Job Offer - Junior Security Engineer

northmania

Hi,

Today I got an offer for Junior Endpoint Security Engineer. My question is should I accept the job role or wait for another security job to pop. Currently I am working as a Service Desk Engineer. I have CCENT and currently studying for ICND2, and Comptia Security+.

Is this a good way to break into information security. Please compare the requirements for both junior and senior role, and please tell if this is a great skill set to obtain and learn.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support Analyses and troubleshoot issues connected to Endpoint Security products – AV, DLP, Encryption, HIPS
• Incident Management (ensuring all alerts, issues are accurately logged, reported and escalated appropriately)
• Performs health-checks

There is also a job offer for a Senior Endpoint Security Engineer from the same company and you can see the requriements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.
• Support Analyses and troubleshoot escalated issues from lower tier engineers, connected to Endpoint Security products – AV, DLP, Encryption, HIPS, etc.
• Incident Management (ensuring all alerts/issues are accurately logged, reported and escalated appropriately)
• Performs health-checks and audits on customers’ security solutions.
• Performs remote implementations/installations and post-installation tasks for different security solutions.
• On-site consultancy jobs – requires travelling to customers in UK and Europe periodically.
• Pre-sales jobs – advising and interacting with the end customer on security solutions
• Administrating and maintaining customers’ security products
•Support of security solutions, product management, upgrades and reporting for both on-prem and cloud solutions
•Recommends and implements security policies and procedures as a result of in depth research of potential harmful threats to the organization's IT infrastructure.
•Provide coordination for security event detection, identification and resolution.
•Develop technical security standards to support policies including assisting in creating and coordinating security monitoring standards and incident investigation procedures.

scaredoftests

Of course it is.