Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to support and strengthen the organization’s security program in Scottsdale, Arizona. Working under the general supervision of the Cyber Security Manager, you will help implement and maintain security processes and technology improvements aligned to the organization’s Cyber security Strategic Plan.

This onsite role focuses on risk assessment, security system administration and auditing, security architecture development, and ongoing improvements across enterprise and cloud environments. You will also provide guidance to security team members and support investigations, audits, and incident response activities as needed.

• Own the implementation and ongoing maintenance of security processes and technology improvements in support of the Cyber security Strategic Plan.
• Partner with IT teams and divisions to conduct risk assessments and to administer and audit security systems.
• Develop, implement, and maintain security architecture design
  , while supporting technologies and processes that enable continuous security improvements.
• Mentor security team staff to build technical skills and customer service skills needed to work independently and support career progression.
• Ensure cross-functional training so primary and secondary support personnel are prepared to support division services.
• Assist with routine supervision by prioritizing and coordinating workflow and providing training and assistance as needed.
• Help establish criteria for employee performance evaluations based on division and department goals and objectives.
• Provide senior leadership for the Security Team and work with other IT divisions to establish and enforce IT standards.
• Evaluate and recommend best-in-class security standards, processes, and practices.
• Contribute security best practices and technical expertise across security planning, implementation, and incident response activities.
• Proactively audit and review network and security infrastructure, including monitoring LAN/WAN, security firewalls, routers, and systems to maintain security standards.
• Help ensure scheduled maintenance, patching, and performance monitoring are managed and tracked.
• Provide operational reporting that communicates the SRPMIC security posture.
• Provide technical input to troubleshoot security issues.
• Build and maintain cloud security standards, controls, and processes to support confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cloud-hosted systems and data.
• Perform cloud security assessments of infrastructure, services, architectures, and configurations to identify and mitigate risks.
• Provide SME support for cloud migrations, implementations, and related technology initiatives.
• Monitor cloud environments for threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and anomalous activity, coordinating remediation efforts.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to implement controls for identity and access management, logging and monitoring, encryption, network security, and data protection.
• Provide reporting and metrics regarding the security posture and risk of cloud environments.
• Provide cybersecurity SME leadership for secure adoption, implementation, and use of artificial intelligence technologies
  , including developing security standards, policies, and guidelines for responsible use.
• Perform security and risk assessments of AI solutions, applications, platforms, and third-party AI services, identifying risks such as data exposure, unauthorized access, insecure integrations, prompt injection, data poisoning, model misuse, and third-party risks.
• Evaluate AI vendors and services to ensure security, privacy, data protection, and contractual requirements are addressed.
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