Information Security Analyst

Job Title

This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) operating on U.S. Soil who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Overview of the Role

In this role, you're expected to own the area of responsibility with minimal guidance from senior team members. You should innovate, challenge the status quo, embrace operational excellence best practices and use automation and emerging technologies to enhance delivery of your work product. Additionally, accountable for advising business partners on adopting new security requirements.

Responsibilities

Drive existing or newly identified initiatives between stakeholder organizations creating synergies and reducing risk of non-compliance with internal or external requirements. Support change management activities with federal authorization bodies. Support multiple security pillars within Salesforce Government Cloud Division including but not limited to, continuous monitoring activities, advisory, incident response, adoption of AI, and security documentation. Consult with business or security stakeholders on information security requirements and applicability to their business processes, products, or services. Create and maintain relationships with key business, legal, Employee Success, Internal Audit, technical/engineering stakeholders, and other organizations throughout the company who provide expertise in security requirements and solution management. Focus on continuous improvement of operational processes and designing innovative and automated functionality for added efficiency. Effectively communicate accreditation positions and programs to applicable business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, accreditation, and other security related areas
• Experience working with Government Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS etc)
• Experience in security related analysis, creating metrics and dashboards and summarizing large data sets
• Ability to work with both business and technical areas and translate between the two areas
• Skilled at building rapport and establishing partnerships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate results to multiple levels of management
• Knowledge security frameworks (FedRAMP20x, DoD SRG)
• Demonstrated desire to learn new skills and innovate
• Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications and can prioritize quickly and effectively
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship, and organizational skills
• Excellent analytical and process development skills
• Detail oriented with an eye for quality
• Drive improvements in existing processes and develop new innovative and efficient solutions
• Ability to work effectively with a wide range of individuals including developers, systems administrators, executives, customers, regulators, auditors, etc.
• Experience building productive relationships with Technical Operations, Security Operations, Incident Response, Technical Compliance, Engineering, and other stakeholders
• Experience working directly with Authorizing Officials in Federal Civilian agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), specifically the DISA Cloud Assessment Division.
• Proven experience in Compliance Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Operationalized AI automation strategies
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, AWS or similar certifications a plus
• Coding or scripting experience
• Experience leveraging AI to help facilitate day-to-day tasks.
• Understanding of FedRAMP 20x standards and requirements.
• Compliance engineering experience (e.g., developing tools, processes or requirements to facilitate compliance related work).