<p><strong>Security Analyst</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Company Overview</strong> </p><p>A manufacturing organization is seeking a Security Analyst to help protect its technology environment and strengthen cybersecurity operations. This role offers broad exposure to security monitoring, incident response, risk reduction, and security improvement initiatives.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Role Summary</strong> </p><p>The Security Analyst will monitor and respond to security threats while helping maintain and improve enterprise security controls. The ideal candidate is hands-on, analytical, and comfortable working across security operations, vulnerability management, and incident response.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Monitor and investigate security alerts and suspicious activity.</li><li>Support incident response, investigation, and remediation efforts.</li><li>Maintain and improve security monitoring and protection technologies.</li><li>Identify vulnerabilities and coordinate remediation activities.</li><li>Support data protection, identity, endpoint, and cloud security initiatives.</li><li>Analyze security trends and recommend improvements to controls and processes.</li><li>Collaborate with technology teams on security and risk-reduction initiatives.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Details</strong></p><ul><li>Work model: Primarily remote</li><li>Occasional travel may be required</li><li>Full-time position</li></ul>
We are looking for an experienced Security Analyst III to join a long-term contract opportunity in Providence, Rhode Island. This role focuses on monitoring cyber threats, investigating security events, and strengthening enterprise network defenses through risk-based analysis and operational support. The position also plays a key part in firewall security administration, helping ensure access controls, policy decisions, and remediation activities align with cybersecurity standards and business needs. Shift coverage is required for this role.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Monitor security platforms and related data sources to identify suspicious activity, unauthorized access attempts, intrusion indicators, and compliance-related concerns across the network environment.<br>• Investigate security alerts and incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and document findings to help reduce repeat issues and improve response effectiveness.<br>• Track and report network and cybersecurity events, maintaining accurate records of incident status, impact, and remediation progress.<br>• Troubleshoot security and network issues, recommend corrective actions, and support timely recovery of secure services while minimizing operational disruption.<br>• Assist with targeted system or network configuration updates that enhance protection measures and support regulatory or policy-driven security requirements.<br>• Evaluate firewall requests and existing rule sets to identify excessive access, configuration weaknesses, policy conflicts, and opportunities to reduce risk.<br>• Recommend and support firewall modifications, policy cleanup efforts, and recertification activities to improve compliance, strengthen least-privilege access, and address audit findings.<br>• Review firewall configurations against security baselines and hardening expectations, and use policy analysis tools to assess rule effectiveness and exposure.<br>• Partner with infrastructure and operational technology teams to help design, test, and implement firewall changes with limited business impact.<br>• Contribute to incident response activities and support ongoing security operations performed during scheduled shift coverage.