Cybersecurity Third Party Senior Analyst

Job Title

The position is described below.

In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating and managing risks introduced by supplier connectivity, including: vendor cloud integrations, VPN and network access, application-to-application connections, API and data exchange pathways. The role focuses on technical risk assessment rather than just policy compliance, analyzing how vendors connect, what they can access, and what business risk that introduces. The analyst also drives process improvements, develops new risk attribution methods, and refines governance for vendor access and connectivity. In addition, role will be part of the continuous monitoring team focusing on security risks introduced by third-party suppliers, SaaS platforms, and publicly exposed assets. This role will develop threat models, detection strategies, and monitoring capabilities to identify and reduce external and supply-chain related threats impacting the organization.

This is a fully on-site position based in Atlanta, GA. Teammates are expected to be in the office five days a week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

1. Technical Risk Assessment of Vendor Connectivity

• Evaluate security risks for VPN access, cloud integrations, API connections, and SaaS apps.
• Assess authentication, authorization, network segmentation, and trust boundaries.
• Identify excessive access, weak authentication, insecure patterns, and single points of failure.
• Maintain consistent classification of high-risk integrations and critical vendor access.

2. Line of Business (LOB) Request Review

• Review and approve/deny new vendor connection requests and modifications.
• Partner with business and engineering teams to understand use cases, recommend safer patterns, and propose compensating controls.
• Advise Procurement, Vendor Risk, Application, and Cloud teams on technical risks.
• Translate technical findings into business risk statements and remediation actions.
• Support contractual security requirements and risk acceptance documentation.

3. Process Improvement & Method Development

• Refine vendor risk processes to move beyond questionnaires and annual reviews.
• Provide risk-based guidance rather than binary approvals.
• Introduce architecture-based risk reviews and threat-model-informed assessments.
• Define standard secure integration patterns, risk thresholds, and escalation criteria.

4. Control Validation & Monitoring Alignment

• Validate network, IAM, and monitoring controls for vendor connections.
• Partner with SOC and Detection Engineering to ensure high-risk connections are monitored.
• Coordinate with third party risk management, incident response, and infrastructure teams to validate threats, contain incidents, and recommend remediation steps.
• Monitor external threat intelligence and vendor security events to assess potential organizational impact.
• Identify and document abuse cases and attack paths involving external parties and publicly exposed assets.
• Translate technical findings into business risk and remediation recommendations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent education and related training
• Eight years of experience in Cybersecurity or related work
• Broad knowledge of general IT with mastery of one or more of the following areas: operating systems, networking, computer programming, web development or database administration
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of cyber security operations with mastery of one or more of the following: attack surface management, Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) use, threats (including Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), insider), vulnerabilities, and exploits; incident response, investigations and remediation
• Experience with systems for automated threat intelligence sharing using industry standard protocols, such as Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) and Trusted Automated Exchange of Indication Information (TAXII) Advanced knowledge of processes, procedures and methods to research, analyze and disseminate threat intelligence information
• Ability to lead and persuade individuals and large teams on ideas, concepts and opportunities

Preferred Qualifications :

• Master's degree or MBA and seven (7+) years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in Information Security banking. Strong knowledge on cybersecurity risks, frameworks, best practices, and industry/regulatory requirements. Knowledge and experience in use of cyber security frameworks in assessing programs.
• Experience conducting, preparing, and presenting analysis, findings, and recommendations.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, technology related field or equivalent education and related training.
• Excellent ability to express complex multi-disciplinary technical and business concepts in terms that are understandable to all levels of Lines of Business and corporate management both verbally and in writing.
• Experience in security architecture reviews, third-party/vendor risk, and threat modeling.
• Ability to read diagrams, detect weak trust boundaries, challenge unsafe designs diplomatically, and build repeatable processes.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP), VPN, IAM, OAuth, API security, and SaaS integrations.
• Cyber security certifications such as CISA, CISSP
• Other technical Certifications (e.g., CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, etc.)