Cybersecurity Analyst Senior

Quivera Enterprises, LLC; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tribally owned company

Job summary

Wichita Tribal Enterprises, LLC, a Quivera Enterprises company, seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to lead security operations across networks and endpoints. The role focuses on assessing, hardening, and defending systems while aligning security with business needs.

You will deploy and maintain NIDS/NIPS, HIDS/HIPS, NAC platforms, and SIEM solutions, develop content, automate tasks via scripting, and collaborate with engineering to optimize performance across cyber defense systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of broad work experience in security administration, engineering, and operations.
• 5+ years in security technology administration.
• Certifications required within the first year of employment (CISSP, GIAC, Security+, MCSE)

Responsibilities

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and balance conflicting demands.
• Strong sense of professionalism, integrity, and ethics.
• Protect assets by combining technical skills with business understanding.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Assess and harden security configurations for OS, applications, and services.
• Understand and handle STIG controls and audits as scheduled by Government agencies.
• Administer NIDS/NIPS and NAC systems (ForeScout CounterAct).
• Administer HIDS/HIPS and SIEM (e.g., Splunk) and perform content tuning.
• Develop, tune, and deploy SIEM content and signatures; support automation via scripting.

Skills

NIDS/NIPS

HIDS/HIPS

SIEM

Scripting (Automation)

System hardening

Security architectures

Communication skills

Education

7+ years in security administration/engineering

5+ years in security technology administration

Tools

ForeScout CounterAct

Splunk

NAC platforms

STIG compliance tools

Job description

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Cybersecurity Analyst Senior

Wichita Tribal Enterprises, LLC, a Quivera Enterprises company, is seeking an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Administrator. This role requires a highly professional security specialist capable of managing multiple projects while aligning technical capabilities with business needs. The position focuses on assessing and hardening systems as well as administering key security technologies, including NIDS/NIPS, HIDS/HIPS, NAC platforms, and SIEM solutions. Responsibilities include developing and tuning security content, automating processes through scripting, integrating new systems with engineering teams, and optimizing performance across IDS and SIEM environments. The role also involves deploying, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting a wide range of cyber defense systems across servers, network components, workstations, and related infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and balance conflicting demands.
• Strong sense of professionalism, integrity, and ethics
• Ability to combine technical skills with an understanding of business needs to successfully protect assets.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience assessing and hardening security configurations for operating systems, applications, and services.
• Experience in understanding and handling STIG controls
• Experience in performing STIG audits as scheduled by Government agency
• Administration of Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (NIDS & NIPS)
• Administration of Network Access Control (NAC) Systems such as ForeScout CounterAct
• Administration of Host Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (HIDS & HIPS)
• Administration of/and deployment of Security Information Event Management System (SIEM), such as Splunk
• IDS, IPS, SIEM content management, policy tuning and signature development
• Ad-hoc scripting supporting process automation and data analysis.
• New system integration and coordination with engineering
• Resource utilization analysis and performance tuning of IDS & SIEM servers & applications
• Experience with virtualization technologies
• Experience in the deployment, operation, maintenance, upgrading and troubleshooting/repair of cyber defense systems to include but not limited to network components, servers, analyst workstations, CND associated hardware and software.

Required Qualifications

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Tier 2,
• Public Trust background investigation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withDOI
• Knowledge of FIPS and NIST compliance and regulations.

Education Requirements

• 7+ years of broad work experience including administration, engineering, and security.
• 5+ years of experience in security technology administration

Certifications required within the first year of employment (at least one).

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
• Security+
• MCSE

Physical Demands – IT Office/Technical Role

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee, with or without reasonable accommodation.

This role is primarily office-based and requires prolonged computer use, including sitting, typing, and operating standard office equipment. Occasional walking, standing, bending, and reaching may be required to support equipment setup and troubleshooting. The employee must be able to lift up to 15 pounds, with occasional heavier lifting.

The employee must be able to communicate effectively and maintain visual acuity (close, distance, color, and depth perception). Occasional travel and extended hours may be required to support operational needs and deadlines.

Quivera Enterprises LLC and its subsidiaries are 100% tribally owned and SBA-certified Small Disadvantaged Businesses. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

As a tribally owned organization, Quivera Enterprises and its subsidiaries may apply Indian Preference in accordance with applicable tribal, federal, and contractual requirements where authorized by law.