Cybersecurity Analyst - Information Technology

Job Summary

Clark County’s Information Technology Department is seeking a 2-year project term Cybersecurity Analyst. In this position, be responsible for monitoring multiple cyber security tools that watch for potential security risks, recommending mitigation and/or countermeasures, and resolving security integration issues related to the implementation of new systems within the County's infrastructure. You will help develop guidelines and identify standards that will be used by members of IT and other departments across the County to help meet our cybersecurity goals.

As the Cybersecurity Administrator, your authority and scope of responsibility will often cross all organizational lines. As such this position will report directly to the County CISO (currently the Director of Information Technology).

Qualifications

This position will be responsible for the following areas:

• Takes a proactive approach to problem resolution, identifies potential problems before they occur, provides recommendations for resolution, and drives implementation.
• When required, escalates problems in a timely manner in order to ensure the adequate handling of incidents/problems to mitigate the impact on County operations.
• Help identify and implement required security changes within the infrastructure of County network, systems and applications.
• Writes new security specific policies and procedures for the County, as well as reviewing and updating existing policies with the help of IT functional managers and CIO.
• Evolve and maintain a log management system as part of the SIEM solution to meet both regulatory security compliance and County cybersecurity requirements.
• Provide enterprise-wide cyber monitoring, analytics, and coordination capability.
• Provide security incident response monitoring to examine designated dashboards, events, and logs to identify and escalate potential indicators of security compromise.
• Conduct investigations into potential cyber incidents including building documentation of findings and required remediation efforts.
• Participate in incident response during cyber incidents.
• Support forensic analysis and evaluate/deconstruct malware through open-source and vendor-provided tools.
• Review intrusion detection signatures to identify those specific indicators that are unique to a particular exposure or zero-delay vulnerability, delivering threat and awareness/education briefings, coordination of process development, and technical writing.
• Perform cybersecurity evaluations on all new software applications at the County prior to purchase.
• Provides responsive, transparent support to ensure excellent customer service.
• Conduct vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.
• Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)..

For complete job announcement, application requirements, and to apply on-line, please visit our website at:

https://www.clark.wa.gov/human-resources/explore-careers-clark-county

Salary Grade: IT Guild.T4 ($7,217.00 - $9,470.00) per month

For complete job announcement, application requirements, and to apply on-line, please visit our website at:

https://www.clark.wa.gov/human-resources/explore-careers-clark-county