COMPANY SUMMARY

Since 1992, Kingland's managed solutions have helped data-intensive, highly-regulated clients connect and protect their businesses. Kingland develops and manages enterprise-class software solutions using its Kingland Platform and teams of data and technology experts. Clients in the banking and capital markets, public accounting, insurance, and healthcare industries look to Kingland to create solutions to manage data, risk, compliance, customer insight and more. The Kingland Platform is a highly secure, cloud-optimized software platform that includes enterprise data management, text analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and workflow and compliance management capabilities.

We are a team of talented individuals coming together to creatively solve complex problems, build great software, and deliver confidence to our clients. We strive to embody our core values of authenticity, creativity, excellence, and ownership throughout the workplace and provide our employees with exciting opportunities to grow year after year. With software that helps to ensure fairness, honesty, and transparency on a global stage, we seek people who believe in that mission as well – because we take pride in our reputation for serving our clients like no one else can.

Kingland is growing fast. We believe that each employee serves a vital role to the business and contributes to the success we see year and year again. Kingland is looking for individuals who like to tackle big challenges, want to work on mission-critical solutions, and have a desire to make a difference in the world. Kingland rewards the efforts that are given and treat their employees with appreciation and gratitude. Explore all the ways that quality of work meets quality of life at Kingland, and launch yourself on an exciting new adventure.

POSITION SUMMARY | Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

The Cybersecurity Operations Analyst is responsible for the success of security operations activities managed by the Kingland Security Office. The Cybersecurity Operations Analyst may work with stakeholders from a variety of teams to help ensure that each department of Kingland adheres to corporate security policies and standards. The Cybersecurity Operations Analyst will primarily monitor our SIEM and EDR solutions and provide tier 1 and tier 2 operational support for Kingland Corporation, clients, and our software products. 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES | Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

• Monitoring security events using SIEM and EDR tools.
• Assist with configuration of SIEM and EDR tools.
• Ability to work an “on-call” rotation for afterhours support.
• Conduct internal phishing campaigns.
• Respond and analyze reported phishing emails.
• Investigating and advising on business impact from threat modeling of vulnerabilities.
• Participating in internal and third-party audits as needed.
• Participate in the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team to employ strategy, standards, processes, and technology to detect, respond, and recover from security incidents and limit occurrence or reoccurrence by using risk-based triage.
• Stay abreast of Cybersecurity best practices and emerging technologies to provide security recommendations tailored to specific requirements and needs.
• Reviewing and approving both RBAC and temporary access role escalations as well as additional Identity and Access Management processes
• Create and maintain corporate security training modules related to Incident response, phishing, role based training, and general security awareness trainings.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS | Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of Security Operations Experience, or 6 years cumulative in technology roles with 3 in Security Operations, Incident Response, or similar security roles.
• 2 years of experience with SIEM solutions such as QRadar, Splunk, SumoLogic Cloud SIEM, Kibana, Security Onion, ArcSight or similar.
• Knowledge and understanding of data security controls including malware protection, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, content filtering, Internet proxies, encryption controls, and log management solutions.
• Certifications in one or more of the following are preferred: CySA , CASP , CEH, GCIH, GCED, GISP. Or any other intermediate to expert level defensive certifications.
• Strong work and time management skills and attention to details.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to think critically.
• Ability to work an “on-call” rotation for afterhours support.

DESIRED SKILLSETS | Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

• Experience with SumoLogic CSE highly sought after.
• Experience with Cortex XDR highly sought after.
• Experience working with EDR solutions.
• Experience with Atlassian Products (Confluence & Jira).
• Experience gathering, reading, and acting upon Threat Intelligence.
• Experience identifying IOC’s and writing detection rules.
• Experience with SOAR Automation.
• Familiarity with Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, and cloud monitoring solutions.
• Familiarity with one or more of the following programming or scripting languages. Java, Python, C, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash or similar.

BENEFITS

Kingland has a suite of world class benefits and perks. Because we understand that each team member is unique, we offer generous and flexible health and welfare, wellness, lifestyle, and total rewards benefits that are carefully picked and well designed. We are authentic in our commitment to providing team members with an exceptional experience and work hard to ensure that each individual feels valued and supported in their role, and can advance their career through development plans and growth opportunities. Visit Kingland.com/Careers for additional details!

LOCATION

• Kingland offers modern office locations in our Ames, Iowa; Clear Lake, Iowa; or Fort Myers, Florida