It Security Analyst Jobs

Please send your resume in WORD format should you be interested in the following IT Security Analyst position. This is a full-time, direct-hire position with a salary range of $100K - $115K with awesome benefits. If you are not interested in this position, please pass onto colleagues/associates as we do offer referral fees should they be hired.

Job Title: IT Security Analyst

Location: Ft. Mill (Charlotte area), SC/ Minneapolis, MN (parent company Two Harbors is located)/ Dallas, TX

Work Environment: 100% REMOTE right now with Hybrid required in the future

Degree Required: Bachelors Degree – REQUIRED

Salary: 100-$115K

Term: Full-time

Referral Fee: $500 - Refer qualified colleague, friends, or family.

Position Summary

Information Security Engineer/Analyst will monitor and manage security controls and threat protection, manage identity and access, and protect data, applications, and networks as part of end-to-end infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engineer and implement new cloud security tools to feed our DevOps/SecOps processes to ensure the solvency of cloud compute resources.
• Actively assess existing implementations, identifying security issues and prioritizing fixes.
• Understand system security vulnerabilities and associated threats, and assess the overall security risks to the system.
• Perform system vulnerability scanning using approved software tools and ability to automate.
• Thoroughly understand software installations, systems monitoring and troubleshooting, account management, and overall efforts to minimize system downtime.
• Serve as the interface to governance, compliance, and risk management teams to ensure the system consistently meets the requirements for certification and accreditation.
• Identify and define system security baselines and system requirements.
• Provide mitigation recommendations to reduce identified security risks.
• Monitor and recommend improvements; Perform optimization and tuning, as well as ongoing capacity monitoring
• Develop security monitoring use cases and supporting content for security tools (e.g. dashboards, alerts, reports, rules
• Provide daily, ongoing security oversight of SecOps operations, to include the security impact of proposed modifications, additions, and technology implementation/refresh operations.
• Participate in designing and managing IT Security strategy including both infrastructure and applications.
• Implement and monitor security measures for the protection of computer systems, networks and information.
• Work directly with internal IT staff and customer to establish and enforce IT security best practices, protection objectives, process improvements and effective IT security controls.
• Assist with projects involving cloud, operating systems, applications, and database and security issues and requirements.

Qualifications

Required:

• Knowledge of networking architecture, operations, security, automation and orchestration.
• Experience with security operations
• Experience implementing platform protection
• Experience in cloud technology
• Experience with identity and access
• Familiar with baseline hardening methodology and standards.
• Possess clear understanding of security protocols and standards and have experience with security architectures.
• Experience and understanding of security tools (Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Protection).
• 3-5 years’ experience as a Security Engineer supporting Windows-based environments.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Information Technology or other related discipline preferred.
• Proven ability to secure data and applications