What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Analyst position at MARS IT?
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Note: Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to the Madison area at the candidate's expense prior to starting the role. This position will be onsite a minimum of two days per week.
Project Description:
- Under the general guidance of the IT Operations Manager, this position is responsible for growing and operating the agency's IT Security Program.
- The Security Analyst is expected to be familiar with a wide variety of IT security concepts, practices, and technologies.
- The position serves as an expert resource and relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- This includes providing advanced analysis to manage the security design, implementation, monitoring, and incident response related to networks, servers, storage, applications, databases, and endpoints.
- The position will lead projects to implement new security controls and technologies.
- The position will also assist with the creation of policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
- This position may lead and direct the work of others.
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Qualifications:
- Administer CrowdStrike
- Administer Tenable
- Perform IT security risk assessments. Develop, recommend, and implement remediation strategies.
- Research vendor offerings and conduct proof of concepts.
- Coordinate with other teams to implement new technologies and remediate issues.
- Monitor asset inventory, installed agents, and status of devices.
- Review vulnerability dashboards and organizational impact of changing threat landscape.
- Monitor data inventories, policy violations. Produce reports and metrics.
- Author policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines related to IT security and compliance.
- Monitor and process incident response queues.
- Manage endpoint firewall operation and adjust as necessary.
- Work independently as well as within a team environment.
Top Skills & Years of Experience:
8 or more years of experience in the following:
- IT Security 8 to 10 years
- CrowdStrike administration expert knowledge
- Tenable administration expert knowledge
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
Nice to have skills:
- CISSP or equivalent 1 year
- Security risk assessment.
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