Associate Information Security Analyst

The Red Hat Information Assurance team is seeking an Associate Information Security Analyst to join us in Cork, Ireland. In this role, you will join the smart, skilled, and dedicated people that make up Red Hat's Global Information Risk, Privacy and Security team. This role provides a unique opportunity for you to draw on and develop your corporate information security and operations knowledge to meet the challenges of securing Red Hat, the open source way. 

You'll maintain a current knowledge of the information security industry to help you evaluate, recommend, and implement security controls to prevent and detect information security incidents. Excellent communication skills are a must as you will consult with a range of customers and stakeholders. You will advise them on projects, conduct risk assessments and collaborate to deliver corporate information security enhancements, thereby contributing to Red Hat's overall success. 

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Work to understand and improve Red Hat's information security posture.

• Support information security initiatives from creation to delivery.

• Implement automated detection and alerting for potential security incidents.

• Perform information security assessments.

• Provide security consulting, awareness and outreach to all areas of the business.

• Stay current with information security developments (such as vulnerabilities, threat activity, attacker techniques and countermeasures) and apply these in an enterprise context.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 0-2 years experience or education in a technical or operational role/program with an information security focus.

• Exhibits characteristics of a trustworthy person. 

• Ability to work effectively engage with a global team using various communication methods.

• Excellent customer service and communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey information effectively and professionally to a wide variety of audiences.

• A methodical, data-driven approach to security analysis and the ability to think laterally and creatively in order to implement pragmatic security improvements and detect/respond to incidents.

• The ability to work with open source technologies to solve complex and challenging problems.

• Information security tertiary education or industry certifications, to include: Security+, CISA, SSCP would be highly regarded.

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