Security Analyst II Location:
Madison, WI Hybrid position Need Wisconsin Residents only Top Required Skills & Years of Experience (4 to 7 years):
- IT Security
- Crowd Strike administration - expert knowledge
- Tenable administration - expert knowledge (This experience was often missed in the original posting)
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) Nice to Have Skills:
- CISSP or equivalent - 1 year
Description:
Under the general guidance of the IT Strategy and Governance Officer, this position is responsible for growing and operating the agency IT Security Program at Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI). The Security Analyst II is expected to be familiar with a wide variety of IT security concepts, practices, and technologies. The position serves as an expert resource and relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. This includes providing advanced analysis to manage the security design, implementation, monitoring, and incident response related to networks, servers, storage, applications, databases, and endpoints. The position will lead projects to implement new security controls and technologies. The position will also assist with the creation of policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. This position may lead and direct the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Required Skills:- IT Security - 4 to 7 years
- CrowdStrike administration - expert knowledge
- Tenable administration - expert knowledge
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Preferred:- CISSP or equivalent - 1 year Regular duties may include the following representative tasks:
- Administer CrowdStrike, Tenable, Zscaler
- Perform IT security risk assessments. Develop, recommend, and implement remediation strategies.
- Research vendor offerings and conduct proof of concepts.
- Coordinate with other teams to implement new technologies and remediate issues.
- Monitor asset inventory, installed agents, and status of devices.
- Review vulnerability dashboards and organizational impact of changing threat landscape.
- Monitor data inventories, policy violations. Produce reports and metrics.
- Author policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines related to IT security and compliance.
- Monitor and process incident response queues.
- Manage endpoint firewall operation and adjust as necessary.
- Work independently as well as within a team environment
