Mainframe Security Analyst

Summary

Leidos is an industry and technology company serving government and commercial customers with digital and mission innovations. The Mainframe Security Analyst will support a government mainframe environment for a large multi-agency health care claims processing system, focusing on RACF, identity management, access controls, audits, security updates, and operational reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining mainframe RACF environment and monitoring security access patterns
• Creating and deleting user accounts on various mainframe systems
• Confirming that the proper permissions are in place to restrict access to sensitive data
• Work with the Infrastructure Services provider to insure that security updates are rolled out to various mainframe environments
• Serve as primary point of contact for researching making to corrections to mainframe security and access related questions
• Provide regular reporting on production and UAT security and identity management related processing issues
• Perform user and security audits of the mainframe RACF environment on a regular basis
• Potential ability to work on-call shifts to support batch processing and monitoring

Skills

• BS degree and 4 years of experience. Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree
• Experience analyzing government mainframe systems
• Experience managing mainframe user accounts and security environment for a large government agency supporting Medical claims processing and a common workload file (CWF)
• Expertise with IBM RACF and Vanguard Security tools
• Expertise with mainframe and host based security
• Experience with audit and the security review process for RACF
• Able to utilize Incident ticket system to open, resolve, close tickets and Service Requests
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and a high level of focus and attention to detail
• Strong work ethic with good time management with the ability to work with diverse teams and lead meetings
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
• All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered

Qualifications

Must Haves

• BS degree and 4 years of experience. Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree
• Experience analyzing government mainframe systems
• Experience managing mainframe user accounts and security environment for a large government agency supporting Medical claims processing and a common workload file (CWF)
• Expertise with IBM RACF and Vanguard Security tools
• Expertise with mainframe and host based security
• Experience with audit and the security review process for RACF
• Able to utilize Incident ticket system to open, resolve, close tickets and Service Requests
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and a high level of focus and attention to detail
• Strong work ethic with good time management with the ability to work with diverse teams and lead meetings
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
• All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement
• Remote work