Information Security Analyst

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔐 Security Analyst

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Harvard University

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10,000+ employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional education across many schools and disciplines and is a major center for academic research. Harvard is organized and operated as a non-profit institution with extensive teaching, research, and public service activities.

📋 Description

• Operate recurring vulnerability and compliance reporting, quality-check results, and distribute reports to HMS groups on schedule • Advise system administrators on findings and remediation, and track issues through verified closure • Run day-to-day execution of the endpoint security compliance effort, ensuring required security agents are deployed and healthy • Monitor cloud security posture, triage misconfigurations, and work with cloud owners to remediate findings • Support vendor risk management, including security reviews and follow-up on identified issues • Triage data loss prevention alerts and coordinate remediation of sensitive data on shared storage • Support security assessments, penetration testing, and the security awareness program • Build dashboards and reports, and use basic scripting to automate recurring tasks • Work collaboratively with all departments within HMS IT and Harvard University IT • Provide critical operational support for Harvard Medical School infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of five years’ experience post-secondary education or relevant work experience • Bachelor's degree in information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field • Working knowledge of vulnerability management fundamentals, including CVE and CVSS, risk prioritization, and remediation timelines • Demonstrated ability to obtain results from technical staff who do not report to you • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Hands-on experience with enterprise vulnerability scanning, endpoint protection, or asset inventory tools • Experience with cloud security posture management and common cloud misconfigurations • Experience with vendor or third-party security risk assessments • Experience with data loss prevention alert triage and sensitive data remediation • Experience with endpoint management and agent deployment at scale • Experience with IT service management or GRC ticketing and reporting • Familiarity with HIPAA, NIST SP 800-53, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or comparable frameworks • Experience in higher education, an academic medical center, or a research environment, especially with decentralized IT groups • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail • Ability to act as a trusted advisor • Certifications listed: SecAI+, Security+, PenTest+, CCSK, Cloud+

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off including parental leave • Medical, dental, and vision health insurance coverage starting on day one • Retirement plans with university contributions • Wellbeing and mental health resources • Support for families and caregivers • Professional development opportunities including tuition assistance and reimbursement • Commuter benefits, discounts and campus perks

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