Southern New Hampshire University ยท 11 hours ago
Information Security Analyst II
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$91K/yr - $146K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
You will be the initial triage point for all security-related tickets that come into the team's multiple queues (including triage, containment, and remediation).
You will understand the basic incident response lifecycle and have the analytical mindset needed when it comes to triage and investigations.
You will excel at documentation and detailed notetaking, including SOP writing, incident reporting, email and instant messaging etiquette, and most importantly, documenting incident actions.
You will collect and analyze log data from complex, virtualized, multi-site computing environments spanning SNHU's technology ecosystem.
You will conduct real-time monitoring of security events from multiple sources and use analytical and problem-solving skills to identify, triage, analyze, investigate, and escalate information security events and alerts.
You will analyze digital evidence to identify indicators of compromise, adversary activity, root cause, incident timelines, and attack vector(s).
You will perform incident response activities like endpoint isolation, malware remediation, forensic analysis, malware analysis, community member interviews, and network traffic analysis.
You will investigate complex and/or high severity security threats or incidents and escalate, when appropriate to leadership.
You will coordinate information security incident response in alignment with SNHU's Information Security Incident Response Plan.
You will communicate with partners, in a non-technical manner, at all organizational levels as part of incident response and remediation activities.
You will design and implement or monitor information security incident remediation plans.
You will design, configure, deploy, and manage security tools (e.g. Splunk, Halcyon, Microsoft Defender, Tenable).
You will design, deploy, and manage detections and alerts for specific or common threat conditions.
You will design and implement standard operational processes for handling common incident types.
You will develop and maintain automation scripts and other tools to enhance security operations effectiveness.
You will have familiarity with enterprise security tools like Splunk, Tenable, Proofpoint, Microsoft Defender components, Office 365 tools, PowerShell, and Tenable.
You will demonstrate a deep source of ethics, integrity, and confidentiality.
You will remain calm and function at the highest level during a crisis.
You will remain up to date on latest threat intelligence.
You will develop strategies and solutions that improve or mitigate the risks associated with these threats.
You will work cross-functionally across ITS and all SNHU departments.
You will provide customer support in alignment with SNHU's Core Values and understand how and when to escalate potential issues.
You will assist with risk management, vulnerability management, security assessment, auditing, and security authorization programs, as directed by the university's Information Security Management team.
You will provide coaching/mentoring to junior analysts.
Other responsibilities as assigned. Job responsibilities can change at any time, with or without notice.
Qualification
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Required
5+ years of experience in information technology.
2+ years working in a security operations center (SOC), a cybersecurity operations center or on a cybersecurity incident response team.
Bachelor's degree in information technology, data analytics, information assurance, computer science, or related field.
Professional Certification(s): ISC2 CISSP Certification, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, CompTIA, Security+, GSEC, or other relevant industry certification.
Experience collecting, organizing, and analyzing data gathered from SIEM, IPS, NAC, vulnerability scanners, Windows/Linux operating system logs, network scanners, log aggregation tools, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools, and other platforms in the environment that ensure enterprise-wide security monitoring.
Preferred
Experience with vulnerability management and incident response and activities.
Experience with Powershell
Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Benefits
High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance
Low to no-cost dental and vision plans
5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)
Employer-funded retirement
Free tuition program
Parental leave
Mental health and wellbeing resources
Company
Southern New Hampshire University
At SNHU, we believe education is a basic human right and that we must serve learners for whom college is not a guarantee.
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