TECH:Cloud Security Analyst

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In this role, the Cloud Security Analyst will be r esponsible for architecting, implementing, monitoring, and improving information security processes and cloud infrastructure/platforms to protect the non-profit organization’s data . The Cloud Security Analyst is responsible for

• Assess and Advise - Identify, assess, consult, and report security risk .
• Enable and Protect - Secure compute services with appropriate security controls
• Detect and Respond - Identify, report, mitigate, and recover from security incidents .

Skills

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud security
• Outstanding troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate skills with security concepts, defense-in-depth strategies, firewalls/IDSs, security tools, and protocols
• "White-hat" mentality, with a healthy sense of paranoia (security awareness and risk)
• Passion for cybersecurity and technology trends, news, and hacking techniques

Responsibilities

• Monitoring networks and systems
• Triaging events to identify, document, report, and mitigate potential incidents
• Responding to security incidents to minimize the impact on the organization
• Participating in penetration testing exercises to find potential weaknesses in the organization’s system, application, and physical security effectiveness
• Performing vulnerability testing on IT assets, evaluating and documenting risks, identifying patches and/or compensating controls, and coordinating remediation efforts with various IT and business teams
• Testing and validating security controls to provide assurance that controls are effective, coordinating remediation efforts
• Performing forensics investigations as might be required for root cause of security incidents, legal, or HR issues; may include packet dissection, log analysis, memory capture, and analysis, data recovery, etc.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud security
• Outstanding troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate skills with security concepts, defense-in-depth strategies, firewalls/IDSs, security tools, and protocols
• "White-hat" mentality, with a healthy sense of paranoia (security awareness and risk)
• Passion for cybersecurity and technology trends, news, and hacking techniques
• Be willing and eager to proactively seek and accept help from inside and outside the organization. Can work independently.
• Focused on the end goal (serving the underprivileged middle school girls), not the process.
• Experience with documenting and training others on the task at hand (interns, new volunteers).
• Customer Service oriented.