Cybersecurity Analyst
- Your natural curiosity drives you to deeply understand network protocols, firewalls, and attack vectors, making you a strong analyst.
- You enjoy solving complex problems, which aligns well with incident response and vendor due diligence tasks.
- You can work autonomously on security initiatives and prioritize multiple tasks effectively when you find them intellectually engaging.
- Your logical approach helps you enforce least-privilege access policies and maintain source control security operations.
- You might find repetitive tasks like periodic access reviews or managing phishing simulation programs tedious and less motivating.
Garda Capital Partners (Garda) is a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm with over 22 years of experience deploying relative value strategies across fixed income markets for institutional investors. We hire, grow, and mentor great talent and remain steadfast in our commitment to building a culture that helps them succeed. Garda is more than a workplace. We are built on trust, integrity, and a shared vision for how we work together, the enduring relationships we build, and the consistency of our results. Garda's primary offices are located in Wayzata, New York City, West Palm Beach, Geneva, Zug, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Scottsdale.
Garda is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst with experience to support day-to-day security operations, including vulnerability management, IAM, incident response, access reviews, and security awareness initiatives. The role also involves partnering with stakeholders across the firm on security policies, vendor due diligence, and other security projects, with financial services experience preferred.
Position Responsibilities
- Run vulnerability management and patching: track findings to closure, prioritize remediation, and report on progress
- Conduct periodic user and privileged access reviews and help maintain least-privilege access across systems
- Support identity and access management (IAM) operations, including provisioning, deprovisioning, and access policy enforcement
- Handle day-to-day security operations, monitoring, and routine investigations
- Manage security awareness training and phishing simulation programs and follow up on results
- Triage and respond to incident escalations from our managed detection and response provider, driving them to resolution and escalating where appropriate
- Take ownership of analyst-level security tasks and recurring operational work to support the broader team
- Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across Garda's offices
- Policies / procedures
- Vendor due diligence
- Work on security related initiatives as directed by the security architect
Qualifications & Desired Skills
- 3-5 years in an infrastructure or security role
- Experience in financial services is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines
- Source control and pipeline security operations (GitSecOps) experience
- Solid understanding of core security concepts: network protocols, firewalls, common attack vectors, and risk
- Professional certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISM, or CISSP are a plus
- Detail-oriented, with strong verbal and written communication skills
Best personality fits for this role
You have a strong technical aptitude and hands-on approach, perfect for vulnerability management and security operations.
Read the ISTP career guide →You excel at strategic thinking and long-term planning, which helps you prioritize vulnerability remediation effectively.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your meticulous attention to detail ensures accuracy in periodic access reviews and vulnerability tracking.
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