Cyber Security Analyst

Job Title: Cybersecurity Analyst

Location: Lake Forest, IL

Duration: 9 months (with extension possibility)

Rate: $48/hr - $65/hr (depending on experience)

Job Description:

The Cybersecurity Analyst will:

· Contribute to the 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.

· Duties:

o Contribute to the development of a risk-based Cyber Security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices.

o Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tools sets.

o 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.

o 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).

o 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.

o 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.

o Perform assessment of Cyber Security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment.

o Support management in the development of strategies, policy, and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

· Required:

o 5 years of experience is required.

o Possesses CISSP certification (or similar) and has knowledge of national and international regulatory compliance and frameworks such as ISO, SOX, BASEL II, EU DPD, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

o The candidate must be onsite in Lake Forest IL.

o Past working experience on NIST Framework preferred.

W2 position – only US Citizens, Green Card holders, or candidates with EADs need apply (no C2C)

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $48.00 - $65.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience level:

• 10 years
• 5 years
• 6 years
• 7 years
• 8 years
• 9 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• cybersecurity operations support: 5 years (Required)
• design of cybersecurity toolsets: 5 years (Required)
• CISSP certification: 5 years (Required)
• ISO, SOX, BASEL II, EU DPD, HIPAA, and PCI DSS: 5 years (Required)
• NIST Framework: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Lake Forest, IL (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Lake Forest, IL: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person