Identity Defense Analyst

Open to new opportunities?! Cybersecurity Identity Defense Analyst for a Top 20 Fortune 500 company!! Hybrid in Denver, CO

Description :

Our client's Identity Defense team aims to mitigate incidents through monitoring of network account usage, authentication activities and authentication behaviors.

The team is responsible to reduce the risk associated with misuse or illicit use of accounts which grants access to our client's workforce network.

An Identity Defense analyst is accountable for researching, designing, engineering, implementing, and supporting solutions to prevent and detect anomalous use of accounts.

Role Responsibilities

The Identity Defense Specialist will support design efforts to build out new processes, controls, and supporting governance related to implementation of human and non-human account monitoring to protect the client.

You will utilize in-depth technical knowledge and business requirements to help implement scalable solutions, inclusive of monitoring, alerting, and escalation frameworks focused on core account protections.

Leveraging your knowledge of both common and emerging threats related to account take-over, you will have an opportunity to proactively develop, implement, and influence controls and policy within the digital identity domain.

You will partner with leaders from line of business organizations to triage security events and report on impacting security incidents.

The Analyst will regularly collaborate with experts in and out of our team, both in country and in other regions, so excellent communication skills are very important.

The role will also involve discussion with employees as part of alert analysis and disposition. If you are seeking a demanding role within Global Information Security (GIS) and have the required skills, this will be a great opportunity for you.

Typically, applicants should have 3+ years of cybersecurity or engineering experience. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Actively investigate alerts related to potentially anomalous behavior / activity.
• Confidently and professionally interview / question users to determine or confirm root cause.
• Communicate effectively with response and business partners.
• Build and monitor Splunk alerting and dashboards.
• Identify areas for further process automation, simplification, and improvement.
• Provide status updates for executives and stakeholders in non-technical terms encompassing risk, impact, containment, remediation, etc.
• Risk management.
• Comprehensively document analysis, investigative activities, actions, etc.

Skills :

incident response, identity management, cloud, aws, azure

Additional Skills & Qualifications :

• Supportive and can work well as part of a team as well as independently.
• Can remain calm under pressure.
• Ability to work in a strong team-orientated environment with a sense of urgency and resilience.
• Critical thinking - must be able to think outside the box and develop solutions to accomplish seemingly impossible tasks while remaining risk and objective focused.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment; ability to be decisive and take action without causing an undue delay.

Experience Level : Intermediate Level

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems :

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity.

We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change.

That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.