Principal Security Operations Analyst

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Meredith Operations Corporation has an opening for a Principal Security Operations Analyst in Des Moines IA.

The position duties are as follows: Serves as a critical member of the security team responsible for safeguarding the organizations digital assets. Leverage advanced technical expertise and experience as a subject matter expert for security operations and work with other subject matter experts not only within security but across product development infrastructure architecture and business teams to ensure the abilities to efficiently and effectively monitor detect analyze and respond to security threats. Play a key role in supporting and implementing security policies procedures and technologies to improve the organizations overall security posture. Work closely with the manager and other team members to ensure the confidentiality integrity and availability of the organizations information assets. Responsible for helping set and support the technical direction of security leading in multiple complex technical projects and partnering with other groups within the organization to deliver tools and services that align with our security roadmaps. Daily duties include: Lead security event monitoring analysis and triage activities. Design and implement security measures to enhance the security posture and capabilities for preventing detecting and responding to security risks. Perform in-depth investigations respond to security incident activities and coordinate with internal and external parties and services. Conduct forensic investigations to identify the root cause of security incidents and oversee the remediation measures. Develop and refine incident response plans to minimize the impact of security in on-call rotation for incident response. Monitor security logs and alerts for signs of suspicious activity. Create manage and solve tickets ensuring completion within departmental SLAs. Conduct assessments and coordinate penetration tests to identify and mitigate security risks. Analyze security trends and threat intelligence to proactively identify and address emerging threats. Develop and maintain security automation scripts and playbooks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations. Design develop and maintain security monitoring dashboards alerts and reports. Evaluate recommend and implement security tooling and technical controls for detection prevention and response for various threats. Implement and oversee the security operations tooling (e.g. SIEM IDS/IPS EDR etc.) to monitor and analyze security events. Proactively identify and analyze emerging threats and vulnerabilities. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other security analysts. Work closely with IT engineering operations and other stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration. Communicate security risks and recommendations to management and stakeholders. Assist in the development and delivery of security awareness training programs. Collaborate with other teams to ensure security is integrated into all aspects of the organization. Develop and maintain security documentation and procedures. Develop and implement security policies procedures and standards. Conduct security awareness training for employees.

The position requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security Applied Information Technology a related field or foreign equivalent plus 5 years of experience in any occupation where cybersecurity experience with a focus on security operations and incident response was gained. Experience must include: 3 years of experience with security principles vulnerabilities threats and cloud security (AWS GCP or Azure); 4 years of experience with Security Operations; 4 years of experience with security tools including SIEM IDS/IPS and EDR; 4 years of experience with incident response and forensic investigations; 3 years of experience with OS (Linux Windows Mac) Security and Compliance; 3 years of experience with G-Suite GWS Administration MITRE ATT&CKNIST CSF SOX and PCI-DSS; 2 years of experience with scripting using Python Powershell and Bash; and 2 years of experience with automation of incident investigation and response (SOAR).

This role offers remote work flexibility; however employees residing within commutable distance of our New York Des Moines Birmingham Los Angeles Chicago or Seattle offices are expected to work onsite 3 times per week.

Offered Wage: $131206

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .

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