Description
The Information Security Analyst in this contract position will provide technical leadership in support of implementing, maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting a broad range of security infrastructure for our client corporation.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitor, analyze, and interpret security/system logs for events and incidents reflective of unauthorized access or operational irregularities and escalate for action as appropriate
- Responsible for account creation, shared folder setup, password resets and general account maintenance activities
- Actively assist corporate teams in the development of secure business solutions
- Work on multiple projects as a team member
- Provide support security incident response as required
- Monitor security advisories and ensure security updates, patches and preventive measures are in place throughout the relevant computing environments
- Perform technical IT security risk assessments
- Analyze audit findings and make recommendations to lower security risks to acceptable levels
- Ensure that security changes comply with company change management policies and procedures
- Establish and enforce operating system and application hardening standards with the Server System Engineers
- Establish, maintain and monitor mechanisms to ensure protection against malware on company computing systems
- Provide support to the support service team as needed.
- Automate security processes and tasks to achieve efficiencies and/or improved accuracy
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum of 5 years of technical IT experience, including 2+ as an Information Security Analyst
- Strong background working with security technologies: Firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning and remediation, security log management, network traffic analysis, privilege management
- Strong understanding of LAN, WAN, and wireless communications and protocols
- Strong knowledge of Windows operating systems
- Must be able to juggle priorities and operate with little ongoing supervision
- Must have excellent teamwork skills
- Occasional non-standard work shift may be required
- Position requires scheduling flexibility to support on-call work assignments and off hours security incident handling