Network Security Analyst

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Job Title: Network Security Analyst I

Company: Cayuse Civil Services, LLC

Location: Austin, TX

Salary: $65,124.80 - $93,038.40

Employee Type: Full-Time Salary Exempt

Travel: No

Relocation: No

Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client.

The Network Security Analyst I will play a pivotal role in ensuring the security, stability, and efficiency of our organization's network infrastructure. This role will help secure the organization's network systems, including firewalls, routers, switches, network monitoring tools, and virtual private networks (VPNs), ensuring that they align with best practices and organizational standards.

This position aligns with Cayuse's core values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by fostering technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality in deliverables.

• Assess and implement security protocols to ensure robust and secure connectivity across the organization.
• Administer and maintain network security tools to monitor and protect the organization's infrastructure.
• Utilize network monitoring tools to assess system performance, track uptime, and identify vulnerabilities.
• Diagnose and resolve network performance issues and security breaches quickly and effectively.
• Design and enforce network security policies and procedures.
• Perform regular updates, patches, and upgrades for hardware and software to maintain compliance and reduce cyber risks.
• Maintain accurate records such as system configurations, network topologies, and changes to hardware/software.
• Generate detailed reports on security incidents, performance metrics, and improvement recommendations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience:

• 3 years with evaluating and reviewing existing cybersecurity tools and controls.
• 3 years of experience with designing, preparing, and presenting supporting documentation such as project plans, status reports, briefings, and presentations, and internal/external stakeholder communication materials.
• 3 years of research, interviews, meetings, and workshops to understand the organization's strategic objectives, processes, issues, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• 3 years of international communication with clients' internal or external stakeholders, including business partners and/or external parties, to identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or security gaps.
• 3 years of experience with fulfilling basic project management duties to ensure success of short‑term engagements, including creation of project charters, expectation/communications management, risk management, resource management.
• 3 years of experience performing editing of the client’s documentation to include checks for format, clarity, and overall cohesiveness; manage updates and revisions to technical literature; provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required.

Preferred Experience:

• 5 years of evaluation and review of existing cybersecurity tools and controls.
• 5 years' experience with design, preparation, and presentation of supporting documentation such as project plans, status reports, briefings and presentations, and internal/external stakeholder communication materials.
• 5 years of research, interviews, meetings, and workshops to understand the organization’s strategic objectives, processes, issues, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• 5 years of interaction with client’s internal or external stakeholders to identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or security gaps.
• 5 years of fulfilling project management duties to ensure successful completion of short‑term engagements, including creation of project charters, expectation/communications management, risk management, resource management.
• 5 years of editing on client’s documentation, including checks for format, clarity, and overall cohesiveness; managing updates and revisions to technical literature; providing progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required.

• Exceptional…