SOC Security Operation Center Analyst 3 (remote)

Knowledge Services is seeking a Security Operation Center Analyst (SOC Analyst) for a contract through the end of June 2025 (likely for extension) with the State of Maine Office of Technology.   

• Applicants are able to work 100% remotely, but must have prior State government experience.

Security Operation Center Analyst Responsibilities:

• Will be responsible for vulnerability management, cyber threat identification, evaluation, prioritization, and remediation activities under the direction of the Cyber Security Manager.

• Continuously review existing and proposed protections to State of Maine systems, networks, and software designs, and is responsible for analyzing, logging alerting data, identifying, and escalating potential security events.

• Partner with business users to support the integration of cybersecurity protections into business operations and will act as a key member of the Vulnerability Management team.

• Deploy, manage, and maintain enterprise Cybersecurity toolsets.
• Review new systems such as networks and software designs for security risks, recommending mitigations or countermeasures, and resolving integration issues.
• Have current and complete knowledge on the Vulnerability Management program to include having Application Scanning experience and an understanding of environmental best practices.
• Be emersed in industry best practices and standards such as: Vulnerability Life Cycle, OWASP Top 10, NIST, CISA, SANS, CVSS Scoring.
• Develop, manage, and measure metrics to understand the trends, quality, and insights from the vulnerability results to facilitate business decisions, automation development, and update of executive dashboards, reports, and templates.
• Assist team members with ticket queue management by taking responsibility for and delegating tickets to the team.
• Provide a cybersecurity partnership with the business to ensure proper implementation of protections toward current and future projects.
• Under direction and per procedures, perform required tasks and coordinate with IT and Vulnerability Management team and SOC team members.
• Coordinate architecture and engineering activities with other IT teams as well as internal organizations in an efficient and professional manner. Lead vulnerability management efforts in the detection, triage, tooling expansion, data aggregation and reporting processes, tooling, and automation.
• Develop and manage ongoing process improvements and backlog to the entire scan program well coordinating globally to ensure success.
• Actively contribute to business architecture, requirements, reporting and analytic configurations, and processes, ticketing, and proposed roadmap tools.
• Develop cross-functional team relationships to become trusted point of contact and liaison for inquiries, subject matter expert coordinating all issues, capability gaps, and enhancement requests in the product.
• In this role, this position will assist the Security Operations Center in maturing and developing a vulnerability program.
• This individual will work with key stakeholders to establish vulnerability and patch management practices to ensure the execution of these functions tighten the security posture within the State of Maine.
• Fill in other security functions as directed by the Security Operations Center Manager.
• Uses a reactive approach to security that focuses on prevention, detection, and remediations of vulnerabilities.

Security Operation Center Analyst Required Skills:

• Must have at least 10 years of information security experience, with a focus on risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, and security testing within an enterprise environment.

• Must have experience with Endpoint Security and Incident Response
• Must have experience with Application Testing
• Must have experience with Vulnerability Management

Preferred:

• The ideal candidate will have knowledge of Windows or Linux systems and their associated scripting (PowerShell, python, bash) languages, experience with AWS or Azure cloud environments.

• Possess experience with vulnerability and manual testing following OWASP Top 10 products such as Tenable Nessus, Rapid 7 InsightVM, HCL App Scan, MDVM, Qualys, Burp Suite, ZAP or similar.

• The ideal candidate will have experience in both application scanning and device vulnerability management procedures.

• Preferred Education: 4-year college degree in computer science or a related field with advanced study preferred

• One or more relevant technical security certifications are a plus (GIAC, ISC2, CompTIA, EC Counsil, etc.)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability.

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