Sr IT Security Analyst

Overview

Parts Authority, founded in 1973, is a leading national distributor of automotive replacement parts, tools/equipment and transmissions. Headquartered in Long Island, New York, Parts Authority is rapidly expanding, and today has more than 300 locations servicing customers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC and Wisconsin.

 

Parts Authority has grown through both organic initiatives and acquisitions. Over the past several years Parts Authority has acquired over a dozen companies as part of its expansion strategy. Parts Authority’s catalog of over 3 million parts covering more than 125 million applications, ensures our customer partners receive the parts they want, when they want them.

 

Parts Authority carries the best brands in the business for domestic and import vehicles. AC Delco, Motorcraft, Denso, Bosch, KYB, Monroe, Gates, Dorman and Exide are just a few of the more than 400 suppliers from around the world, that Parts Authority partners with to bring our customer partners the best parts.

 

Each and every team member plays a vital role in our success. We are rapidly expanding and looking for a professional, self-motivated individual to fill the role of Sr IT Security Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Strong background in network engineering or administration.
• Experience with firewalls, routers, and switches.
• Familiarity with network security best practices, including VPNs, VLANs, and troubleshooting network issues.
• Ability to analyze network traffic and identify potential security risks.
• Experience with firewall management and basic incident response is a plus.
• Developing project timelines for ongoing system upgrades
• Ensuring all personnel have access to the IT system limited by need and role
• Establishing disaster recovery procedures and conducting breach of security drills
• Promptly responding to all security incidents and providing thorough post-event analyses
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify gaps in IT security and make recommendations that ultimately remediate risk
• Configuring and maintaining vulnerability and compliance scanning tools - including patch management to determine what systems to scan - including schedule.
• Perform research and analysis of end point security threats & alerts; Perform detailed forensic analysis of assets, including logs, malware samples, file systems
• Perform research and analysis of email security threats & alerts and Field employee reports of phishing and suspicious activity on a daily basis
• Perform research and analysis of URL/Content Filtering threats & alerts
• Good understanding of SIEMs and similar technologies to audit for unauthorized access attempts or other info-sec violations
• Monitor team ticketing system to ensure proper steps are taken for all identified vulnerabilities & security alerts
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify gaps in IT security and make recommendations that ultimately remediate risk
• Communicate effectively with other department managers, business stakeholders, technology specialists and vendors.
• Expectation of off-hours support, responsiveness and availability in response to critical security related incidents, material developments which could create risk to the company
• Recommend approaches for addressing vulnerabilities
• Update’s configurations and solutions based on IT security requirements for prevention and detection tools
• Maintains awareness and knowledge of current events within the security community
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Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Active Directory/ GPO
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Qualys Vulnerability Scanner & Patch Management
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in SIEM Administration & Monitoring
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Endpoint Detection & Response
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Content & URL filtering
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Email Security

 

Some of the benefits of being a part of our growing Parts Authority family:

• Medical Coverage
• Pharmacy Coverage
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Basic Life and AD&D
• Short Term Disability Coverage
• Voluntary Short Term Disability Coverage
• Voluntary Long Term Disability Coverage
• Flexible Spending Account
• Commuter Expense Reimbursement Account
• Health Savings Account
• Health Reimbursement Account
• Accident Insura