Cybersecurity Analyst

About the role

Garda Capital Partners is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to support daily security operations, including vulnerability management, identity and access management, and incident response. The role involves partnering with stakeholders on security policies, vendor due diligence, and security awareness initiatives.

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

Required skills

• Vulnerability management
• IAM
• Incident response
• Access reviews
• Security awareness
• Infrastructure
• GitSecOps
• Network protocols
• Firewalls

Nice to have

• Financial services experience

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in an infrastructure or security role
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines
• Solid understanding of core security concepts: network protocols, firewalls, common attack vectors, and risk
• Detail-oriented, with strong verbal and written communication skills

Certifications

• CompTIA Security+
• CISM
• CISSP

About the Company

Garda Capital Partners 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. The firm maintains offices in Wayzata, New York City, West Palm Beach, Geneva, Zug, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Scottsdale.