Cybersecurity Analyst

Are you interested in progressing your career in life sciences? Are you ready to challenge yourself and join a global leader in healthcare? Are you a Cybersecurity Analyst looking for a new opportunity in Ireland? This could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Job Description

Our client are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Analyst who will be responsible for designing and implementing solutions that protect the company's systems, data and infrastructure. You will be collaborating with business units, development teams and third-party vendors to embed security into new technologies and projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, or recommending secure technical solutions, including policy, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are operationally viable and efficient
• Performing responsibilities to ensure that the appropriate application of security products and technologies are in place to protect the organization's systems and information and enable achievement of the organization's objectives
• Contributing to the design of cybersecurity toolsets to enable more automated discovery, remediation, and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities, as a means of improving the security posture
• Performing analysis of emerging technologies and designing and building architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies
• Contribute to the development of a risk-based cyber security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices
• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tool sets
• Support the advancement of the Company's cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities
• Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats
• Guide business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business
• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company against cyber threats, including:
  • Firewalls
  • Intrusion detection and prevention systems
  • Data loss prevention solutions
  • Endpoint protections
  • Log aggregation technology
  • Other leading-edge security technologies
• Participate in cross-team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects
• Contribute subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure the timely, on-budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness
• Perform assessment of cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment
• Support management in the development of strategies, policy, and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

Key Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in relevant role
• Expertise in:
  • Valuing and implementing industry standards such as:
    • ISO 27001/2
    • SOC 2
    • HITRUST
    • FedRAMP Information Security standard
    • ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard
    • Implementation and operational use of GRC tool sets (Governance Risk and Compliance)
• Possess CISSP certification (or similar)
• Knowledge of national and international regulatory compliance and frameworks such as:
  • ISO
  • SOX
  • BASEL II
  • EU DPD
  • HIPAA
  • PCI DSS
    

Benefits

• Competitive and attractive employee compensation package
• Pension contributions
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays

Location: Connaught, Leinster | Ireland

Key Responsibilities

Designing, developing, or recommending secure technical solutions, including policy, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are operationally viable and efficient
Performing responsibilities to ensure that the appropriate application of security products and technologies are in place to protect the organization's systems and information and enable achievement of the organization's objectives
Contributing to the design of cybersecurity toolsets to enable more automated discovery, remediation, and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities, as a means of improving the security posture
Performing analysis of emerging technologies and designing and building architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies
Contribute to the development of a risk-based cyber security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices
Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tool sets
Support the advancement of the Company's cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities
Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats
Guide business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business
Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company against cyber threats, including:
Firewalls
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Data loss prevention solutions
Endpoint protections
Log aggregation technology
Other leading-edge security technologies
Participate in cross-team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects
Contribute subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure the timely, on-budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness
Perform assessment of cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment
Support management in the development of strategies, policy, and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

Key Requirements
Minimum of 4 years' experience in relevant role
Expertise in:
Valuing and implementing industry standards such as:
ISO 27001/2
SOC 2
HITRUST
FedRAMP Information Security standard
ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard
Implementation and operational use of GRC tool sets (Governance Risk and Compliance)
Possess CISSP certification (or similar)
Knowledge of national and international regulatory compliance and frameworks such as:
ISO
SOX
BASEL II
EU DPD
HIPAA
PCI DSS