Security Analyst

Columbia, SC, US • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours ago
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Network Design
  • IT Security
  • Data Protection
  • Compliance Tools

Summary

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.


QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).


Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.

Job Title: Security Analyst

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12 Months

Locals Only

 

Scope of the project:

The Office of Cybersecurity ensures the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Client’s systems and services. Strong candidate must have hands-on experience with:

  • Data network design best practices
  • Routing and switching protocols
  • Network security best practices
  • On-premise and/or cloud networking environments

This role requires someone who can contribute independently on technical tasks and support more senior analysts on complex initiatives.

 

Daily duties/responsibilities:

This is a hands-on technical role reporting to the Office of Cybersecurity SOC lead.

The analyst will support Client leadership, business units, partners, and vendors in day-to-day cybersecurity operations.

 

Security Program Experience:

Strongly desired experience includes:

  • CMS ARC-AMPE, HIPAA, NIST or other FISMA RMF frameworks
  • Performing repeatable security processes supporting compliant enterprise architectures
  • Supporting security considerations for multi tenant cloud environments and vendor integrations

 

Technical Experience:

Candidates should have hands-on experience with:

  1. Secure network design principles
  2. Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems
  3. Switching and Routing
  4. Enterprise Firewalls
  5. Network auditing
  6. IDS/IPS platforms
  7. Network security monitoring
  8. SIEM platforms such as QRadar, Splunk (Preferred)
  9. Vulnerability scanning tools (Nessus, Qualys, etc.)
  10. Cloud Infrastructure Security (Preferred)

 

Essential Responsibilities:

  1. Assist in maturing network security and compliance solutions
  2. Investigate and respond to daily network alerts
  3. Perform network security assessments for proposed firewall and infrastructure changes
  4. Conduct technical analysis for network security planning and engineering
  5. Review and assessment of connectivity, website block and firewall rule requests to ensure they do not present an elevated risk to the agency
  6. Analyze on-premise and cloud networks for potential threats
  7. Develop, review, and analyze network traffic reports that violate the agency’s approved standards governing Ports, Protocols and Services.
  8. Monitor emerging threat vectors and recommend countermeasures
  9. Collaborate with other areas of the agency to implement security controls
  10. Support cloud and on-premise network changes and enhancement projects
  11. Ensure compliance with ARC-AMPE, HIPAA and SCDIS-200
  12. Assist with KPI creation and trend report monitoring
  13. Participate in firewall configuration reviews and ruleset recertification
  14. Provide guidance on best practices to technical teams
  15. Perform additional SOC duties as assigned

 

Required skills (rank in order of importance):

  1. Approximately 3-5 years of hands-on experience in network design, implementation, or support
  2. Hand-on experience in IT security or system administration
  3. Working knowledge of secure network design, security architecture, compliance tools, data protection, and access models
  4. Ability to analyze logs, alerts, and network telemetry.
  5. Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools

 

Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):

  1. Experience working in regulatory environments
  2. Experience supporting health IT or state government.
  3. Familiarity with FISMA, NIST, CMS ARC-AMPE, and HIPAA security and privacy standards
  4. Cloud network security controls (Azure or AWS).

 

Required education/certifications:

  1. BS degree in Computer Science, information systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent experience
  2. A network security centric certification such as PCNSE or CCNA

 

Preferred education/certifications:

  1. CISSP or Security+
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  • Dice Id: 91124171
  • Position Id: 15558-33923-1790023185
  • Posted 8 hours ago
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