What are the responsibilities and job description for the SECURITY ANALYST position at Fulton County, GA?
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field required; supplemented by two (2) years of security management experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.
Specific License or Certification Preferred: CISSP, MCSE, CCNA, Comp TIA Security , GIAC Security Essentials, CERT
Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must have knowledge of computers and electronics, telecommunications, strong authentication technologies, network security management tools and protocols including firewalls, DNS, DMZ, and VPN, SSI. Basic understanding of incident response planning. Strong analytical, diagnosis, and collaboration skills. Critical thinking, reading comprehension and complex problem solving.
Examination:
The examination will consist of an evaluation of education and experience, accomplished by analysis of the application. Application must document that the applicant possesses the minimum knowledge, skills, education and experience as listed to be rated as qualified. If selected, an official, accredited college transcript is required, at time of employment, for all degrees/course work used to qualify for this position.
ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED IN FULL BEFORE THEY ARE SUBMITTED. PLEASE REVIEW ALL APPLICATIONS FOR ACCURACY AND MAKE ALL CORRECTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTAL BECAUSE ERRORS CAN RESULT IN NOT MEETING THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.
Purpose of Classification:
The purpose of the Security Analyst is to test, implement, and monitor security systems/devices used to protect Fulton County's information, assets, and systems.
Essential Functions:
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Follows technical security procedures and protocols and ensures that protocols are communicated with all users of County IT assets and is easily accessible and maintains awareness of security practices or trends and works with Infrastructure and IT Security teams to determine their applicability and effectiveness.
Work with Security Engineer during periodic security reviews/audits to ensure security measures are functioning properly and continue to meet security policies and serve as the first line of response in the case of security breaches and infractions, escalate issues immediately to the Security Engineers and work with them to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Monitors and analyzes network traffic and works to identify intrusions, or security breaches, and performs penetration tests to detect system intrusions and ensures authorized access to all systems by investigating improper access, reporting violations, and reviewing information requests.
Occasionally provide on-call support for off-hour security breaches, system monitoring, and other security incidents and works with Department stakeholders, Infrastructure teams, and IT leadership to implement a practical, scalable, and secure model for County applications, networks, and services.
Works with appropriate personnel to create a practical, scalable, and secure model for enterprise applications, networks, and services and works with IT Security and Risk team to implement and maintain effective disaster recovery plans, processes, and procedures for critical County applications.
Consults with other County departments and agencies: reports on information technology; provides technical information, advice and direction.
Strong analytical skills using data to support strategic decisions; Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with all areas of the business; Proven strategic leadership skills managing a cross-functional team; Skilled in project methodologies and operational execution while maintaining a sense of urgency.
Ability to function independently and display proactive initiative; Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously; Ability to foster a team environment to create collaborative and positive relationships.
Operates or uses various equipment and supplies in order to complete work assignments: operates a personal computer to enter, retrieve, review or modify data, utilizing word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, Internet, e-mail, or other software; and operates general office or other equipment as necessary to complete essential functions.
Communicates with, supervisor, other employees, clients, third party service contractors, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems.
Additional Functions:
Performs other related duties as required.
Performance Aptitudes:
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit; includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of equipment and machinery, requiring the monitoring, adjustment, regulation, and/or setting of multiple conditions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.
It is the policy of Fulton County that there will be equal opportunity for every citizen, employee and applicant, based upon merit without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetics, disability or sexual orientation.
