What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior IT Security Analyst-NIGC position at CTI/ASD?
We are seeking a Senior IT Security Analyst for IMMEDIATE HIRE to support our NIGC contract.
What You'll Be Doing Day to Day
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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]