POSITION SUMMARY
The IT Security Analyst plays a key role in safeguarding the organization's digital assets and ensuring information systems' confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In addition to monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security incidents and threats, the position oversees access control measures and manages permissions for the organization's corporate domain and applications. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the IT Security Analyst assesses risks, implements security controls, and ensures compliance with industry standards and regulations.
ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- User Account Management: Configure and manage user accounts, permissions, and access rights within the organization's IT systems, applications, and network resources.
- Access Control Inventory: Maintain a comprehensive inventory of all user permissions granted across various IT systems, applications, and network resources.
- Compliance Support: Support compliance efforts by ensuring user permissions management practices align with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal policies.
- Security Monitoring: Monitor security event logs, alerts, and notifications generated by security systems such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, and endpoint protection solutions.
- Incident Detection and Investigation: Detect, analyze, and investigate security incidents and anomalies identified through monitoring activities.
- Threat Intelligence: Utilize threat intelligence feeds to stay ahead of emerging threats and provide actionable recommendations for risk mitigation strategies.
- Security Controls Implementation: Support implementing security controls, policies, and procedures.
- Remediation Planning: Assist in implementing remediation plans based on findings from various security assessments.
- Risk Mitigation: Based on data analysis, research, and emerging technologies, provide recommendations for mitigating information security risks and improving security controls.
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with team members to solve security-related issues and improve overall security posture.
- Other Responsibilities: Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 2-4 years of hands-on experience in IT Security roles.
- Experience with security tools such as SIEM, Firewalls, Endpoint Protection Solutions, and permission management.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry. (preferred)
LICENSURE / CERTIFICATION
- Technical certifications such as Security+, CySA+, Network+ or equivalent are preferred.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to provide effective technical support and collaborate with stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- Strong, structured, process-driven, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrate skills in building relationships within departments and between departments.
- Good research skills.
Knowledge:
- Familiarity with IT Security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, CIS Controls)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Access, and Microsoft Outlook.
- Excellent knowledge of Customer Service best practices.
- Strong knowledge of computer hardware, software, and networking principles.
- Technical research and development knowledge are desired.
- Fluency in spoken and written Spanish and English.
Abilities:
- Understand existing and emerging technologies.
- Understand business practices, approaches, organization, politics, and culture.
- Demonstrate ability to work under pressure with compressed deadlines and multiple deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely to leadership.
- Ability to work well as a member of a team or alone.
- Willingness to take ownership of problems and follow through to completion.
- Ability to prioritize and manage time.
- Arrive at work promptly and consistently.
- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS
- The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, stand, and walk.
- The position requires that the weight be lifted, and force is exerted up to 50 pounds.
- Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. Require evening or weekend work.
PharmPix is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Minorities / Females / Disable / Veterans
