What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Professional position at Analog Photonics?
IT Professional
Overview
Analog Photonics is a Boston based technology company with expertise in advanced, large-scale and high-performance photonic and electronic application-specific integrated circuits. We specialize in the development of photonic circuits for customers worldwide in growing markets such as automotive, industrial, consumer, medical and defense, among others.
Analog Photonics has developed a portfolio of state-of-the-art silicon photonics-based products. These devices are fabricated in a 300mm CMOS foundry using a proprietary photonics platform that is optimized for low cost, high reliability and high yield. This family of products serves markets such as optical sensing, fiber communication, free-space communication, medical applications and much more.
Join our team if you are:
- interested in working in a fast-growing early-stage startup
- enthusiastic about disruptive silicon photonics technology
- a team player being able to work in a dynamic environment
Responsibilities
Analog Photonics is seeking talented and motivated individuals to lead the IT infrastructure at our company. The company is currently 30 employees with a predominance of Windows 10 laptops/desktops, and also Macs and Red Hat Linux servers. The company is has government contracts requiring NIST-800 compliance.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Duties include the following:
- Access control: maintaining an Acceptable Use policy and creating appropriate limits on account access
- User security awareness: organize yearly training for cybersecurity awareness
- Auditing: establish a clear auditing procedure and schedule
- Configuration management: document the network and maintain hardware and software inventories; ensure all software is regularly patched
- Identification and authorization: maintain clear password policies and multifactor authentication as appropriate
- Incident response: organize annual incident response test, annual incident response training for users, and schedule reviews of logs to detect compromise
- Maintenance: maintain a maintenance schedule for all systems, and document with a maintenance log
- Media protection: Ensure that sensitive media is properly stored/encrypted and marked, maintain full system backups
- Personnel: Work with HR on account creation, and maintain clear personnel exit procedures
- Physical security: Review physical access, ensure employees at alternative work sites (such as private residences) have mechanisms to communicate security incidents
- Risk assessment: organize annual Security Risk Assessment including vulnerability scanning, with documentation
- Security assessment: organize annual Security Assessment with associated documentation, manage real-time network monitoring tool
- System and Information Integrity: monitor vulnerability disclosures/advisories regularly and ensure systems are patched systems as appropriate; maintain anti-virus software
- System and Communication Protection: review firewalls and review event logging, maintain encryptions/VPN used for remote traffic
- Manage the supervision of necessary consultants and contractors to meet the above tasks
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- BS in IT and/or cybersecurity
- Experience with Linux/UNIX patching
- Experience with NIST-800 compliance
- Good teamworking and communication skills
