Network security analyst ( Only Locals to Texas)

Position Overview

Job Title: Network Security Analyst
Duration: 7 months

Location:

Key Responsibilities

• Install, administer, configure, and troubleshoot cybersecurity software and hardware tools.
• Monitor network traffic, system logs, and security alerts to detect suspicious or malicious activity.
• Evaluate and review existing cybersecurity tools and controls to identify gaps and weaknesses.
• Develop recommendations and implement risk reduction and remediation plans.
• Investigate security incidents and breaches and support incident response activities.
• Apply and manage security patches and updates for network and security systems.
• Design, prepare, and present project documentation including project plans, status reports, briefings, and presentations.
• Conduct research, interviews, meetings, and workshops to understand organizational objectives, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Interact extensively with internal and external stakeholders to identify, analyze, and resolve complex security issues.
• Perform basic project management duties, including project charters, risk management, communications, and resource coordination.
• Edit, maintain, and update technical documentation ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
• Provide regular progress reports and briefing materials to leadership and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of evaluating and reviewing existing cybersecurity tools and controls to determine gaps, provide recommendations, and implement risk reduction plans.
• 3+ years of designing, preparing, and presenting supporting documentation such as project plans, status reports, briefings, and presentations, along with internal/external stakeholder communication materials.
• 3+ years of using research, interviews, meetings, and workshops to understand the organization's strategic objectives, processes, issues, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• 3+ years of interacting extensively with internal or external stakeholders to identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or security gaps.
• 3+ years of fulfilling basic project management duties to ensure the successful completion of short-term engagements, including creation of project charters, expectation/communications management, risk management, and resource coordination.
• 3+ years of performing editing on documentation, ensuring checks for format, clarity, and overall cohesiveness while managing updates to technical literature and preparing progress reporting and briefing materials.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of evaluating and reviewing existing cybersecurity tools and controls to determine gaps, provide recommendations, and implement risk reduction plans.
• 5+ years of designing, preparing, and presenting supporting documentation such as project plans, status reports, briefings, and presentations, along with stakeholder communication materials.
• 5+ years of using research, interviews, meetings, and workshops to understand the organization's strategic objectives, processes, issues, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• 5+ years of interacting extensively with internal or external stakeholders to identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or security gaps.
• 5+ years of fulfilling basic project management duties, including creation of project charters, expectation/communications management, risk management, and resource coordination.
• 5+ years of performing editing on documentation with an emphasis on clarity, consistency, and accuracy, while managing updates to technical literature and preparing briefing materials.