Cybersecurity Analyst (Remote Role)
Client Location: Augusta-Maine
Job Description
PROPOSED JOB TITLE: Security Operation Center Analyst III
As a Cybersecurity Analyst III, the candidate will be responsible for vulnerability
management, cyber threat identification, evaluation, prioritization, and remediation
activities under the direction of the Cyber Security Manager. The candidate will
continuously review existing and proposed protections to State of Maine systems, networks,
and software designs, and is responsible for analyzing, logging alerting data, identifying,
and escalating potential security events. The Cyber Security Analyst will partner with
business users to support the integration of cybersecurity protections into business
operations and will act as a key member of the Vulnerability Management team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Deploy, manage, and maintain enterprise Cybersecurity toolsets
• Review new systems such as networks and software designs for security risks,
recommending mitigations or countermeasures, and resolving integration issues.
• Have current and complete knowledge on the Vulnerability Management program to
include having Application Scanning experience and an understanding of
environmental best practices.
• Be emersed in industry best practices and standards such as: Vulnerability Life
Cycle, OWASP Top 10, NIST, CISA, SANS, CVSS Scoring.
• Develop, manage, and measure metrics to understand the trends, quality, and
insights from the vulnerability results to facilitate business decisions, automation
development, and update of executive dashboards, reports, and templates.
• Assist team members with ticket queue management by taking responsibility for and
delegating tickets to the team.
• Provide a cybersecurity partnership with the business to ensure proper
implementation of protections toward current and future projects.
• Under direction and per procedures, perform required tasks and coordinate with IT
and Vulnerability Management team and SOC team members.
• Coordinate architecture and engineering activities with other IT teams as well as
internal organizations in an efficient and professional manner. Lead vulnerability
management efforts in the detection, triage, tooling expansion, data aggregation and
reporting processes, tooling, and automation.
Develop cross-functional team relationships to become trusted point of contact and
liaison for inquiries, subject matter expert coordinating all issues, capability gaps,
and enhancement requests in the product.
• In this role, this position will assist the Security Operations Center in maturing and
developing a vulnerability program.
• This individual will work with key stakeholders to establish vulnerability and patch
management practices to ensure the execution of these functions tighten the security
posture within the State of Maine.
• Fill in other security functions as directed by the Security Operations Center
Manager.
• Uses a reactive approach to security that focuses on prevention, detection remediations of vulnerabilities.
MINMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Years of Relevant Experience: 10 years of information security experience, with a focus on
risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, and security testing within an enterprise
environment. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of Windows or Linux systems and
their associated scripting (PowerShell, python, bash) languages, experience with AWS or
Azure cloud environments, and will have worked with vulnerability and manual testing
following OWASP Top 10 products such as Tenable Nessus, Rapid 7 InsightVM, HCL App
Scan, MDVM, Qualys, Burp Suite, ZAP or similar. The ideal candidate will have experience in
both application scanning and device vulnerability management procedures.
Preferred Education: 4-year college degree in computer science or a related field with
advanced study preferred; One or more relevant technical security certifications are a
plus (GIAC, ISC2, CompTIA, EC Counsil, etc.)
