Security Analyst (Remote)

We have an immediate need for a contract Security Analyst to join a public research university in Southern California. The Security Analyst will manage substantial work within the overall security program, demonstrating project management skills, gathering business requirements, creating supporting plans, and coordinating all aspects of their work for on-time delivery or escalating issues to management as needed.

Location: Remote working Pacific hours

This job expects to pay about $65 - 71 per hour plus benefits.

What You Will Do: 

• Maintaining Inventory of Information Systems: Keep an updated inventory of all unit information systems.
• Conducting Risk Assessments: Perform risk assessments of information systems on a priority basis according to existing controls in the unit information security policy.
• Developing Risk Mitigation Strategies: Maintain a risk log from the security risk assessments. Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and actions on a priority basis.
• Coordinating with Stakeholders: Plan and monitor interactions with a broad group of stakeholders for conducting risk assessments and implementing mitigation actions. Provide regular status reports on program progress and follow up with related issues and impediments.
• Project Management: Demonstrate critical project management skills. Gather business requirements, create supporting plans, and coordinate all aspects of work for on-time delivery. Escalate issues to management as needed.
• Implementing Information Security Policies: Implement COMPANY Information security policies and ensure adherence to them.

What Gets You The Job: 

• 5+ years of IT security or information security experience with a proven ability to engage with Senior Management and regulators
• 2+ years of experience in administering IT security controls in an organization
• 2+ years of experience with security incident response in a SOC or Security Operations role
• Must have 2+ years of experience with networking security technologies to include but not limited Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks
• Knowledge of technical infrastructure, networks, databases and systems in relation to IT Security and IT Risk
• Experience with implementing and/or supporting the processes for the following security technologies are preferred: logging and monitoring (SIEM and Cloud Access Security Broker); endpoint security (EDR, AntiVirus, DLP and host compliance); network security (NDR, IPS/IDS, traditional 5 tuple firewalls, next-gen firewalls, cloud security group, User Behavioral Analysts); data protection (encryption/decryption, HSM, KMS, DLP); Azure/AWS cloud services and infrastructure; and IS-3

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