Network Security Analyst @ TX Dept of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)

4+ month contract - Strong potential to extend/convert

Austin, TX, onsite

This position requires the ability to perform moderately complex (journey-level) cybersecurity analysis work, essential for TDLR to fulfill its mission of service to the citizens of Texas. Work involves protecting cybersecurity assets and delivering cybersecurity incident detection, incident response, threat assessment, cyber intelligence, software security, and vulnerability assessment services.

This position also requires analysis of cybersecurity threat indicators and their behaviors, and research and implement new security risk and threat mitigation strategies, tools, techniques, and solutions for the prevention, detection, containment, and correction of data security breaches; monitoring agency systems, reporting anomalous activity or malicious traffic, and perform cybersecurity incident detection, analysis, and prevention; assist in administration of security tools; and assisting in conducting vulnerability scans of networks and applications to assess effectiveness and identify weaknesses; assist in identifying and evaluating new cybersecurity technologies to identify and remediate vulnerabilities; and providing input on improving network, server, workstation and application security.

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Years Required/Preferred Experience 2 Required Information security analysis work or related IT security work 4 Preferred Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in information technology security, information assurance, computer information systems, computer science, management information systems, or a related field is generally 2 Preferred with a cybersecurity architecture and data flow documentation 2 Preferred with a Vulnerability Management programs 2 Preferred doing web application security scans/assessments 2 Preferred with custom dashboards and/or configurations of SIEM tools 2 Preferred With patching Windows based computers, using WSUS, SCCM or other tools/patch management programs

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Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
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