IT Security Analyst 3

IT Security Analyst 3 - Job Description Candidate must be Local to: Michigan Type : W2 / 1099 / C2C Short Job Description The Security Analyst position works as a member of the Vulnerability Management Team. The Senior Security Analyst position reviews and remediates cyber incidents and vulnerabilities found by IT level analysts to IT security specialists and managers to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of State of Michigan data. Long Job Description Technical Security Analyst performing duties related to the Vulnerability Management team. Plans, schedules, implements, and maintains scalable vulnerability scans using modern vulnerability management scanning tools for high complexity devices. While ensuring safe and timely scanning that has minimal/no impact on scan targets, provides troubleshooting of technical issues with scans. Supports vulnerability management scanning and reporting tools. Conducts internal vulnerability audits of servers, network devices, applications, and other devices. Interfaces with internal and external auditors, providing detailed information on remediation efforts. Creates integration of vulnerability management data with other State of Michigan enterprise services. Conducts data analysis of vulnerability management data, often integrated with other data sources, to measure effectiveness of vulnerability remediation. Data analysis tasks include large datasets, which include structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Interfaces with other agencies to make recommendations on how to improve the security posture and reduce the number of security related vulnerabilities. Conducts trend analysis, creates dashboards using data scripting to provide metrics on the performance of security responsibilities, controls, and creates new reports for management based on those collected metrics across multiple agencies. Escalates as appropriate.