IT Security Analyst job vacancy

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IT Security Analyst

Location: Jackson, MI (onsite from 2nd quarter)

This position will require a qualified Security Analyst to assist in the following tasks:

Work with local district IT staff with district security incidents such as ransomware and DDOS attacks
Establish, maintain, and operate a department-wide Security and Privacy Incident Response Program to ensure that incidents are properly reported, investigated, and mitigated, as appropriate
Provide training, guidance, technical assistance, and outreach to build a culture of privacy protection, data security, and data practice transparency to students, parents, and the public among all state and local government education entities that collect, maintain, use, or share student data
Work with the Infrastructure team, Applications team, Database team and other sub-units of OTSS to recommend and implement new security measures, strengthening the overall security posture of the agency
Possess exceptional communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills
Monitor and manage an ongoing staff security training program and provide security/privacy guidance to LEAs
Address any security and privacy audit findings
Prepare and exercise agency breach response and disaster recovery plans; and
Coordinate security/privacy efforts with the agency’s Data Governance Officer.
Leverage all available tools to develop and publish vulnerability reports
Identify, analyze, and interpret threat actors and malicious activity in client environments

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

Experience preparing administrative summary reports on privacy and security
Experience with developing response and mitigation plans for privacy violation incidents, ransomware attacks and other security/privacy incidents
Experience leading a data security and privacy training program
Experience writing security and privacy policies and procedures

Experience in education data systems and environments is a plus

ISC2/Comptia certifications in the areas of Cyber Security/Data Privacy or closely related work