Cyber Security Analyst
Job Description
- Assists with planning, implementing, and tuning the Department’s Managed Security Services, Security Information and Events Management (SIEM), and vulnerability management.
- Supports NextGen Firewall security tools and maintains the site block list.
- Supports and maintains endpoint detection and response and antivirus software functionality on servers and client systems.
- Monitors Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for information security threats and advises or participates in response actions.
- Acts as a member of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT).
- Supports administration of secure messaging and second-factor authentication capabilities.
- Develops and maintains technical specifications, standards, procedures, and systems documentation.
- Analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves antivirus software issues with minimal impact on users.
- Researches and recommends appropriate technical solutions to meet functional requirements.
- Provides recommendations for possible process improvements within the Department’s information security team.
- Works independently or as a team member on multiple IT security projects and occasionally as a project leader.
- Works on large, complex security issues or projects that require increased skill in multiple IT functional areas.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields is required. Relevant experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis when applicable.
- Five (5) or more years of server or network administration experience.
- Three (3) or more years of information security administration experience in an enterprise environment with 1,000 or more users.
- Three (3) or more years of SIEM experience.
- Three (3) or more years of vulnerability management experience.
- Knowledge of security issues, techniques, and implications across all existing computer platforms;
- Experience maintaining and supporting third-party antivirus applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Three (3) or more years of experience administering Splunk or similar SIEM.
- One (1) or more years of experience using Microsoft Defender products.
- One (1) or more years of experience working with IDS/IPS.
- One (1) or more years of experience using Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
- Preparing status reports and providing management briefings.
- Knowledge of IT standards in a criminal justice environment.
- Responding to security threats in a criminal justice environment.