Job Title: IT Security Analyst (Vulnerability Management)

Location: Dimondale, MI 48821

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid (in office 2 days a week)

Pay Rate: $60-60$/hr

Overview:

Tekwissen group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Description:

The Security Analyst position works as a member of the Vulnerability Management Team. The Senior Security Analyst position reviews and remediates cyber incidents and vulnerabilities found by IT level analysts to IT security specialists and managers to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Client data.

Technical Security Analyst performing duties related to the Vulnerability Management team.

• Plans, schedules, implements, and maintains scalable vulnerability scans using modern vulnerability management scanning tools for high complexity devices.
• While ensuring safe and timely scanning that has minimal/no impact on scan targets, provides troubleshooting of technical issues with scans.
• Supports vulnerability management scanning and reporting tools.
• Conducts internal vulnerability audits of servers, network devices, applications, and other devices.
• Interfaces with internal and external auditors, providing detailed information on remediation efforts.
• Creates integrations of vulnerability management data with other Client enterprise services.
• Conducts data analysis of vulnerability management data, often integrated with other data sources, to measure effectiveness of vulnerability remediation. Data analysis tasks includes large datasets, which include structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Interfaces with other agencies to make recommendations on how to improve the security posture and reduce the number of security related vulnerabilities.
• Conducts trend analysis, creates dashboards using data scripting to provide metrics on the performance of security responsibilities, controls, and creates new reports for management based on those collected metrics across multiple agencies.
• Escalates as appropriate.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

• 5 Years' IT Security Experience
• Experience with vulnerability management scanning and reporting tools.
• Experience with trend analysis and creating dashboards using data scripting to provide metrics on the performance.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.