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Job Details

Job Title: IT Support Analyst

Location: Remote

It’s time for a new vision of ad intelligence. Vivvix unifies the advertising intelligence businesses of Kantar and Numerator into an independent company built for innovation, focused on delivering winning clarity for our clients to drive smarter, faster, better decisions. Our vision is to help anyone understand their competitive landscape and view all the dimensions of advertising that might go unseen.

At Vivvix, we have three powerful tenets. We help clients build up a greater understanding of your competitive landscape. We level up advertisers, agencies, and media owners to take command over competitors. We enable them to power up and chart a winning path for themselves.

Description:

Vivvix is looking for an IT security analyst who will be part of Cross Domain functional technology team and would be responsible to provide governance across advance technology platforms. The candidate will need technical background and acumen to uncover risk areas while working closely with architecture and engineering teams. Experience with information security governance is crucial to this role. Candidate should be comfortable to navigate through ambiguous situations to succeed.

Responsibilities:

• Leads regulatory examinations and internal and external IT security audits as needed.

• Maintains up-to-date baselines and for the secure configuration and operations of all external and internal applications and cloud assets.

• Monitors all in-place security solutions for efficient and appropriate operations.

• Reviews security logs and reports of all possible threats and intrusions.

• Participates in investigations into problematic activity as it relates to IT security.

• Assists in the planning and design of a robust enterprise security architecture.

• Maintains enterprise security documentation (standards, baselines, guidelines and procedures).

• Assists in the planning and design of an enterprise Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan, under the direction of the IT management.

• Participates in the design and execution of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and security audits.

• Maintains up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes, and the development of new attacks and threat vectors.

• Recommends additional security solutions or enhancements to existing security solutions to improve overall enterprise security.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

• 4+ year experience with in-depth information security expertise

• Experience gathering evidence for controls to get certifications such as SOC2 or ISO27001

• Experience evaluating risks with external vendors

• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps/JIRA preferred

• Ability to work in a collaborative and team environment

• Exceptionally self-motivated with strong written and oral communication, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills

Country

United States of America

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.  We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.