Bilingual (Japanese & English) Cybersecurity Analyst - Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)

Position: End User Support Analyst
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite)
Language Requirement: Japanese and English (Both language proficiency and cultural fluency are strongly required)

Job Profile

Major Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of artifacts to determine methods of intrusion and best course of resolution while driving security improvement
• Strong Incident Response knowledge and experience
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of macOS, Linux, Windows operating systems and cloud environments
• Experience with security data collection, analysis, and correlation
• Strong analytical, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities
• Security event monitoring, investigation, and overall incident response process
• Investigate potential cybersecurity events across multiple environments using various tools and techniques
• Develop information security policies, standards, and procedures
• Manage time effectively while balancing multiple activities and mentoring junior analysts as needed
• Understanding of offensive security and common attack methods
• Ability to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts related to a single security event
• Experience in both product security and information security including:
  • Organizational structure and administration practices
  • System development and maintenance procedures
  • System software and hardware security controls
  • Access controls
  • Computer operations
  • Physical and environmental controls
  • Backup and recovery procedures
• Detailed knowledge of security and regulatory frameworks (CRI, ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, STAR, etc.)
• Support compliance inquiries from IT risk management and internal/external auditors
• Create reports analyzing trends and activities inside and outside the organization
• Develop security detections, playbooks, and automation aligned with best practices
• Review internal logs and alerts to identify potential cybersecurity events
• Triage cases from automated alerts and escalate when required
• Monitor external service provider activity for cybersecurity risks
• Analyze real-time security data to identify and prevent threats
• Remediate compromised systems to a clean state
• Perform breach indicator assessments and investigate malicious network traffic
• Assist with internal or third-party employee investigations
• Produce reports identifying emerging and ongoing threats
• Research evolving threats, tools, vulnerabilities, and industry best practices
• Stay current with security program developments and industry trends

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security
• Relevant certifications preferred (CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GIAC, GCIA, CISM, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, GSEC)
• Experience in one or more domains:
  • Incident Response & Forensics
  • Security Governance & Oversight
  • Security Risk Management
  • Network Security
  • Threat & Vulnerability Management
• Experience with information security risk management, audits, and assessments
• Fluency in both Japanese and English required