Security Analyst/Engineer Job Description

Security Analyst/Engineer job description will consist of the role, responsibilities, qualifications and technical or soft skills required

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Role

As security threats change over time, the role of Security Analysts/Engineers is to keep the company's security products standard constantly up to date. They are also responsible for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and repairing security defects throughout the application life cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the implementation of security measures within our rapidly expanding cloud infrastructure
  • Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to protect data, software, and AWS cloud resources
  • Create and maintain the DevSecOps toolsets required to automate, deploy, and manage the application release lifecycle
  • Own security architecture in the cloud in collaboration with other team members and functional areas
  • Track security violations and identify trends or exposures that could be addressed by additional training, technical measures, or the use of application tools to enhance security
  • May participate in simulated attacks or security violations to assess the organization's data security measures
  • Creation of security metrics, monitoring, and alerting around threats and compromise

Requirements

  • X years of experience with mobile security, threat modeling, secure coding, authentication, cryptography, cloud and/or network security
  • Should have an accurate understanding of installation, configuration, implementation, and management of cloud security solutions and offerings
  • Strong AWS and GCP experience is a must
  • Experience using Terraform to write and deploy infrastructure as code and Ansible configuration management
  • Experience in creating hardened AMIs and Container images.
  • Hands-on experience working with services and tools such as IAM, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, Inspector CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Shield, WAF, KMS, Lambda, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Slack, CloudCustodian
  • Mandatory and up-to-date awareness of the latest security trends and hacking techniques
  • Experience with implementation of security products DLP (Forcepoint), IPS (McAfee, Trend Micro), Anti-Spam ( Forcepoint, Cisco), Virus scanning (EPO) & WAF (Radware, F5)
  • Must have appropriate knowledge & understanding of the ITIL framework
  • Must have a proper understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols & L2/L3 switches
  • Should have an understating of TCP/IP, DNS, encryption, and routing

Soft Skills

  • Problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently
  • Design-oriented
  • Excellent communication skills

Bonus

  • Experience with firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management, and content filtering is desirable

Promotion Stage

Security Penetration Tester, Cybersecurity Architect

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security, or any other similar domain, which should be a 4-year program depending upon an individual interest
  • CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional), AWS Certified Security

Reports To

Security Penetration Tester

Key Skills

AWS, Infrastructure Security, Terraform,

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