INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST-JUNIOR - 04292025- 67377

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, BUSINESS SOLUTIONS DELIVERY DIVISION, DAVIDSON COUNTY

This position is designed as Hybrid.

This position requires CJIS fingerprint check. This position also requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history to be considered for this position.

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Identify security breaches.
2. Identifies and analyzes areas of potential risk to assets, resources or success of organization.

Analyzing Data or Information:

1. Utilize forensic techniques to analyze security events.
2. Analyze security operations to identify risk or opportunities for improvement.

Interacting With Computers:

1. Encrypt data transmission to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and keep out tainted digital transfers.
2. Advises, implements and maintains security systems.
3. Analyzes and investigates intruder detection or other security systems.
4. Encrypt data at rest to conceal confidential information.

Thinking Creatively:

1. Mitigate situations that might lead to security breaches.
2. Recommend ways to conduct assessments to reduce risk.
3. Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, professional reputations, customer bases or industry segments.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:

1. Monitors systems to ensure current updates and patch levels are applied.
2. Monitors use of data files and regulate access to safeguard information in computer resources.

Developing Objectives and Strategies:

1. Develops or review specifications for design or construction or implementation of security in systems.
2. Plans and contribute to development of risk management systems.

Training and Teaching Others:

1. Evaluates and modify training materials to address security weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
2. Trains users and promote security awareness to ensure systems security and to improve server and network efficiency.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems:

1. Determine escalation for security events.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

1. Recommend improvements in security systems or procedures.

Processing Information:

1. Conduct security audits to identify potential problems related to physical security, staff safety, or asset protection and to satisfy state and federal regulations.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:

1. Performs risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.
2. Evaluate security operations to identify risk or opportunities for improvement.
3. Reviews violations of computer security procedures and discuss procedures with violators to ensure violations are not repeated.
4. Confer with users to discuss issues such as computers data access needs security violations, and programming changes.
5. Conduct physical examinations of property to ensure compliance with security, policies and regulations.

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Prepares, maintains, or updates security procedures, security system drawings, or related documentation.
2. Documents and ensure communication of key risk.
3. Maintain input or data quality of systems.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:

1. Establishes and maintains contact with peers.

Selling or Influencing Others:

1. Convey the importance of security recommendations, procedures, policies and level of risk to protect state resources.

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People:

1. Evaluate the knowledge and responsiveness of contractors to accomplish organizational outcomes.

Getting Information:

1. Gather risk-related data from internal or external resources.
2. Utilizes helpdesk automated systems.
3. Utilize communication channels such as, email and messaging.

Communicating with Persons outside Organization:

1. Notify customers of potential security threats.
2. Notify customers of security changes that may affect their access.

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:

1. Produce reports or presentations that outline findings, explain risk positions, or recommend changes.

Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material:

1. Inspects access control.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Process Management
2. Decision Quality
3. Total Work Systems
4. Technical Learning
5. Learning on the Fly
6. Informing
7. Standing Alone
8. Business Acumen
9. Timely Decision Making
10. Customer Focus
11. Dealing with Ambiguity
12. Strategic Agility

Knowledge:

1. Clerical
2. Communication and Media
3. Basic Knowledge of Computers and Electronics
4. Customer and Personal Services
5. Education and Training
6. Basic Knowledge of Engineering and Technology Systems
7. Law and Government
8. Mathematics
9. Basis Knowledge of Public Safety and Security
10. Basic Knowledge of Defense in Depth
11. Computer Operating Systems
12. Basic Knowledge of Security Best Practices
13. Regulatory and Statutory Requirements
14. Telecommunications

Skills:

1. Equipment Maintenance
2. Installation of Security Equipment or Software
3. Operation and Control
4. Operation Monitoring
5. Basic Operations Analysis
6. Programming
7. Quality Control Analysis
8. Basic Troubleshooting
9. Basic System Analysis
10. Time Management
11. Active Learning
12. Active Listening
13. Critical Thinking
14. Learning Strategies
15. Mathematics
16. Monitoring
17. Reading Comprehension
18. Science
19. Speaking
20. Writing
21. Basic Coordination
22. Instruction
23. Negotiation
24. Persuasion
25. Basic Service Orientation
26. Basic Social Perceptiveness

Abilities:

1. Category Flexibility
2. Deductive Reasoning
3. Flexibility of Closure
4. Fluency of Ideas
5. Inductive Reasoning
6. Information Ordering
7. Mathematical Reasoning
8. Memorization
9. Number Facility
10. Oral Expression
11. Originality
12. Perceptual Speed
13. Problem Sensitivity
14. Selective Attention
15. Speed of Closure
16. Time Sharing
17. Visualization
18. Written Comprehension
19. Written Expression
20. Stress Tolerance

Tools & Equipment

1. Computer