IT Security Specialist

14 hours ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Illinois Institute of Technology Full time
Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Security Specialist to join our Cyber-Tech Security department at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This is a full-time position with normal university business hours from 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday.

Salary:$60,000 - $80,000 per year, depending on experience.

About the Job

The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of risk management frameworks, compliance standards, and governance processes. Key responsibilities include analyzing security incidents, collaborating with product teams and vendors, performing and managing IT risk assessments, and ensuring that IT security design, controls, processes, and procedures are aligned with information security standards.

Main Responsibilities

  • Analyze security incidents as an incident responder, indicators of compromise, and breaches to determine possible impact, origin, and resolution.
  • Collaborate with product teams and vendors to ensure secure configuration and deployment of systems and applications.
  • Perform and manage IT risk assessments to support requirements of various security frameworks.
  • Ensure that IT security design, controls, processes, and procedures are aligned with information security standards, guidelines, and policies to maintain systems security plans.
  • Facilitate the overall planning, execution, and reporting of risk assessments, as well as compliance and regulatory requirements, and maintain existing compliance accreditations.
  • Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and controls, recommend constructive corrective actions to address control deficiencies identified through compliance audits to strengthen IT security posture, and improve IT processes.
  • Perform industry research on new compliance requests.
  • Perform other duties as may be assigned.
Requirements

To be considered for this role, you must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT/IS/MIS, or related field. Additionally, you should have 1-3 years of experience in information technology or information security. Familiarity with security tools and technologies, including SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, data-loss prevention (DLP), CIS benchmarks, forensic tools, Anti-virus/Anti-malware protection, encryption technologies, cloud services, mobile devices, etc., is also required.

Key Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT/IS/MIS, or related.
  • 1-3 years of experience in information technology or information security.
  • Familiarity with security tools and technologies, including SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, data-loss prevention (DLP), CIS benchmarks, forensic tools, Anti-virus/Anti-malware protection, encryption technologies, cloud services, mobile devices, etc.
  • Ability to produce operations documentation (SOP's, wiki pages, etc.).
  • Familiarity with Agile project management best practices.
  • Previous experience as an Incident Response team member.

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