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The analyst works closely with end point owners, infrastructure and network security teams, and with enterprise security teams to meet NIH mandates.\nYou will be part of a broader IT program that provides end-to-end support-including help desk, systems, network, incident response and security services-ensuring the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of mission-critical systems.\nResponsibilities\nImplement security controls, and ensure compliant cloud environments on AWS, GCP, or Azure adhering to FISMA, NIH policy, and federal security requirements \nRecommend, design and support Cloud security services and control implementation including Identity Access, Privileged access, Vulnerability management, Configuration compliance, encryption, and centralized security log management \nMonitor cloud environments for security events, anomalies, and configuration drift using SIEM (e.g., Splunk), conduct vulnerabilities assessments, track remediation and maintain dashboards with measurable metrics to report overall security posture\nIntegrate and optimize enterprise security solutions such as Splunk, Tenable and other data sources to enhance continuous monitoring, event correlation, and compliance visibility across NLM’s hybrid environment\nInvestigate and respond to security incidents and alerts, perform root-cause analysis and proper remediation actions and reporting per NIH’s established incident response plan\nConduct threat modeling and security assessments of cloud deployments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, develop security requirements and provide guidance for applications migrating from on-prem implementations to the cloud environment\nEnhance and automate security and compliance checks using a combination of available tools and scripting; 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