DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY

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Division of Technology Services (DTS)
1400 West Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85007
www.azdes.gov

Salary: $70,000 - $78,543  

Grade: 24

Closing Date: August 17, 2026

Would you like to be part of an amazing team that helps Arizonans thrive? At the Department of Economic Security (DES) we strengthen individuals, families, and communities for a better quality of life. DES is looking for individuals who are committed to service, community, and teamwork. To learn more about DES please visit des.az.gov; or click on the link here to view ‘Our DES’ video. Come Join the DES Team!

The Department of Economic Security, Division of Technology Services (DTS), is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to join our team as an Information Security Analyst Senior. The Information Security Analyst Senior is responsible for reviewing threat intelligence feeds and alerts and identifies affected devices. Investigates logs and traffic patterns, isolates and corrects systems faults. Generates leadership incidents and threat reports. Proactively solves problems. Info Sec Analyst Senior will maintain their understanding and awareness of Agency, State, and Federal requirements and how they are to be applied to agency systems and data. The role is highly collaborative, involving frequent interaction with various members of the larger IT team and DTS customers.

This position may offer the ability to work remotely within Arizona based upon the department's needs and continual meetings of expected performance measures.

The state of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, commissions, many State employees participate in the State's Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

Essential Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Conducts traffic analysis to identify and characterize threats. Assist in the implementation of new services and improvement of existing security services including installation and monitoring, specifically ensuring security and compliance requirements are met or exceeded and that the service meets sustainability goals.
• Generates leadership reports, metrics and audit quality artifacts of service execution. Identify and remediate deficiencies and proactively solve problems. Implement new software, upgrades, patches and fixes to ensure that security platforms and services are healthy and running as expected.
• Assist with the coordination of security activities with other IT functional teams concerning the implementation of new security services and solutions. Provide security guidance concerning required remediation activities.
• Regularly review the threat landscape for emerging threats to the organization. Make assessments concerning the findings and socialize them within the security team. Determine if alteration is required or recommended to existing security services and solutions to protect against these threats.
• Maintain and update Security Services Catalog where appropriate - inclusive of Tasks, Checklists, Procedures and Metrics.

Knowledge of:
• Incident response and handling methodologies.
• Cyber-security and privacy principles, and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• How traffic flows across the network (e.g.; Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP],
• Network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
• Virtual Private Network (V