Security Analyst jobs in Idaho Falls, ID

About the Company

Country Supplier is the home of two familiar brands: CAL Ranch Stores in Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona, and Coastal Farm and Ranch in Washington and Oregon. Operating 55 stores combined, Country Supplier offers retail agriculture, sporting goods, and more to our communities, driven by a mission statement that includes the directive to provide legendary customer service to their customers. The outlook is positive, and there is a vision of consistent growth over the next five years.

About the Team

Expanding on that mission statement, our IT Department focuses on creating proactive, preventative solutions, and positive relationships with our customers. By being proactive, the team can address technical issues before they become incidents, reducing customer frustration. Preventative measures ensure that we are helping the company and our customers to achieve its goals, and positive relationships increase trust and collaborative efforts, which is especially important when providing remote support. Our team is growing both in scale, and in skill to support the company’s growth.

Position Description

A qualified Cyber Security Analyst will be responsible for leading the IT Departments efforts in hardening our company’s technology resources. They will be the primary contact for security specific vendors, and be actively engaged in security consoles, identifying risks in our endpoints, servers, users, and networks and assisting in the efforts to mitigate those risks. They will find opportunities to optimize security, including ensuring that we are utilizing our resources properly. The Cyber Security Analyst will ensure that our endpoint, server and network resources continue to be PCI compliant, and will be the primary individual reporting on PCI compliance.

Position Responsibilities

• Monitor endpoint security agents to ensure all devices are protected.
• Monitor endpoint security agents to mitigate any identified risks.
• Monitor network security agents to mitigate identified risks.
• Monitor security bulletins and resources for critical patch notices.
• Document and train operations staff on secure procedures.
• Assist in creating security policy.
• Engage in user training.
• Direct security efforts of IT department.
• Researches and implements new security risk and mitigation strategies, tools, techniques, and solutions for the prevention, detection, containment, and correction of data security breaches.

Position Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in cyber security.
• Preferred experience in cyber security administration.
• Knowledge of emergency patching procedures.
• Preferred experience in incident response and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge and experience in root-cause analysis.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Initiative-taking and independent time management.

Ability to resolve complex security issues in diverse and decentralized environments; to plan, develop, monitor, and maintain cybersecurity and information technology security processes and controls; to communicate effectively; and to supervise the work of others.