Cybersecurity Analyst

Overview

The Cybersecurity Analyst role is part of the Cybersecurity Business Engagement group within client's Digital Risk organization. Reporting to the Business Cybersecurity Leader for Corporate Functions, this position will support critical next-gen program delivery teams by ensuring that implementations align with our security policies, standards, patterns, and design requirements. The role involves direct collaboration across multiple teams, management levels, disciplines, technologies, and business groups to ensure secure delivery.

Responsibilities

• Project Support: Provide support for key project and program delivery teams, ensuring timely and efficient assistance to project teams.
• Implementation Review: Review implementation alignment with the client security policies, standards, patterns, and requirements for specific programs/projects.
• Control Design Evidence: Review evidence of control designs being implemented to ensure they meet security requirements.
• Security Configuration Standards: Assist in developing and maintaining security configuration standards for systems and business applications related to specific programs/projects.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with Program teams, other IT and Infrastructure teams, and teams within Digital Risk to provide security expertise and oversight for specific programs/projects.
• Project Participation: Participate in technical and non-technical projects requiring information security oversight to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborative Security Solutions and Improvements: Work closely with functional SMEs to recommend new security solutions and propose effective improvements to existing security controls that do not hinder business innovation within specific programs/projects.
• Security Liaison: Serve as a liaison for the security team, facilitating communication and collaboration with other departments involved in specific programs/projects.
• Efficiency: Provide timely and efficient support to project teams, ensuring implementation teams are aligned with the required security functions and project teams.
• Additional Duties: Perform other duties as assigned to support the overall security posture of the organization within the context of specific programs/projects.

Experience

• B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in risk management, IT security, or relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years experience in working in IT Security, incident response, data security, data loss prevention, risk management, or IT operations.
• Proficiency with security technologies, including firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEM solutions, and vulnerability management tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security tools and methods for securing SaaS solutions.
• Preferred security certification such as SANS/GIAC, CompTIA, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM).

Capabilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly technical skills and security mindset is a must.
• Exceptional planning skills a must.
• Results-oriented, with demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Effective stakeholder management skills; ability to influence and work with across all groups and levels and business groups to develop the most effective approach.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively promote ideas, collaborate across teams, and influence stakeholders.
• Actively engaged in the security industry; equipped with external networking relationships to maintain relevant knowledge of best practices, tactics, strategies and technologies.

Location: Remote • Duration: 12 Months • Job Type: Temporary Assignment • Work Type: Remote • Pay Rate: $60.00 ‐ $70.00/Hourly