Systems Specialist

The County of San Mateo’s Information Services Department seeks an IS Systems Specialist III to serve in the Security Division. Under general supervision, the individual in this position performs the most complex and varied technical tasks related to the configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of the County’s security infrastructure. This position serves as a technical leader and technical subject matter expert in specific security area(s) and is called upon to analyze existing and future computing environments and ensure that all solutions comply with County policy, frameworks and industry accepted best practices.

As an integral part of the Security team, the IS System Specialist III will be responsible for system administration across a variety of platforms and services:

• Firewalls (Palo Alto)
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention (Palo Alto Threat Prevention and Wildfire)
• Endpoint Protection Suite/XDR
• Security Orchestration Platform (XSOAR)
• Cloud Security services
• XDR SIEM monitoring and management
• Vulnerability identification and mitigation/remediation

The position also requires support in ancillary systems that support IAM/ARM platforms such as Solar Winds, Active Directory, OKTA. Additionally, this position will perform intrusion event investigative and reporting activities as required. Similarly, incumbents in this class must regularly analyze requests for new system implementations and ensure that strategies are applied that support best practice security design and integration with existing security infrastructure.

Furthermore, this position will be tasked with performing analysis and data production and reporting in support of any identified indicators of compromise, audit and policy compliance across the enterprise.