Security Analyst

Role overview

Support day-to-day security operations for a health program administrator, protecting sensitive personal and health information across cloud and on-premises environments. The work spans alert monitoring, threat response, vulnerability management, and security governance, with controls aligned to federal and healthcare requirements.

Responsibilities

- Monitor and triage alerts from SIEM, endpoint detection, data loss prevention, and cloud telemetry tools. - Investigate security incidents and assist with containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned. - Run vulnerability scanning and validation, prioritize findings, track remediation, and report status. - Maintain security plans, remediation plans, audit responses, and evidence for control assessments. - Support identity and access reviews, least-privilege practices, and privileged-access monitoring. - Improve detection rules, response playbooks, automation, operational dashboards, and security metrics in partnership with technical teams.

Requirements

- At least three years of related experience; the detailed qualifications call for 3–5 years in security operations or blue-team work, ideally in regulated healthcare or federal settings. - Hands-on experience with SIEM tools such as Splunk, EDR such as CrowdStrike or similar, vulnerability scanners such as Tenable or Nessus, and DLP tools. - Familiarity with NIST 800-53, HIPAA, RMF, log management, and AWS or Azure environments. - CompTIA Security+ certification, or ability to obtain it within six months. - Strong investigation, documentation, and communication skills; availability for an on-call rotation. - Ability to obtain and maintain a Moderate Risk Public Trust background investigation.

Nice to have

- Splunk, cloud security, CySA+, or CEH certifications; experience with ServiceNow or Jira, SPL or KQL, Python or PowerShell, or DLP tuning. - Exposure to FedRAMP, zero-trust practices, or governance of protected health information.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote, full-time role with less than 10% travel. U.S. citizenship is not required. - The source lists an estimated salary range of $85,093–$115,000, subject to experience, location, and contract factors. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid leave and holidays, and paid family leave.