Technology Security Analyst

Overview

Alera Group is looking for a motivated Technology Security Analyst who brings experience and enthusiasm that fits well in a rapidly growing enterprise company.

Are you looking to be part of a company where you have exciting opportunities to learn, grow, and make a positive impact? Join a team where each employee is empowered to listen generously, speak straight, collaborate, and build each other up through mutual accountability and shared success.

If that is what you’re looking for, this is your chance to be part of an amazing organization!

Alera Group was created by the merging of high-performing, entrepreneurial firms across the country. Alera Group owns several registered investment advisers. Alera Group’s business model is motivated by the desire to find a better way to serve clients nationally without losing the independent thinking and values of our founding firms.

The Technology Security Analyst is responsible for Alera Group Security Operations. All secure operations-related projects, planning, and support will run through security operations. This department oversees secure operations of both the corporate environment as well as most of our acquired firms. This role handles project management, communications, scheduling, SOPs, as well as the daily workload of the team and removes obstacles or impediments facing them.

Responsibilities

• Understand how traffic flows on the network - and extended remote and cloud systems
• Be accountable for security alerts
• Ability to detect threats and report vulnerabilities in a manner that ensures the organization remains protected from attacks
• Manage the effects of incidents and reduce the impact of breaches
• Collect data from multiple systems, analyze, correlate events, and report security data in a systematic way with a clean chain of evidence
• Understanding and capable of using PowerShell, Python, XQL scripting languages
• Ability to read and understand basic operation and actions taken by software programs, and at higher levels of skills, should learn to reverse engineer malware
  
  

Qualifications

• 3+ years direct enterprise-level work experience in a security role
• Bachelor's degree in the fields of information security, computer science, business administration, information systems or related field
• Extensive knowledge of PowerShell, Python, and/or other automation and scripting tools
• Extensive project experience in building integrated security solutions
• Extensive experience with SOAR SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Privileged Access, DLP, and other security concepts and tooling
• Familiar with SOC 2 Type II, PCI, HIPAA, and other industry standard compliance and regulatory frameworks
• Microsoft Office and Visio
• ITIL Standards
• Solid understanding of security concepts, processes, and terminology
• Strong organizational skills, with proven experience prioritizing work and coordinating several projects at one time
• Strong interpersonal skills - communication, documentation, proactively communicates potential concerns, accountability, collaboration, strong time management skills
• Ability to effectively interface with technical groups as well as business teams, both in person and remotely
• Intellectual curiosity and passion for problem-solving
• High energy with the ability to prioritize and a desire to work in a results-oriented, fast-growth environment
• Ability to be on call and work off-hours, as needed
  
  

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits to employees, including medical, dental, STD, LTD, life insurance, 401k, paid time off and much more.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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