IT Cyber Security Analyst

IT Cyber Security Analyst

Compensation: $75,000-$95,000

In-office requirement: 3 days per week (local candidates only)

Target start date: ASAP

Contract duration: 12-month contract with possibility to extend

Contract to hire: No

U.S. Citizenship and/or Green Card: Required

Summary

Cyber Security Analyst

Position Description: This role is part of our IT operational team that supports the manufacturing

domain activities and is a functional leader of the cyber security team within our operational

manufacturing and engineering domain.

• Responsible for following and ensuring routine security patching and endpoint protection is completed monthly; this includes tracking site progress and escalating when needed
• Facilitate and manage urgent security vulnerabilities and communicate to senior management
• Monitor team ServiceNow queues and resolve incidents and requests for the AME zone
• Responsible for driving continuous improvement actions
• Responsible for creating and updating the various IT dashboards (Excel and visual views)
• Participate in 24 x 7 on-call rotation with operational team (~4 weeks per year)

Qualifications:

• Operational IT work experience (4+ years), including focus and experience in cyber security
• IT Professional with IT BS degree preferred
• Cyber Security certifications (COMPTIA Security +, CISSP, etc.) preferred
• Ability to lead and facilitate the AME zone cyber security team
• Quality-oriented with high attention to detail
• Experience with these tools or similar tools – WSUS, Active Directory, Kibana, OCS Inventory, Symantec, Microsoft Defender
• Knowledge of operating systems – Windows, Linux
• Ability to create visual dashboards in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Ability to collaborate with various development and infrastructure teams, including IT locally and globally, building strong working relationships with the site managers
• Ability to facilitate meetings, including sending out meeting minutes and actions
• Team player who can work autonomously and is self-motivated to deliver quality results in a timely manner
• Ability to ask good questions to ensure full understanding of business impact and urgency of major incidents
• Strong knowledge and experience with IT basic collaboration tools, including MS M365 suite of applications
• Application development and infrastructure-related experience a plus