Junior Information Security Analyst – Incident Response

University of Kansas Medical Center; United States; Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Retirement program

Job summary

University of Kansas Medical Center is seeking an Information Security Analyst I to join the Information Security team. You will monitor security events, analyze incidents, and support incident response and remediation to protect data assets across networks, endpoints, and infrastructure.

The role requires hands-on troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration with IT staff to enforce security requirements and manage risks associated with new technology and security exceptions.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years’ experience in information security or related field.
• One (1) year of progressive work experience in information technology or information security.
• Experience working with networking architectures, topologies, practices, and technologies.
• Experience handling information involving privacy and confidentiality and applying appropriate judgment in its use and disclosure.

Responsibilities

• Perform real-time security log and event analysis and take action within defined parameters to contain and mitigate threats and elevate based upon severity.
• Develop and maintain security operations documentation, including procedures, playbooks, escalation paths, and incident records.
• Develop strategies and plans with leadership to enforce security requirements and address identified risks.
• Detect and report residual risks, vulnerabilities, and other security exposures to IS management, including misuse of information assets and noncompliance.
• Review security authorization and exception requests, provide risk-based recommendations, and elevate requests that exceed established approval authority.
• Monitor reports and security logs for unusual events.
• Investigate events and data to determine appropriate resolution.
• Research and assess new threats and security alerts and recommend remedial actions.
• Monitor KUMC’s networks for security breaches and investigate violations.
• Monitor intrusion detection and prevention systems, network vulnerability systems, antivirus, and encryption systems.
• Respond to and elevate events and maintain documented monitoring and response processes.
• Analyze logs from a variety of source systems to construct the narrative of a security incident.
• Support information security incident management activities, including triage, investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, documentation and post-incident review.
• Provide future support and guidance to IT support staff and users on security issues.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Organization

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, engineering, telecommunications, systems administration, or another related technical field

Job description

University of Kansas Medical Center is seeking an Information Security Analyst I to join the Information Security team. You will monitor security events, analyze incidents, and support incident response and remediation to protect data assets across networks, endpoints, and infrastructure.

The role requires hands-on troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration with IT staff to enforce security requirements and manage risks associated with new technology and security exceptions.