Junior Security Analyst
Who We Are
At SecureLink, we take our job seriously, but ourselves, not so much. We aren't afraid of a challenge and understand the individual and team effort required to accomplish something great! SecureLink's world headquarters in West Austin is called the Hill Country Spaceship - a great facility we believe you would be proud to call your workplace.
Founded in 2003, SecureLink doesn't just offer products – we provide partnerships. We have the knowledge, existing relationships, and expertise to make the maximum impact on our customers' business. This, and our "failure is not an option" mindset, is what has led to us solidifying our place as the leaders in managing secure third-party remote access and remote support for both highly regulated enterprise organizations and technology vendors.
After 14 years in business, we announced a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners, the leading technology investment firm focusing exclusively on software, data, and technology-enabled companies. Since then, we have nearly tripled our revenue, earning a place on the Inc. 5000 list of the U.S.'s fastest-growing privately-owned companies three years in a row. During that same period, we've proudly maintained our strong culture, recently being recognized with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award. In 2020, we announced an added partnership from Cove Hill which will position us to accelerate our growth and further advance product innovation.
This position is expected to be filled in the Austin area even though our team is fully distributed for the time being. We are continuously evaluating our return to the office with the safety of our employees and their families at top of mind.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Junior Security Analyst to help keep our tech stack safe from foreign, and domestic, malice and turmoil as we continue to grow.
This team considers themselves a group of talented IT nerds working to keep SecureLink's heterogeneous IT infrastructure humming! This role would be perfect for a Linux systems administrator or engineer on a passionate and unwavering pursuit to catapult into the informational security operations space.
You will become an integral part of planning, creating, deploying, maintaining and monitoring SecureLink's production corporate security stack via various methods and leading proprietary, and open source, technologies with an emphasis on automation and orchestration. This role will include monitoring, responding to, and documenting security-related events and alerts via endpoint protection and SIEM platforms, as well as performing automated and manual penetration testing of web applications, operating systems and other services, communicating and documenting findings, and vulnerability validation and remediation. You will also work closely with systems engineers and compliance teams, and in some cases developers and DevOps, to ensure that operational/informational alignments are understood and security measures are deployed effectively and efficiently with a focus on current industry best practices and resilience. Additionally, you'll take part in SecureLink obtaining their SOC 2 Type 2 certification.
What You'll Need
- A knack for learning new methods and technologies, and applying them
- Familiarity with language surrounding information security topics, including vulnerability remediation and mitigation
- Comfort in working autonomously, while prioritizing integrity, humor, and patience
- Experience reviewing and communicating about security scan and penetration testing reports
- Strong understanding of the importance of encryption and how it's implemented on various protocols
- Experience working in a SOC
- Strong firewalling and network knowledge
- Experience with Burpsuite, OWASP, or other proxies and fuzzing utilities
- Experience monitoring SIEM and/or endpoint protection platforms
- Proficiency in Bash and/or Python scripting
Bonus Points For
- Web application security knowledge
- Experience with an IPS or HIDS
- Experience reviewing or writing WAF and/or suricata rules
- Experience with Openstack and/or Ceph
- Experience with Ansible Tower or AWX
Why Choose Us
SecureLink doesn't just Have Fun Creating Value Over the Long Run (HFCV/LR) for our customers and shareholders, we Have Fun Creating Value in the lives and careers of our employees. Benefits and perks include:
- Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance - SecureLink foots the whole bill for employees and subsidizes dependent coverage at 75%
- Wellness: SecureLink kicks cash into your HSA, $2,500 for those with individual coverage and $5,000 for those with family coverage. Employees are provided with a standing desk, healthy snacks, and have free access to an onsite gym
- Retirement: SecureLink contributes 3% of your annual base salary to a 401k
- Time off: Employees receive unlimited PTO, including time to volunteer. Additionally, we offer 10 paid company holidays
- Perks: Our onsite kitchen provides employees with healthy options for breakfast & lunch every day. We kick back $100 per month towards cell phone reimbursement
- Workspace: Casual dress code for our employees, and you will see many people around wearing jeans, and yes – even t-shirts and the occasional pair of flip-flops
What Else?
Happy and successful SecureLink employees embrace the company's mission to have fun creating value over the long run. Great employees have three attributes that make them "slinky". These are 1) excellence at their position, 2) eagerness to grow and improve and 3) a true sense of responsibility to meaningfully contribute to the company, customers, and culture.
If you are just looking for another job, this is not the place for you. We like to laugh and be around happy, smart, interesting, self-motivated and "slinky" people. Slackers, grumps, and pessimists need not apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
