Prestigious Fortune 500 Company, located in downtown Chicago, is currently seeking a Information Security and Application Specialist. Candidate will be designing, implementing, and updating the security in support of enterprise information security policies & standards. Provides solutions to resolve gaps in security; provides architecture and infrastructure guidance for applications, operating systems and networks. Candidate will have expertise in developing conceptual, logical, and technical security architecture artifacts, knowledge of a variety of hardware and software security capabilities and features, and an ability to resolve security and non-security requirement conflicts.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) 4 years hands-on experience in technical security control architecture, design, information security solution engineering, security service delivery role.
2) 4 years experience in security engineering, including security testing and evaluation, requirements, logical and physical architecture design.
3) Knowledge of service-oriented architecture concepts;
4) Security Event Management [SIEM, SEM, SIM] solutions from the requirements/design to implementation phases of the development.
5) Ability to collaborate with team leads, clients, engineers, and developers to appropriately translate functional needs into technical security requirements
6) In depth hands-on experience in complex enterprise architectures lock downs
7) knowledge of the Inner workings and security aspects of variety of Application Servers, Web Servers, Media/Content Servers, Messaging Servers, Database Servers, Integration Servers, etc.
8) Effective oral and written communication skills
9)Technical writing, documentation development, process mapping, and visual communication skills
10) Experience in a wide variety/multiple technologies, including:

Development languages: C, C++, C#, Java, UML, XML, XSLT, applied in Object Oriented (OO) n-tier application development environment;
Application frameworks and their built-in security services & API*s: J2EE, Web Sphere, COM+, .NET, or others;
General application security API*s and protocols: GSS-API, MS CryptoAPI, PAM, Kerberos, DCE Security Service, SSL/TLS, SAML, S/MIME, PKCS API*s, or others;
Application authentication & authorization systems: Netegrity SiteMinder, RSA ClearTrust, Entrust GetAccess, Oblix NetPoint, or others;

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
1) Advanced degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
2) Expertise with systems and solutions based on ArcSight line of products or other logging products
3) Experience in managed healthcare, insurance industry or within financial services industry (Insurance, Banking, Investments)
4)Implementation of SIEM, SIM, SEM, UTM, ENTERPRISE Security Operations Tools, forensic identification, correlation / consolidation / aggregation, Log Management
5)Manual code review, reverse engineering abilities are highly desirable.