Senior Analyst Information Security Consulting - Vulnerability Detection

Description: Job Summary:

This role provides recommendations to management and business stakeholders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across regions or domains. This includes supporting the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state and documenting comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of proposed solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.


• Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.


• Effectively communicates investigative findings to non-technical audiences.


• Collaborates with technology risk teams and business stakeholders to respond to and remediate identified issues, and determine the best approach for improving security posture.


• Provides recommendations to management and business stakeholders on how to remediate issues identified through security testing processes.


• Identifies the impact of security test plans on upstream and downstream solution components.


• Supports information sharing and integration procedures across cyber security through the exchange of threat intelligence and cyber security vulnerability assessment data.


• Contributes to cyber security intellectual capital by making process or procedure improvements, conducting brown bag training sessions, and creating new training documents.


• Follows established processes to ensure KPI goals are obtained and performance metrics are tracked on an ongoing basis.


• Recommends business line or business technology team security process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.


• Supports continuous process improvement by participating in the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized security tools, templates, and processes across multiple business domains.


• Performs complex security test data analysis in support of security vulnerability assessment processes, including root cause analysis.


• Serves as an escalation point on issues, dependencies, and risks related to security testing.


• Executes the vulnerability assessment and penetration testing plan, methodologies, and standard processes for moderately to highly complex technology initiatives across multiple IT domains by analyzing business and technology requirements.


• Researches and stays abreast of industry trends, emerging threats, best practices, and cutting edge techniques to creatively discover and exploit vulnerabilities, and recommend security solutions for technology systems.


• Provides insight and consultation on the development of testing scope and approach, and collaborates with cross-functional IT and business stakeholders to review the overall testing approach.


• Validates security test scenarios across various SDLC phases (e.g., development, reproduction, production) for low- to moderately-complex projects.


• Generates scheduled reports (e.g., status updates, risk assessment reports, remediation reports) and provides regular security metrics to IT teams and management as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum two (2) years in information security, network engineering, or application development. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years experience performing vulnerability assessments of IT technologies.
• One (1) year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above)
• Two (2) years work experience requiring the development of technical documents or presentations.
• Two (2) years experience in cyber security data analytics.
• Three (3) years software or application development experience.
• Two (2) years experience in Windows/Intel administration or Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA).
• Two (2) years experience in UNIX/Linux administration.

Primary Location: Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 10 Piedmont
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Remote
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Specialty: IS Consulting
Department: KPIT ADMIN - CYBER TESTING - 9601
Pay Range: $123400 - $159610 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: No
Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest

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