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Grade: Technical 410

Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

*This opportunity can be located in Salt Lake City, Utah, or Raleigh, NC.

The Staff IT Security Analyst is a position of technical expertise and leadership in the security technology function. They will use their knowledge of current security methods and standards to gather operational information and access and analyze tools, systems, and processes in defense of applications, systems, and networks and collaborate with Infrastructure and business teams. They will act as a lead support role for the IT Security team and provide mentorship to lower level analysts. They will also engage in the support of security focused tools and services. In addition, they may be asked to assist with risk assessments, forensics analysis, data collection, user training and other security related tasks.

Job Duties

Monitor and analyze alerts from multiple data sources (SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, EDR, email gateways, cloud logs).

Lead investigations of complex incidents across hybrid (cloud/on-prem) environments.

Perform threat hunting and correlation of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) using the MITRE ATTandCK framework.

Develop, tune, and maintain detections, alerting, and rules to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce alert fatigue.

Ensure proper data points are captured for calculating risk and detecting abnormalities in large datasets.

Research and deconstruct cyber-attacks into sequenced IOCs detectable through network device logs.

Lead the development and automation of SOC toolsets for real-time, automated configuration and control of cloud-based and software-defined infrastructure.

Maintain responsibility for automation and software delivery of security tools using CI/CD processes.

Design and implement SOAR functions to automate compliance enforcement, configuration management, and malicious activity remediation.

Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure complete log ingestion, data normalization, and data quality.

Integrate SOC tooling with ServiceNow and other enterprise systems for case management and workflow automation.

Lead the development of security content and use cases aligned to the MITRE ATTandCK Framework.

Design and document enterprise-wide detection... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, reli
gion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

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