"Principal Cybersecurity Analyst"

Job Details

Job ID: 294689
Location: Kennesaw, Georgia
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

Location

(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.
Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Job Summary

Leads incident response and strengthen our security posture across cloud and on-prem environments. Provides technical leadership in investigations and partners with teams to implement effective security controls, offering oversight and guidance in support of the security operations department and the handling of security events. Possess deep technical expertise, mentoring ability, and a strong understanding of modern threat landscapes.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Delivers strategic oversight and operational leadership to the security operations department, aligning capabilities with organizational security goals
2. Leads incident response and serve as escalation point for complex security events
3. Mentors and contributes to team development
4. Enhances security posture through proactive threat detection and mitigation
5. Collaborates with teams to implement security controls and best practices
6. Provides technical expertise in investigations and threat analysis
7. Supports cloud (Azure, AWS, etc.) and on-premises security initiatives
8. Applies defense-in-depth principles and assess application security risks (OWASP Top 10)
9. Uses penetration testing tools and evaluates security controls based on cybersecurity principles

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in related field

Required Experience
Six (6) years Information Technology Security or other Information Technology related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Professional certification, such as CISSP, CISA, etc.
Knowledge of EDR platforms (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, or similar tool)

Preferred Educational Qualifications
An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Cybersecurity, Information Security and Assurance, or related field

Preferred Experience
Experience with SIEM tools (Splunk, Elastic, Microsoft Sentinel, or similar tool)
Experience with vulnerability management tools (Rapid7, Tenable, Microsoft Defender, or similar tool)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

ABILITIES
Security control implementation and technical investigation
Mentoring and cross-functional collaboration
Lead incident response and threat analysis
Design scalable security solutions
Communicate technical findings effectively
Strengthen security posture across hybrid environments
Able to handle multiple tasks or projects at one time meeting assigned deadlines
Able to anticipate security threats and proactively develop appropriate solutions
Able to function with autonomy, make sound and timely decisions, and use good judgement to determine which decisions should be escalated

KNOWLEDGE
Incident response, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management
Security frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001)
Application security risks (OWASP Top 10) and penetration testing tools
Network traffic analysis and log review
Knowledge of EDR platforms (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, or similar tool)

SKILLS
Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, independent judgment, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management, and presentation skills
Proficient with computer applications and programs associated with the position (i.e., Microsoft Office suite)
Strong attention to detail and follow up skills
Strong customer service skills and phone and e-mail etiquette