Cyber Threat Analyst jobs in Huntsville, AL

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Security Consultant, you'll unleash your exceptional technical prowess to gather and analyze business and technical requirements, skillfully crafting and implementing resilient Enterprise-wide Access Management processes and procedures.
As an esteemed member of our collaborative advisory team, your pivotal contribution will be crucial in establishing comprehensive security measures, ensuring the safeguarding of our clients' invaluable intellectual property and assets.

Your responsibilities may encompass:

Network and Endpoint Security: Knowledge of network and endpoint security concepts to integrate DLP solutions effectively within your organization's infrastructure.
Incident Response Skills: The capability to respond to DLP incidents promptly, investigate data breaches, and implement corrective actions.
Collaboration and Communication: Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, and compliance departments.
Adaptability and Learning: Willingness and ability to stay updated with the latest DLP technologies and security trends to adapt to evolving threats and challenges.
Analytical Thinking: Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze complex DLP issues and devise innovative solutions.

• This role requires shift work with a rotating schedule. The shift hours will alternate between 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM and 9:00 PM to 9:00 AM, following a 2 days on, 3 days off pattern.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5 years of ForcePoint DLP Engineering / administration experience
• 3 years of management of ForcePoint within a Federal environment
• Experience with designing and implementing DLP policies and controls to meet federal security requirements and protect sensitive information. Knowledge of security frameworks including such as MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, & NIST.
• Hands-on troubleshooting, analysis, and technical expertise to resolve incidents and/or service requests.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to articulate technical security analysis to a non-technical audience
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including security analysts, system administrators, and network engineers, to integrate ForcePoint and DLP solutions into existing environments.
• Understanding of possible attack activities such as network reconnaissance probing/ scanning, DDoS, malicious code activity, etc.
• Able to troubleshoot and be a problem solver with analytical proficiency in Linux

Compliance with DoD 8570.01 and DoD 8140.01
One of the following certifications: CEH, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CySA , GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, Cloud , SCYBER, PenTest


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong written communication skills and the ability to articulate technical security analysis to a non-technical audience.
• Understanding of enterprise environments, specifically cloud-based and hybrid cloud environments.