rollback procedures. • Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities • Evaluating the organization’s security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly • Taking appropriate security measures to ensure that DRC’s infrastructure and existing data are kept safe • Perform scheduled and ad-hoc vulnerability scans across networks, servers and endpoints. • Work with server, endpoint, security, network, and application teams to resolve cross-platform remediation dependencies. • Tune scans and reduce false positives to improve data accuracy. • Develop vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reports. • Conducting testing and scans to identify any vulnerabilities in the network and system.