Join the team that connects California to the world — advancing education and research statewide by providing the world-class computing network essential for innovation, collaboration, and economic growth. Our organization operates the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-capacity computer network with more than 8,000 miles of optical fiber. The network serves over 20 million users across California, including the vast majority of K-20 students together with educators, researchers, and individuals at other vital public-serving institutions.
CENIC’s Senior Cybersecurity Analyst actively works as a resource and may lead multiple complex projects to initiate and drive security activities to ensure CENIC networks, systems, and data are protected and available to support the organization’s mission to serve the California educational community.
This is currently a remote position and will convert to a hybrid position in the near future. The position requires one to be ‘on call’ outside of regular business hours on a regular and recurring basis.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a core member of the CENIC Information Security Office (ISO), performing varying security duties, including threat awareness, proactive network traffic analysis, incident response, forensic analysis, and resolution of security incidents. The analyst will collaborate with members of the CENIC Security Advisory Committee, peer staff throughout the organization, and external solution partners to establish and enhance security tools, resources, and processes. This includes data protection, incident response, vulnerability management, network security monitoring, malware defense, and security awareness training.
- Serve as a consultant on the long-range vision for security design for CENIC security services. Promote a strong security culture throughout CENIC’s internal network, consulting with CENIC management and staff. Provides cybersecurity expertise to internal staff and may serve as an official representative of CENIC in technical forums, panel discussions, and conference presentations.
- Partners with ISO and extended CENIC teams on security solutions and implementations. Integrate knowledge of network protocols, services, threats, vulnerabilities, mitigation strategies, hardware capabilities, and other information to build a secure environment that reduces and mitigates risk while allowing CENIC’s open science mission to succeed. Collaborate with the CENIC Security Advisory Committee, CENIC segment leaders, and other security experts around the state to develop plans, if appropriate, for a Security Operations Center.
- Leads ISO project initiatives while partnering with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful completion.
Key Success Factors: A strong technical background with operational project management skills
- Strong understanding of complex TCP/IP networks
- Advanced knowledge of IP-based networking; scripting using regular expressions, data and text manipulation tools such as awk and sed; layer 2, wireless, switching and routing protocols
- Familiarity with securing virtualized environments
- Basic statistics and analytics and experience with modern analytic and visualization packages
- Knowledge of public-key and private-key encryption techniques, including DES, RSA, and PGP/GPG
- Strong project management skills and the ability to lead projects
- Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment
Required Qualifications
- BA/BS in computer science or related field or equivalent experience
- Certifications and/or equivalent training in a technical security specialty (e.g., GIAC, CISSP)
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, or network security engineering the design, deployment, and implementation of security solutions. This includes continuous monitoring and making improvements to those solutions, working with an information security and security operations team
- Minimum of 4 years of experience running and supporting security information and event management (SIEM) services
- Minimum of 4 years of experience running and supporting vulnerability management services
- Operational experience, including project management
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information assurance, or a related field
- Experience implementing industry security standards, such as ISO 27001, NIST SP800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls
- Experience configuring and supporting security orchestration and automated response (SOAR) services
- Experience programming in C, C++, Python, Ruby, or other popular languages
- 4 years of experience maintaining and administering production Unix/Linux operating systems, including RedHat/CentOS and FreeBSD variants
- Familiarity and experience working with Research and Education networks in the US or abroad
Why work at CENIC?
- Company Culture: Small teams and a collaborative environment provide the opportunity to make a large impact in a small organization.
- Community Engagement: We work with research and education institutions in the largest state economy in the United States. The work you do has meaning.
- Health Benefits: We have generous medical benefits as well as dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid Time Off: We offer liberal vacation, holiday, and sick leave.
- Investment in Your Future: CENIC contributes to your 403(b) even if you don’t. We also offer matching contributions on top of that.
CENIC is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace; therefore, all existing and potential employees are required to be vaccinated or provide a valid exemption to be a CENIC team member.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Location
CENIC has two California offices, the home office in La Mirada and a smaller office in Berkeley. The Information Security Office works out of the La Mirada office. Please note due to COVID-19 this position is temporarily remote and not expected to be back in the office until conditions in the state of California improve.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CENIC is proud of the diversity of our staff and of those we serve and will not deny employment on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic identification, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or disability; neither will CENIC discriminate against any employees on the basis of the above.