IT Security Analyst II

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote’s success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary:

The Security Analyst II is responsible for operations and administration of the organization’s enterprise security solutions and processes.

The ideal candidate for this job will be an experienced security practitioner.

This position will act as an operational security contact to assist with tier 2/3 security incident and event management and internal security compliance.

This is a project based professional role contributing as operational lead for Managed SOC.

Essential functions:

• Secure areas including infrastructure as code, configuration management, identity and access management, network security across multi-cloud environments, event monitoring and reporting.
• Work to continually improve the security posture of client-facing applications developed by ensuring risks are identified and appropriately mitigated.
• Perform periodic security scanning and internal security testing to identify the potential security breach in the working environment.
• Experience with advanced adversary analysis, SIEM analysis, and deep analysis using blue team and red team pen test tools.
• Research, recommend and manage EDR policies for enterprise servers, workstations and cloud resources.
• Assist with internal and external security audits including reviewing processes for policy adherence and verification.
• Work with cross functional teams including application developers, DevOps, network engineers and systems administrators to maintain database of software, hardware and process artifacts.
• Develop and document SOC incident response run books with detailed methods and procedures for SOC.
• Research and assess third-party, tools and services to verify their conformance to security policy.
• Expected to work under own initiative, prioritize own work, and meet agreed timescales
• Generate reports for business managers and systems owners to serve as an input to evaluate the efficacy of the security policies

Knowledge, Skills and abilities:

• Fluency with Windows and Linux operating systems and command line tools
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Knowledge of virtualization concepts including server and network function virtualization
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, etc)
• Strong initiative with the ability to analyze and adopt a strategic view
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work and lead in a team in environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Training and experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience troubleshooting PC’s with Windows based applications.
• Minimum 1 years of experience troubleshooting and remediating security events.
• 1+ years working with Cloud infrastructure required (Azure/GCP/AWS).

Benefits:

It’s an exciting time to join SelectQuote. We became a publicly traded company in 2020 with the first 100% virtual IPO (non-biotech) in American history. We have also been recognized nationally on the 2021 Top Workplaces USA list and by the Kansas City Business Journal as a 2020 Best Places to Work honoree.

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid long term disability, company-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), 401(k) + company match and 100% vesting after 4 years, discretionary profit sharing, employee stock purchase program (espp), paid time off, floating holidays, paid maternity leave, paid parental bonding leave, tuition reimbursement, jury duty pay, and other paid leaves vary based on work location