Salesforce Security Analyst
Locations: East Peoria, IL; Dallas, TX; or Nashville, TN (On-site)
Daily Schedule: Monday–Friday; 1st shift
Pay Rate: $63 – 67/hourly with optional benefits packages including PTO, medical insurance, and 401k
Job Description:
The Salesforce Security Analyst will deliver security, governance, and Salesforce administration expertise for our enterprise. The Salesforce Security and Governance team is an innovative and collaborative team that works to protect our client’s intellectual property and information across a global enterprise environment.
This role will develop strategy, roadmap, and execution for our Salesforce Security program. This position will assist with discovering, assessing, and addressing new security challenges facing the organization across several Salesforce implementations.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Member of a small team that coordinates and implements Salesforce security risk assessments, providing consulting services to define, design, develop, implement, and maintain security processes, technologies, and systems.
- Monitors security risks and must be aware of security trends to deliver appropriate risk mitigation and proactive auditing.
Typical Task Breakdown:
- Performs engineering of security capabilities within Salesforce environments.
- Utilizes and develops standards, practices, processes, audits, playbooks, accelerators, and documentation to establish, manage, and report adherence to the program.
- Partners to build, operate, and remediate continuous control assessments within Salesforce platform.
- Utilizes Salesforce security tools such as Security Center, Optimizer, and Health Check.
- Acts as a subject matter expert on the implementation and capabilities of existing security controls for Salesforce.
- Works closely with Salesforce teams to ensure security initiatives align with other key initiatives that may have interdependencies.
- Anticipates and identifies security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, advising stakeholders with reliable, timely, and complete information while designing and implementing strategies to mitigate incidents impacting Salesforce.
- Analyzes, advises, and evaluates security configurations to protect Salesforce environment from unauthorized disclosure or misuse.
- Develops collaborative relationships and provides expertise, technical guidance, and training to the Salesforce community.
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT security focus preferred with 6+ years’ experience.
- No degree: minimum 8+ years’ experience.
Technical Skills
Required:
- Previous experience as a Salesforce Administrator.
- Knowledge and experience implementing security controls for Salesforce.
- Experience with Cybersecurity concepts such as Threat Monitoring, Privileged Access, and Identity and Access Management.
- Security expertise with the Salesforce.com platform.
- Experience leading remediation efforts across a complex IT landscape.
- 5 years’ experience with overall cybersecurity.
- Working experience with Salesforce or enterprise-scale cloud security or engineering.
- Experience working with architectural designs, processes, and procedures.
- Experience working closely with Salesforce information security tools and processes (e.g., Salesforce Health Checks, Salesforce Shield, Security Center).
Desired:
- Ranger-level badges for Security and Administration on Salesforce Trailhead training platform.
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical information to business clients and less experienced technologists.
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
Soft Skills (Required)
- Excellent communication skills (including documentation).
- Ability to collaborate with a team.
- Ability to influence.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Azure DevOps a plus).
- Taking initiative, self-starter.
- Focus on quality.
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