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Cyber Security Associate

Job Description:

If you are looking for on-the-job training, enjoy learning new things and are excited about a hands-on experience in an innovative workplace this is an opportunity for you.

This is a full-time salaried position providing a structured, “earn and learn” apprenticeship experience including formal learning, on-the-job training, and on-going coaching to help build skills with the opportunity to advance into a career with a professional services company at the end of the 12-months or stay on with PeopleShores.

• Seeking candidates without a US 4-year college degree who are curious, creative, detail oriented and collaborative. This position requires you to be in person.

What type of work might be in a typical day?

· Learn cyber security skills to make systems resilient against cyber risks.

· Investigating attacks against customer networks.

· Writing, reviewing, and conveying findings of investigations around security events, threat actors, or new vulnerabilities.

· Performing troubleshooting on a range of general technical IT and security issues related to networking or security infrastructure.

· Monitor account activities to maintain client data protection, threats, detections, response actions and information security standards.

· Serve account teams and business groups through proactive monitoring, managing, and reporting on execution of project deliverables.

· Work with project team members to help clients proactively identify and mitigate cyber threats.

· Promote data-driven decisions and design solutions to meet business needs.

What will you bring to the role?

· Leverage your quest for knowledge to learn about every stage of security services – including new system rollouts, enhancements, security monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of applications.

· Use your creativity to design and problem-solving skills to identify risks, develop reports while developing your ability to analyze data.

· Engage your curiosity to change the way people experience interactions with technology.

· Display your collaborative spirit while connecting with team members to help solve complex business needs.

· Rely on your attention to detail while analyzing data and reviewing logs or software performance to ensure data integrity and availability are not impacted.

Qualifications:

· High School Diploma or equivalent

· Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States

(Preferred) Qualifications:

· Completed a Technical bootcamp or possess a technical certification (CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, Cisco CCNA, SANS GIAC, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

· Training in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, SQL, Python, etc.)

· Experience with Microsoft Office suite of products

· Typically, less than 6 months of relevant technical work experience

MUST SUBMIT RESUME TO: dc-careers@peopleshores.com

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