Security Analyst

The role provides an opportunity to work with network security controls, investigate alerts and potential threats, support security assessments and infrastructure changes, and contribute to cybersecurity and compliance initiatives. This is a hands-on cybersecurity role focused on network security operations, secure network design, monitoring, compliance, and analysis across on-premise and/or cloud networking environments.

Network Security Analyst

Position Overview

This is a hands-on cybersecurity role focused on network security operations, secure network design, monitoring, compliance, and analysis across on-premise and/or cloud networking environments. The role provides an opportunity to work with network security controls, investigate alerts and potential threats, support security assessments and infrastructure changes, and contribute to cybersecurity and compliance initiatives.

The analyst will work independently on technical tasks while supporting senior analysts on complex initiatives and collaborating with technical teams, business units, partners, and vendors.

What You'll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Assist in maturing network security and compliance solutions.

• Investigate and respond to daily network alerts.

• Perform network security assessments for proposed firewall and infrastructure changes.

• Conduct technical analysis for network security planning and engineering.

• Review connectivity, website block, and firewall rule requests to assess potential security risk.

• Analyze on-premise and cloud networks for potential threats.

• Develop, review, and analyze network traffic reports for violations of approved Ports, Protocols and Services standards.

• Monitor emerging threat vectors and recommend countermeasures.

• Collaborate with other areas to implement security controls.

• Support cloud and on-premise network changes and enhancement projects.

• Support compliance with ARC-AMPE, HIPAA, and SCDIS-200.

• Assist with KPI creation and trend report monitoring.

• Participate in firewall configuration reviews and ruleset recertification.

• Provide guidance on security best practices to technical teams.

• Perform additional SOC duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Approximately 3–5 years of hands-on experience in network design, implementation, or support.

• Hands-on experience in IT security or system administration.

• Working knowledge of secure network design, security architecture, compliance tools, data protection, and access models.

• Ability to analyze logs, alerts, and network telemetry.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.

• Hands-on experience with data network design best practices.

• Knowledge of routing and switching protocols.

• Experience with network security best practices.

• Experience in on-premise and/or cloud networking environments.

• Experience with secure network design principles, switching and routing, enterprise firewalls, network auditing, IDS/IPS platforms, and network security monitoring.

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent experience.

• A network security-centric certification such as PCNSE or CCNA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulatory environments.

• Experience supporting health IT or state government.

• Familiarity with FISMA, NIST, CMS ARC-AMPE, and HIPAA security and privacy standards.

• Experience supporting repeatable security processes for compliant enterprise architectures.

• Experience supporting security considerations for multi-tenant cloud environments and vendor integrations.

• Experience with SIEM platforms such as QRadar or Splunk.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure security.

• Experience with cloud network security controls in Azure or AWS.

• CISSP or Security+.

Required Skills

• Network design, implementation, or support

• IT security / system administration

• Secure network design

• Security architecture

• Compliance tools

• Data protection and access models

• Log, alert, and network telemetry analysis

• Switching and routing

• Enterprise firewalls

• Network auditing

• IDS/IPS

• Network security monitoring

• Microsoft Office

Preferred Skills

• Regulatory environments

• Health IT or state government

• FISMA

• NIST

• CMS ARC-AMPE

• HIPAA security and privacy standards

• QRadar

• Splunk

• Cloud infrastructure security

• Azure or AWS cloud network security

• CISSP

• Security+

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