Senior IT Security Analyst-NIGC

We are seeking a Senior IT Security Analyst for IMMEDIATE HIRE to support our NIGC contract. What You’ll Be Doing Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards. Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools. Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist. Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements. Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of NIGC information systems. Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting. Develop Incident handling procedures. Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan. Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations. Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions. Required Qualifications Required Experience & Qualifications Education, Skills and Experience Bachelor Degree in Information Technology is desired. Preferred Skills & Certifications Security + Certification required. Level of Security Clearance: Public Trust [Required] #J-18808-Ljbffr Graceworks Lutheran Services