Security Analyst

PTMA Financial Solutions, provides treasury management, liquidity management, and other financial products and services to the public sector. In addition to more than 12,000 local governments, school districts and other public entities, we also partner with over 1,000 financial institutions to help strengthen communities from coast to coast. Our family of financial services companies offers local government investment pool administration, investment advisory services, term investments, cashflow analysis, bond proceeds management, and public finance services for public entities plus stable deposit funding solutions for financial institutions. Our financial expertise, comprehensive products, and advanced technology help clients achieve more today for a better tomorrow. The firm’s primary operational hubs are in Denver, Colorado, and Naperville, Illinois, with other offices throughout the United States.

Position Summary

PTMA Financial Solutions is seeking an experienced, hands-on Security Analyst to serve as a key contributor within our growing information security program. In this role, you will report directly to the Information Security Manager and work in close partnership with our IT team to detect, triage, and respond to security/IT incidents. We are looking for someone with practical experience in incident response and security operations – whether that experience comes from a security background, IT background, or combination of both. You will also play a key role in our security operations by identifying, monitoring, triaging, remediating security-related events, supporting risk and vulnerability assessments, and communicating a strong security awareness culture across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor the environment to hunt, detect, triage, and respond to anomalous behavior and security events in alignment with incident response program playbooks
• Identify vulnerabilities through scanning and assessments, prioritizing findings by risk, and tracking remediation through to closure
• Identify and document operational security gaps and control inefficiencies, and opportunities in existing security processes and controls, and bring recommendations to the security team for improvement
• Support cyber risk assessments by gathering information about technical controls and processes
• Support security review of new vendor technologies for potential security risks & vulnerabilities
• Collaborate closely with the IT team on incident coordination, escalation workflows, and operationalization of security controls.
• Escalate high-risk incidents or architectural concerns to the Information Security Manager for direction

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 3-5 years of combined IT and/or cybersecurity experience, with meaningful hands-on involvement in responding to incidents
• Education: Bachelor's degree in information technology, cybersecurity, or equivalent combination of certificates & experience
• Demonstrated ability to independently triage, investigate, and coordinate the resolution of incidents in a structured, methodical way
• Working knowledge of security tools & platforms with experience investigating alerts
• Experience with vulnerability management tools, endpoint protection platforms, SIEM/SOAR, and identity security tools preferred.

The pay range for this role is:
90,000 - 105,000 USD per year(Colorado)