Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
Maxmind (www.maxmind.com) is looking for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated information security analystWe help protect thousands of companies worldwide from fraud, screening over a billion online transactions each year, and we provide ip intelligence data to thousands moreSecurity and compliance is important and we want you to help!
Note: we welcome candidates to apply from the following states ca, co, fl, la, mn, nv, ny state (excluding new york city and yonkers), nc, or, pa, tx, wa, and anywhere in canada.
Maxmind does not currently sponsor us employment visasFor canadian candidates, you must be eligible/authorized to work in canada.
The position
Maxmind employs a federated security operating model in order to move quickly and integrate security expertise across the business, engineering, and development teamsWorking with the information security manager, you as an individual contributor will work on maintaining and enhancing maxmind’s security and data privacy programYou will have the ability to understand concepts from a multitude of sources including regulatory frameworks, privacy regulations, and contractual obligations and apply them to maxmind in a variety of areas including policies, procedures, awareness/training, and collaborative discussionsYou will have a thirst for self-learning by keeping up with the current security and privacy landscape, attending conferences and trainings, asking questions, and generally being inquisitive about how to keep improving.
Maxmind operates globally and as such adheres to domestic, international, and industry security, and privacy regulations and frameworksThis is a great opportunity for someone with an engineering, it operations, or analyst background to have direct hands on responsibility and ownership of critical components of a maturing security and privacy program.
You will be exposed to a wide variety of security and privacy technologies, requirements, and conceptsYou will interact with members of engineering and non-engineering teams as a steward of the security and privacy program so that you can provide guidance and participate in discussions in a meaningful way.
Our salary range for this information security analyst role begins at $85k usd or $107 cad (in canada), with the specific offer dependent upon skills and experienceSee more about benefits and compensation below.
On a day to day basis, you will
Assist with supporting the supplier security program, business continuity plan, security and awareness training, incident response program, risk assessments, vulnerability management and data privacy program.
Assist with responding to security questionnaires.
Assist in the coordination and completion of information security operations documentation, including security and privacy related policies and procedures.
Work on security assurance by identifying and directing areas to enhance monitoring in order to verify that policy and procedures are adhered to and that controls are operational.
Research, evaluate, and recommend information security and privacy related controls on systems, applications, and platforms.
Identify policy and risk management objectives, independent of pre-existing frameworks and implementationsRefactor security policies and standards to focus on the right controls.
Track and report on information security vulnerabilities and risks.
Perform reviews on policies, procedures, inventory, and configurations.
Respond to data privacy requests.
Assist with the configuration management and reporting of av, vulnerability scanning, password management, and google workspace.
About you: minimum qualifications
One year of professional experience in information security or in a similar business unit like compliance, audit, or it operations.
Strong writing skills in order to create and maintain documentation such as policies, procedures, awareness training, guidance, and customer support documentation.
Self motivated and able to prioritize work accordingly.
Strong understanding of key concepts including confidentiality, integrity, availability, and access control.
Familiarity with data privacy regulations and the ability to develop an expertise with them.
Must be able to work in a remote and highly collaborative environment.
Must be able to understand high level plans and to create prioritized tasks, procedures, deadlines with minimal direction in order to support the implementation of them.
About you: highly desired, but not required
Experience with cloud platformsGoogle workspace is a plus.
Experience with iso 27001:2013, soc, owasp, nist.
Capability with spreadsheets including formulas, pivot tables, and filters.
Education related to information assurance or equivalent industry certifications.
Why work at maxmind?
In a recent survey, employees listed having a supportive work culture, good co-workers, autonomy, and feeling trusted, valued, and respected as some of the things they like most about working here.
Maxmind has a social missionMaxmind donates over 60% of profits to charitiesWe would like to thank our team and customers for making this possible.
Maxmind’s compensation strives to reward getting stuff done, quality of work, and working well with others.
Our culture is very important to usWe’re friendly, collaborative, and work-focusedWe don’t like office politics and unnecessary stressWe like to have productive workdays and don’t like work to chase us when we’re done for the dayWe maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but are flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life eventsWe care about helping each other succeed.
Our office recently reopenedMost employees are still working remotelyIn normal times, about half of employees are fully remote, and half work from our office some days of the weekCommunication centers around video chat, group chat, and agile planning tools.
Normally, we hold an annual company summit one time per year in waltham, ma.
Benefits
In addition to competitive compensation, our us benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and short and long term disability insurance, a safe harbor 401(k) with employer contribution, health savings account, limited purpose flexible spending account, dependent care account, paid parental leave, and public transit reimbursement.
Our canadian benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, short and long term disability insurance, employee and family assistance program, and paid parental leaveYou also have access to a group retirement savings planIn lieu of a canadian rrsp contribution we provide a bonus payout at the end of each year that employees may decide to use toward retirement savings.
Everyone participates in a company performance-based bonus planMaxmind offers a $2,000 professional development budget and five days for professional development annually.
Diversity and inclusion
We`re committed to diversity and inclusion and are mindful of incorporating them into all aspects of our company.
We encourage and sincerely welcome applications from candidates of color, women, queer candidates, candidates with family caregiving responsibilities, transgender candidates, and from other communities not well represented in the tech world.
See our complete diversity and inclusion statement - https://www.maxmind.com/en/company/working-at-maxmind.
Resumes without cover letters will not be consideredWe want to know about you, please share any projects or accomplishments and include a link so we can learn moreOne of the first steps in our interviewing process is a homework assignment, and we will ask you for a submission so we can gain insight into your work.
