Job Title: Cybersecurity Sr Analyst
Location: Saint Paul, MN 55117
Duration: Until the end of this year

Job Description:
Support of cybersecurity operations by designing, developing or recommending secure technical solutions, including policy, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are operationally viable and efficient.  Perform responsibilities to ensure that the appropriate application of security products and technologies are in place to protect the organization’s systems and information and enable achievement of the organization’s objectives.  Contribute to the design of cybersecurity toolsets to enable more automated discovery, remediation, and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities, as a means of improving the security posture.  Perform analysis of emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies.
 
Core Job Responsibilities:

• Manage enterprise reputational score issues by meeting with asset owners to determine mitigation strategies, update tracking information, complete follow-ups for issues and provide metrics.
• Contribute to the development of a risk-based cyber security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices.
• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tools sets.
• Support the advancement of the Company’s cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.
• Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats.
• Guide business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.
• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company against cyber threats (e.g., knowledge of firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, data loss prevention solutions, endpoint protections, log aggregation technology and other leading-edge security technologies).
• Participate in cross-team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects.
• Contribute subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure the timely, on budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness.
• Perform assessment of cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment.
• Support management in the development of strategies, policy and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

 
Position Scope:

• Reports to Attack Surface Senior Manager. 

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Minimum Experience/Training Required:

• 2 to 4 years of cybersecurity experience is required.
• Possess expertise in valuing and implementing industry standards such as the ISO/IEC 27034 Information technology - Security techniques - Application security and NIST  800-53 Software Development Controls.
• Experience with implementation and operational use of reputational scoring tools.
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages and web programming is desirable.
• Possess CISSP certification (or similar) is desired but not required.
• Be knowledge of national and international regulatory compliances and frameworks such as ISO, SOX, BASEL II, EU DPD, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

TOP SKILLS
1. External Reputational Scoring experience 2. Able to articulate vulnerabilities/issues to owners 3. Able to code in Python 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 70.00/hr.