IT Security Analyst

Lansing, MI | Work from home flexibility

Posted: 03/07/2025 Category: Information Technology Job Number: DAPEL272

Job Description

Title: Senior Security Analyst

Location: Lansing, MI (2-days onsite, 3-days remote Hybrid schedule)

Note: This is a W2 contract position; C2C and 3rd party candidates will NOT be considered

The Senior Security Analyst will work as a member of the Incident Response Team. This position will be responsible for reviewing and remediating cyber incidents, alerts, and vulnerabilities, as well as maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. They will complete mid to high-level cyber investigations involving the security of the network environment.

Job Duties:

  • Review, validate, and document security procedures, standard operating procedures for undocumented incidents, and lessons learned
  • Review security incidents for actual or potential breaches or non-compliances, and ensure that all identified events are promptly and thoroughly investigated, as needed
  • Review metrics on the performance of security responsibilities, controls, and design; develop new reports for management based on those collected metrics across multiple agencies, and conduct trend analysis
  • Serve as an incident response specialist for cyber event detection, correlation, response, and recovery
  • Operate incident response tools and determine configurations for tools that are used to collect and analyze data to meet program reporting and evaluation requirements; incident data includes incident tickets serviced, requests sent through to the IR team, IR actions, and the results of IR investigations
  • Coordinate security responses and root-cause for all cyber security related events
  • Analyze/provide recommendations to management and executives on trending threats and how security can be improved, as well as provide routine updates to management on the progress and status of active events
  • Interface with other agencies to assist and make recommendations on how to improve security posture and reduce the number of security-related events
  • Serve as part of an on-call rotation, with the potential for weekend/afterhours work, as needed
  • Escalate issues, as necessary, and handle other duties, as assigned

Job Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of IT Security experience
  • Experience with malware analysis, digital forensics, data/network analysis, and penetration testing
  • Experience with Incident Response tools
  • A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology preferred

Note: This is a W2 contract position; C2C and 3rd party candidates will NOT be considered

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