Information Security Analyst - Security Monitoring (Remote)

Folsom, CA, United States

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California ISO

The California ISO manages the flow of electricity on high-voltage power lines, operates a wholesale energy market, and oversees infrastructure planning.

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Company Description

The California Independent System Operator (ISO) manages the flow of electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines that make up 80 percent of California's power grid. We safeguard the economy and well-being of 30 million Californians by operating the grid reliably 24/7.

As the impartial grid operator, the California ISO opens access to the wholesale power market that is designed to diversify resources and lower prices. It also grants equal access to 25,865 circuit-miles of power lines and reduces barriers to diverse resources competing to bring power to customers.

The California ISO's function is often compared to that of air traffic controllers. It would be grossly unfair for air traffic controllers to represent one airline and profit from allowing that company's planes to go through before others. In the same way, the California ISO operates independently—managing the electron traffic on a power grid we do not own—making sure electricity is safely delivered to utilities and consumers on time and reliably.

The California ISO is committed to the health, safety, and work/life integration of it employees and is proud to offer flexible work arrangements. This position would be eligible to participate in a hybrid or fully remote schedule.

Job Description

Under the general direction of the Manager, provides subject matter expertise in a broad range of information security disciplines and provides direction and guidance in the areas of change and configuration monitoring.  Supports the change and configuration management policies.  Ensures information security best practices are integrated into the change and configuration management processes and ensures systems are configured for optimal support security monitoring. Actively looks for and discovers new potential cyber threats and vulnerabilities and participates in security incident response activities.

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Maintain, improve and develop vendor supported and customized organizational processes supporting information security monitoring of asset, patch, network, vulnerability, change and configuration management.
  • Prepares for and participates in threat hunting and security incident response activities.  This includes working with ISO support teams to develop response readiness.
  • Develops and integrates consistent security and compliance monitoring processes with information security related policies, processes, metrics, and methods across the organization.
  • Partners with ISO Network and System Administrators to ensure systems are configured to provide optimal support security monitoring.
  • Supports the Enterprise Information Security Program: assessing methods and recommending improvements on metrics in Enterprise Information Security Management practices.
  • Participates in the development and management of the Information Security strategic direction to improve the information security posture and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the ISO’s information assets is maintained.

Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline:

A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

Amount of Experience:

Equivalent years of education and training, plus two (2) or more years related experience.

Certifications:

Current CISSP, CISA or CISM professional certifications, or the ability to attain one within one (1) year of employment. Tripwire Enterprise Administrator Certification desired. Tripwire Enterprise Administration training preferred.

Type of Experience

Intermediate skills in supporting at least one (1) of the following disciplines: asset, patch, network, vulnerability, change or configuration management. Intermediate troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Current Tripwire Enterprise administration. Intermediate skills understanding of IPv4 internetworking principles. Intermediate to advanced, current experience with scripting languages including, but not limited to, PowerShell, VBScript and PERL. intermediate experience with a wide array of operating system and internetworking devices including, but not limited to, Unix, Windows and Cisco. Beginner to intermediate experience with MS SQL and Oracle database principles, including queries, view building and stored procedures. Beginner to intermediate experience with web API data collection using scripting. Intermediate to Advanced Excel function skills.

Additional skills and abilities:

Must be actively curious about the business and IT environment you will help protect. Must be able to work effectively in a team environment as facilitator and team member.  Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication and documentation skills required, with a demonstrated attention to detail.  Excellent planning and organizational skills.  Ability to use deductive reasoning and analytical thinking with sound judgment and decision-making skills.  Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills are also essential.  Must be self-starting and willing and able to work independently in a dynamic corporate organization under pressure of tight deadlines and aggressive expectations.  Self-motivated, problem solving skills and the ability to influence others without direct authority.

Additional Information

The pay range for this position is $40.64 - $67.73 / hour.

**We will also consider this position at the Senior level, which requires A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent years of education, training, or Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, plus five (5) or more years related experience. The pay range for the senior level is $107,925 - $179,875 / year.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Tags: APIs CISA CISM CISSP Compliance Computer Science Incident response Monitoring MSSQL Oracle Perl PowerShell Scripting SQL Tripwire UNIX Vulnerabilities Windows

Perks/benefits: Flex hours Team events

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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Category: Analyst Jobs

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