Staff IT Security Analyst-Incident Response at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, UT

Job description

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: Grade: Technical 411 Pay Range: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00 Job Description This is a lead-level, highly technical security role for someone who thrives at the center of complex cyber incidents. You will help lead incident response, threat detection, investigation, and remediation while also shaping the tools, automation, and security capabilities that strengthen WGU’s defenses. You will serve as a hands-on technical leader and escalation point for the IT Security team, working alongside security, infrastructure, engineering, and business partners. The right person brings deep technical expertise, strong investigative instincts, and the ability to turn emerging threats and real-world incidents into better detections, faster response, and stronger controls. What You'll Do Lead complex incident response and investigation efforts, including technical analysis, evidence and data collection, forensic support, containment, remediation, and identification of opportunities to strengthen defenses. Lead security content and detection use-case development aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, researching attacks, identifying Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), analyzing large data sets, and developing detection logic for malicious, suspicious, and abnormal activity. Architect and build cloud threat analytics using log correlation, AI, and machine learning capabilities, while developing continuous security and compliance checks across AWS and other cloud platforms. Design and implement SOAR and security automation that improves security configuration management, compliance enforcement, investigation workflows, and remediation of malicious activity. Build and automate security capabilities across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, data security, DLP, encryption, and security tooling. Identify gaps in the security model and lead technical solutions from requirements and architecture through implementation, integration, and ongoing operation, including integrations with ServiceNow. Act as a technical lead and mentor for other analysts, researching emerging threats and techniques, developing team capabilities, and providing hands-on guidance during demanding security situations. What You'll Bring Bachelor's Degree in IT Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field 7 years of Information Security experience, including understanding of all security domains Hands-on experience implementing MITRE ATT&CK Framework Working experience creating, designing, and implementing SIEM content security rules to detect malicious, suspicious, and/or abnormal events Hands-on experience maintaining cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, CDK, etc.) Expert scripting