Security Analyst - Costco Travel

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Security Analysts support the values and business goals as they relate to legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations; protect privacy; and maintain a secure technology environment. Security Analysts develop and execute security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal/external attacks, infiltration of company data, and compromising of systems and accounts. Security Analysts research attempted/successful efforts to compromise systems security; design countermeasures; implement and maintain physical, technical, and administrative security controls; and provide information to management regarding the negative impact to the business.
 

The Security Analyst has broad responsibilities for supporting the overarching values and business goals of Costco Travel as they relate to meeting legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations; protecting member privacy; and maintaining a secure technology environment. The Security Analyst provides consultative services, works with Vendors for product consideration and recommendation, performs monitoring and auditing of information system activities, creates and maintains documentation related to policies, standards and procedures, evaluates, and recommends security controls and performs security risk assessments.
 

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Provides security and technical expertise to support the development of security objects to satisfy business requirements.

● Analyzes and administers security policies to control physical and virtual system access.

● Identifies and investigates security issues and develops security solutions that address compliance requirements that can/do impact security.

● Identifies, develops, and implements mechanisms to detect security incidents in order to enhance compliance and support of the security standards and procedures.

● Assesses business role requirements, reviews authorization roles, and supports authorizations.

● Demonstrates a comprehensive skill set with testing authorizations for multiple environments and coordinates testing with business/technical users.

● Validates system configurations to ensure the safety of information systems assets and protects information systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.

● Implements best practice when applying knowledge of information systems security standards/practices (e.g.access control and system hardening, system audit and log file monitoring, security policies, and incident handling).
 

● Designs and coordinates activities/engagements with other departments (loss prevention, legal, networking, etc.).
 

● Develops and executes security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal/external data infiltrations.
 

● Determines strategy and protocol for network behavior, analysis techniques, and tool implementation.
 

● Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options; and implements solutions that support the business.
 

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