IT Security Analyst - Financial Services (NYC Onsite)

iO Associates; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

iO Associates is seeking an IT Security Analyst to identify, remediate, and reduce security risk across networks, endpoints, servers and core infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment. The role covers vulnerability management, patching, security monitoring, and audit support, with onsite in NYC and hybrid options.

You will drive incident response, support audits, and help maintain disaster recovery documentation while collaborating with IT and business teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline.
• 5+ years in a similar security analyst role within a reputable financial services environment.
• Practical experience with vulnerability management and remediation workflows.
• Exposure to patch management, security monitoring, and audit support.
• Cloud experience preferred.
• CISSP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Run vulnerability scanning, track findings, and drive remediation across infrastructure and end user environments.
• Investigate and resolve security vulnerabilities on networks, servers, workstations, and security appliances.
• Monitor and respond to security alerts (including SOC escalations).
• Support penetration testing activity and manage exceptions through to closure.
• Assist with internal and external security audits, including evidence gathering and remediation of audit findings.
• Maintain and improve incident response and disaster recovery documentation from a security perspective.
• Manage security access monitoring for end users and support security policy enforcement.
• Work with third party vendors to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Recommend security enhancements and contribute to security standards, policies, and procedures.
• Support wider IT environment as needed (servers, desktops, network equipment, telephony, software deployment).

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Incident response

Audit support

Patch management

Security policy enforcement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

iO Associates is seeking an IT Security Analyst to identify, remediate, and reduce security risk across networks, endpoints, servers and core infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment. The role covers vulnerability management, patching, security monitoring, and audit support, with onsite in NYC and hybrid options.

You will drive incident response, support audits, and help maintain disaster recovery documentation while collaborating with IT and business teams.