We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Network Security Analyst role.
This position requires the ability to perform moderately complex (journey-level) cybersecurity analysis work, essential for client to fulfill its mission of service to the citizens of Texas. Work involves protecting cybersecurity assets and delivering cybersecurity incident detection, incident response, threat assessment, cyber intelligence, software security, and vulnerability assessment services.
This position also requires analysis of cybersecurity threat indicators and their behaviors, and research and implement new security risk and threat mitigation strategies, tools, techniques, and solutions for the prevention, detection, containment, and correction of data security breaches; monitoring agency systems, reporting anomalous activity or malicious traffic, and perform cybersecurity incident detection, analysis, and prevention; assist in administration of security tools; and assisting in conducting vulnerability scans of networks and applications to assess effectiveness and identify weaknesses; assist in identifying and evaluating new cybersecurity technologies to identify and remediate vulnerabilities; and providing input on improving network, server, workstation and application security.
Skills(Required):
- Information security analysis work or related IT security work.
Skills(Preferred):
- Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in information technology security, information assurance, computer information systems, computer science, management information systems, or a related field is generally
- with a cybersecurity architecture and data flow documentation
- with a Vulnerability Management programs
- doing web application security scans/assessments
- with custom dashboards and/or configurations of SIEM tools
- With patching Windows based computers, using WSUS, SCCM or other tools/patch management programs.