Information Security Analyst II

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +30 more states – Remote

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💵 $94.1k - $150.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔐 Security Analyst

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SNHU Careers is the careers and hiring portal for Southern New Hampshire University, a nonprofit institution focused on transforming learners’ lives. The site promotes the university’s mission-driven culture, inclusive values, employee benefits (including remote work options and paid time off), and a wide range of job categories from academics and teaching to business operations, student support, marketing, and campus roles. It encourages talent community sign-ups and highlights professional development, diversity and equity initiatives, and flexible work arrangements.

📋 Description

• Be an initial triage point for all security-related tickets that come into the team's multiple queues (including triage, containment, and remediation) • Understand the basic incident response lifecycle and the analytical mindset needed when it comes to triage and investigations • Excel at documentation and detailed notetaking, including SOP writing, incident reporting, email and instant messaging etiquette, and most importantly, documenting incident actions • Collect and analyze log data from complex, virtualized, multi-site computing environments and SNHU's technology ecosystem • Conduct real-time monitoring of security events from multiple sources and use analytical and problem-solving skills to identify, triage, analyze, investigate, and escalate information security events and alerts • Analyze digital evidence to identify indicators of compromise, adversary activity, root cause, incident timelines, and attack vector(s) • Perform incident response activities like endpoint isolation, malware remediation, forensic analysis, malware analysis, community member interviews, and network traffic analysis • Perform investigation and escalation for complex or high severity security threats or incidents • Coordinate information security incident response according to SNHU's Information Security Incident Response Plan • Communicate with partners, in a non-technical manner, at all organizational levels as part of incident response and remediation activities • Design and implement or monitor information security incident remediation plans • Design, configure, deploy, and manage security tools (e.g. Splunk, Halcyon, Microsoft Defender, Tenable) • Design, deploy, and manage detections and alerts for specific or common threat conditions • Design and implement standard operational processes for handling common incident types • Maintain automation scripts and other tools to enhance security operations effectiveness • Familiarity with enterprise security tools like Splunk, Tenable, Proofpoint tools, Microsoft Defender components, Office 365 tools, PowerShell, and multiple network tools • Demonstrate a deep source of ethics, integrity, and confidentiality • Can remain calm and function at the highest level during a crisis • Remain up to date on latest threat intelligence • Develop strategies and solutions that improve or mitigate the risks associated with these threats • Work cross-functionally across ITS and all SNHU departments to provide support, guidance, and technical implementations to include triage, containment, and remediation when applicable • Provide customer support according to SNHU's Core Values and understand how and when to escalate potential issues • Help with risk management, vulnerability management, security assessment, auditing, and security authorization projects, as directed by the university's Information Security Management team • Provide coaching/mentoring to junior analysts. • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in information technology • 2+ years working in a security operations center (SOC), a cybersecurity operations center or on a cybersecurity incident response team • High School Diploma or equivalent (GED) • Experience collecting, organizing, and analyzing security data from enterprise monitoring tools, including SIEM, IPS, NAC, vulnerability scanners, Windows/Linux system logs, network scanners, log aggregation platforms, and EDR solutions • Experience with vulnerability management and penetration testing concepts and activities • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework • Professional Certification(s): ISC2 CISSP Certification, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, CompTIA, Security+, GSEC, or other relevant industry certification.

🏖️ Benefits

• High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance • Low to no-cost dental and vision plans • 5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays) • Employer-funded retirement • Free tuition program • Parental leave • Mental health and wellbeing resources