Job Title: IT Security Analyst 3
Location: Dimondale, MI, 48821
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Client: State of Michigan
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.
Roles And Responsibilities
- 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.
Notes
Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week upon start.
Duration: 1 year with possible extension.
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.
- Interview Process: Onsite interviews to be held at the Dimondale office. (NO virtual interviews will be requested) Candidates submitted must be willing to attend a face-to-face interview.
- Candidates must be currently local within a commutable distance, no more than 1-1.5 hours. Manager is not interested in candidates who would need to relocate to accept the role. Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week upon start.
