Senior Security Analyst

at CliftonLArsonAllen in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Our Perks:
Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!)
Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
Paid Volunteer Time Off
Mental health coverage
Quarterly Wellness stipend
Fertility benefits
Complete list of benefits here

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Security Analyst to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

How you'll create opportunities in this Senior Security Analyst role:
Business Solutions: Acts in a supporting role to the Lead Security Analysts, Business Analysts, and Technical Leads on strategic IT projects. Research and references security policy, renders recommendations and guidance, approves or rejects project artifacts from a security perspective, and performs other tasks in the pursuit of securing systems, processes, procedures, and software applications. This role will often interface with IT peers, IT Leadership and Business Relationship Managers to understand and improve cybersecurity, as it relates to IT security and various CLA Service Lines. They must be able to communicate effectively to target audiences across both the business and technical stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging. They assist the project managers in the creation and documentation of project requirements while ensuring the secure design principles are met. This role works with the CLA technical teams to forecast and assist in road mapping technologies, assist in developing strategic plans from which security standards can be established and enforced. Assesses requirements and translates them into secure system guidelines and high-level technical requirements.
Technical team Initiatives: They will guide and counsel technical teams, with guidance from the Lead Security Analyst, in performing implementation activities, and review implementation outcomes, to ensure secure design compliance. Other responsibilities include validating controls for Encryption, Access Control, Web Application Vulnerability Detection, OWASP top 10 and other common web application security parameters. Provides peer review of technology initiatives. Creates documentation around security initiatives as required
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) experience, preferable Microsoft Purview or Zscaler.
Strong scripting experience with PowerShell or comparable scripting language.
Incident Response experience.
Azure security configuration and management
Experience with vulnerability management
Business Solutions: Acts in a supporting role to the Lead Security Analysts, Business Analysts, and Technical Leads on strategic IT projects. Research and references security policy, renders recommendations and guidance, approves or rejects project artifacts from a security perspective, and performs other tasks in the pursuit of securing systems, processes, procedures, and software applications. This role will often interface with IT peers, IT Leadership and Business Relationship Managers to understand and improve cybersecurity, as it relates to IT security and various CLA Service Lines. They must be able to communicate effectively to target audiences across both the business and technical stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging. They assist the project managers in the creation and documentation of project requirements while ensuring the secure design principles are met. This role works with the CLA technical teams to forecast and assist in road mapping technologies, assist in developing strategic plans from which security standards can be established and enforced. Assesses requirements and translates them into secure system guidelines and high-level technical... For full info follow application link.

CLA is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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