What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Operations Analyst position at Wright-Patt Credit Union?
Category
Information Technology --> Information Technology
Job Location
3560 Pentagon Blvd, Beavercreek, Ohio
Additional Locations
- Cincinnati
- Columbus
Exempt (Salary)
NMLS Required
No
Work Type
Variable
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular
The Cyber Operations Analyst (COA) helms Wright-Patt Credit Union’s (WPCU) Cyber Integrity Center (CIC). They are responsible ensuring the performance, availability and integrity of WPCU’s networks, mission-critical applications and data. They are tasked with providing technical expertise in all areas of network, system, and application security. They coordinate with various teams in the Information Technology (IT) department, Information Security, and other stakeholders to resolve and optimize network performance, triage outages and protect WPCU’s infrastructure, end points and data. The COA manages WPCU’s vulnerability management program and is the first to respond to cyber security incidents. They report on cyberthreats and work with IT Security Engineers and other stakeholders to implement any changes needed to protect WPCU’s infrastructure and data.
- Cyber Threat Management ‐ Collect, analyze, triage, and disposition of information from all threat sources. Maintain Anti-virus, IDS/IPS & EDR signatures, rules, or other defensive countermeasures that “arm and inform” monitoring infrastructure based on analyzing the threat intelligence. (35%)
- Monitoring and Analysis – Proactively monitor the availability and performance of WPCU’s networks and mission‐critical applications. Track system performance against defined service level agreements. Coordinate with other IT staff to correct issues and optimize services. (25%)
- Incident Response – Detect, triage, analyze, respond & recover from system outages and suspicious activity. Troubleshoot issues & escalate to the appropriate teams for resolution. (10%)
- Logging ‐ Perform audit logging of users, applications, networks, systems, and access to physical assets. (10%)
- Ensures proper policies, procedures, risk mitigation activities, and operating controls are followed. Reports gaps in policies, procedures, risk mitigation activities and operating controls to leadership to ensure member impact and risk is mitigated. (10%)
- Documentation – Properly document incidents, systems and procedures. (10%)
- 2‐5 years of experience in the information technology field.
- Bachelor’s Degree is desired, preferably information technology or computer science.
- CompTIA Security , CySA , or EC‐Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification required. Candidates without these certificates will be considered, however they may be required to obtain certification within the first year.
- Experience with managing and securing both on-premises and hosted systems and applications.
- Working knowledge of network defense, forensics, reverse engineering, and incident response.
- Working knowledge of network administration, traffic analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
