Senior IT Security Analyst-NIGC

We are seeking a Senior IT Security Analyst for IMMEDIATE HIRE to support our NIGC contract.

• Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards.
• Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools.
• Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist.
• Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements.
• Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of NIGC information systems.
• Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting.
• Develop Incident handling procedures.
• Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan.
• Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations.
• Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Education, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Information Technology is desired.

• Security + Certification required.

Level of Security Clearance:
Public Trust [Required]