Weekend Vulnerability Analyst Jobs in Riverside, CA

What you can expect! 

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Reporting to the Manager, Information Security Operations, the Engineer III - Security Analyst services as a senior cybersecurity practitioner and consultant, advancing the organization's defensive posture across on-premises and cloud environments. This position maintains and improves security policies, standards, procedures, and response playbooks; produces clear incident documentation, root-cause analyses, and after-action review; and collaborates with business stakeholders to align security controls with organizational requirements. The Engineer III - Security Analyst mentors team members, evaluates emerging technologies, and champions continues improvement to mature security operations and ensure best practices. This position provides guidance to business units and technology stakeholders during the deployment of critical business and technology initiatives utilizing deep understanding of global threat actors and their tactics, techniques, and procedures employed during cyberattacks. This position supports various Information Technology Security functional areas related to one or more of the following: Application Security, Security Operations and Vulnerability.

Commitment to Quality: The IEHP Team is committed to incorporate IEHP's Quality Program goals including, but not limited to, HEDIS, CAHPS, and NCQA Accreditation.

Perks

IEHP is not only committed to healing and inspiring the human spirit of our Members, but we also aim to match our team members with the same energy by providing prime benefits and more.

• Competitive salary
• State of the art fitness center on-site
• Medical Insurance with Dental and Vision
• Life, short-term, and long-term disability options
• Career advancement opportunities and professional development
• Wellness programs that promote a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible Spending Account - Health Care/Childcare
• CalPERS retirement
• 457(b) option with a contribution match
• Paid life insurance for employees
• Pet care insurance

• Monitor firewalls, network and host intrusion prevention/detection systems, virtual private networks, threat intelligence platforms, endpoint protection, security training platforms, email security, forensic tools, public/private/hybrid cloud infrastructure, identity and access management systems, and physical security systems.
• Monitor security operations center tools and dashboards.
• Perform threat hunting activities using security operations center tools across the environment using internal or   external threat intelligence sources.
• Architect cybersecurity solutions for on-premises and cloud computing environments.
• Participate in and/or leads cybersecurity engineering projects.
• Assist with risk analysis activities.
• Assist with designing and implementing controls to mitigate risk.
• Identify attack surface reduction opportunities through vulnerability data analysis and/or identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• Perform any other duties as required to ensure Health Plan operations and department business needs are successful.

Security Operations:

• Monitor security systems and provide early response to potential threats.
• Manage security incident response; serve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and TTPs.
• Design, test, and implement response playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations.
• Research, recommend and test new security technologies and platforms
• Analyze technologies and establish highly effective processes and protocols to ensure comprehensive protection exists to prevent unauthorized entry into company networks and systems.
• Support automation and orchestration to maximize team talent and reduce routine tasks.
• Drive creation of countermeasures to protect company personnel and information assets.
• Document, prioritize, and formally report incidents, root cause analyses, and after-action reviews.
• Coordinate between internal and external resources protecting enterprise systems.
• Periodically attend and participate in change management policy discussions and meetings.
• Validate and improve the effectiveness of preventative controls and incident response utilizing the understanding of breach and attack simulation solutions.
• Motivate employees to maximize rigorous system security controls, focusing on reducing complexity and maturing security practices.

Vulnerability:

• Work analytically to solve both tactical and strategic problems within the vulnerability management program.
• Plan, develop, configure, and execute vulnerability scans on a wide variety of corporate and business information systems both on prem and cloud based.
• Mature the vulnerability management program in collaboration with other Information Security teams.
• Respond to tickets and incidents in a proactive manner.
• Collect and aggregate information from a wide variety of sources and formats for relevance to our environment; monitors and provides metrics on threat level of vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate and communicate with Compliance, Internal Audit, the Business teams, and others to identify, analyze, and communicate risk; and provide support around vulnerability management within their business requirements.
• Identify, develop, and implement mechanisms to detect vulnerabilities and how they may lead to corporate incidents to enhance compliance with and support of security standards and procedures.
• Coordinate with the Incident Response team to remediate security incidents as needed.
• Collaborate with business areas and project teams to develop security solutions that address compliance requirements that may impact security.
• Work with information systems owners and administrators to understand their security needs and assist with implementing practices and procedures consistent with security policies.
• Build and maintain supplier partnerships to further the company mission and goals.
• Create and maintain environmental documentation, tasks, change records, etc.
• Act as the lead advocate internally and externally for compliance on security measures to protect corporate applications and environments.

Application Security:

• Perform Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).
• Perform application security testing on various types of applications such as Web, API's, Thick Client's, Mobile, etc., inclusive of the supporting infrastructure components.
• Leverage application artifacts such as business requirements, user stories, design documents, architecture documents to understand the testing scope and create targeted security user stories or misuse cases.
• Manage and execute security assessments for multiple projects simultaneously and ensure project timelines are met.
• Analyze source code to mitigate identified weaknesses and vulnerabilities within the system.
• Ensure containerization security best practices are maintained and vulnerabilities are addressed.

Education & Requirements 

• A minimum of eight (8) years of IT experience required with at least five (5) years in a cybersecurity role with a focus on protect, detect, and respond in addition to the following:
• Mitre ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks
• Establishing or participating in Blue Team exercises
• Computer operating systems such as Windows, MacOS and Linux
• System development lifecycle
• Deploying, managing, and using Security Operations tools such as SIEM, EPM, DLP, Vulnerability Management, Firewalls, WAFs, Antivirus Solutions, Email Protection Solutions, Incident Response and Threat hunting and management
• Scripting experience such as PowerShell, JavaScript, or Python
• Experience working with Identity and Access Control Management Tools
• Associate's degree with a major in computer-related field or similar technical field from an accredited institution required
• In lieu of the required degree, a minimum of two (2) years of cybersecurity work experience is required
• This experience is in addition to the minimum years listed in the Experience Requirements above
• Relevant security certifications preferred

Key Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge and deep understanding of the following:
  • SIEM and SOAR
  • ATT&ACK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks
  • Blue Teaming
  • Endpoint protection technologies
  • Cloud technologies
  • OSI Model layers, IP Routing, TCP/IP Operation
  • Scripting experience such as PowerShell, JavaScript, or Python
  • Computer forensics knowledge and experience
  • Security standards such as HIPAA, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, Zero Trust Architecture, and others
  • Vulnerability scanning technologies
  • Security monitoring and incident response
  • Risk analysis and risk mitigation strategies
  • Networking technologies and networking protocols with an emphasis on TCP/IP
  • Defense in Depth strategies
  • Security Operations Tools such as SIEM, EPM, DLP, Vulnerability scanners, Firewalls, WAFs, Antivirus Solutions, Email Protection Solutions, Incident Response and Threat Management
  • Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and associated tactics
  • Identifying indicators of compromise and indicators of attack
  • Vulnerability management
  • Cloud security and/or technologies
  • Computer operating systems such as Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Strong planning, organization, critical thinking, decision-making and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Proven ability to:
  • Work as a member of a team
  • Show willingness to be flexible and adaptable to change in a dynamic work environment
  • Contribute and participate in team activities and planning regarding improving team skills, awareness, communication, reputation, and quality of work
  • Learn and apply new concepts
  • Work within a team to consistently learn and share advanced skills and foster team excellence
  • Stay up to date with current knowledge of industry trends and standards.
• Projects involving lift server appliance weights up to 50 lbs.; back brace must be worn with lifting 50 pounds or heavier

Start your journey towards a thriving future with IEHP and apply TODAY!

This position is on a hybrid work schedule. (Mon & Fri - remote, Tues - Thurs onsite in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.)