Information Security Analyst

Job Description:

• Searching for talented Information Technology (IT) Security professional to join the Security Operations Team as a Security Analyst.
• This is an operations center staff position that supports the Enterprise Security Operations Center (SOC).
• This position is ONSITE in Melbourne, FL.
• Applicants must be willing to work rotating shift periods that include evening and weekend rotations.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for Tier 1 security configuration hardening, and configuration
• Use developed skills, tools, and external resources to validate security-related events to determine validity, exposure or false positive conditions
• Ability to retrieve, correlate and analyze event history, configuration files and system logs to assess presence of anomalous events
• Produce time-critical, technical reports to management outlining incident and potential mitigation
• Communicate with SOC and Network Operations Center (NOC) staff about potential issues, indicators and/or warnings
• Troubleshoot and effect restoration of service-impacting issues affecting customer VPN performance
• Handle trouble calls from customers and internal network users
• Apply baseline security configurations to network equipment to harden or update to meet approved requirement baselines.
• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotational basis as needed on weeknights and weekends
• Ability to work in a fast-paced operational environment to maintain availability and resiliency of network security services to customers.
• Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust security clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT Security or related field) and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience
• Minimum of (1) years' experience in the Information Security field.
• Minimum of (1) years' experience in the network engineering fields (Firewalls, Routers, Switches, VPN)

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Understanding of various Operating Systems (e.g Windows, Linux, etc.)
• Understanding of system logs and be familiar with log analysis
• Understanding of predominant cyber-attack vectors (Buffer Overflow, Phishing, etc.)
• Information Security Operations Center analyst experience
• CompTIA Security+ Certification or equivalent certification preferred
• Understanding of system vulnerabilities and exploitation
• Understanding of vulnerability mitigation
• Strong written and oral communication skills, be self-motivated and a self-starter, maintain a curiosity and desire to learn, and be able to work well in a team environment