IT Security Analyst - Hybrid Chicago Loop Office

The IT Security Analyst supports, reviews, and provides recommendations for improving security controls in systems that monitor and maintain NORC infrastructure and applications. The IT Security Analyst will also manage the Information Security queue for security services management. The analyst also is a primary responder for cyber and security events and will assist and support the team throughout the event.

This position will have a hybrid work schedule of one to two days a week in our Chicago Loop office.

NORC's Information Technology program provides technology services to our staff and clients. Given the critical role technology plays in our day-to-day lives, we are committed to providing professional, high-quality solutions in order to further our collective goal of advancing social science research.​

• Reviews security systems for anomalous behavior or activity
• Conduct security investigations and create tickets according, where needed
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of the current cyber threat landscape and threats
• Ensure security events are handled when detected according to standard procedures
• Contribute to increasing the security maturity of security operations and overall IT Security
• Understand and maintain current knowledge of tools, procedures and services within IT Security.

• Preferred but not required:
  Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Business Administration, BBA, or other comparable degree
• At least 5 years’ experience in Information Technology or Cyber Security
• Ability to monitor and review security and IT systems
• General understanding of IT security, infrastructure, operating systems, database and application operations
• Understands vulnerability management, network architecture, and risk management.
• Strong communication and people skills for interaction with users and other team members
• Ability to transfer knowledge for less technical management.

Qualified applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. We regret that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. 

The pay range for this position is $77,000 – $98,000.

Hybrid work model in the heart of Chicago.

This position is classified as regular. Regular staff are eligible for NORC’s comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generously subsidized health insurance, effective on the first day of employment

• Dental and vision insurance

• A defined contribution retirement program, along with a separate voluntary 403(b) retirement program

• Group life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Benefits that promote work/life balance, including generous paid time off, holidays; paid parental leave, bereavement leave, tuition assistance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

NORC’s Approach to Equity and Transparency

Pay and benefits transparency helps to reduce wage gaps. As part of our commitment to pay equity and salary transparency, NORC includes a salary range for each job opening along with information about eligible benefit offerings. At NORC, we take a comprehensive approach to setting salary ranges and reviewing raises and promotions, which is overseen by a formal Salary Review Committee (SRC).

NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, our teams have conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with us to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge.

For over 80 years, NORC has evolved in many ways, moving the needle with research methods, technical applications and groundbreaking research findings. But our tradition of excellence, passion for innovation, and commitment to collegiality have remained constant components of who we are as a brand, and who each of us is as a member of the NORC team. With world-class benefits, a business casual environment, and an emphasis on continuous learning, NORC is a place where people join for the stellar research and analysis work for which we’re known, and stay for the relationships they form with their colleagues who take pride in the impact their work is making on a global scale.

NORC is an equal opportunity employer. NORC evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, and other legally protected characteristics.

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