Cybersecurity Analyst

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of IT, the Cybersecurity Analyst is responsible for on-the-ground security operations supporting Imaging Associates’ 24/7 critical IT infrastructure and the Connect49 teleradiology platform. This platform enables Alaska Radiology Associates radiologists to provide subspecialized interpretations for Imaging Associates outpatient centers, Providence Alaska Medical Center, and other critical access hospitals across Alaska. Partnering with our managed SOC (Lumifi), this role serves as the dedicated internal resource with on-site presence and operational authority to triage alerts from automated NDR, EDR, and SIEM systems. The Analyst investigates tickets requiring internal input, escalates critical threats, owns vulnerability scanning and remediation tracking, leads user security awareness training and monitoring, contributes to security policies and procedures, and drives continuous security posture analysis and improvement while ensuring continuous uptime, HIPAA and SOC2 compliance, and protection of PHI and imaging workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts and tickets from NDR, EDR, SIEM systems and the external SOC, providing the internal context and action required for resolution.
• Escalate critical or high-severity findings to the Director of IT and relevant IT teams.
• Own vulnerability scanning: schedule scans, analyze results, prioritize findings, track remediation, and report on risk reduction.
• Lead user security awareness training, including program development and delivery, phishing simulation support, and ongoing initiatives.
• Assist in developing, maintaining, and improving security policies, procedures, and documentation supporting HIPAA, SOC2, and operational excellence.
• Perform ongoing security posture analysis and recommend or implement controls across identity (Microsoft Active Directory with Entra ID hybrid sync), certificates, key stores, APIs, VPNs, and related systems.
• Coordinate with Network & Systems and Applications/PACS teams on security configuration, vulnerability remediation, and application-level considerations for PACS (Intelerad), VNA (Terramedica), RIS, HL7/DICOM integrations, and Connect49.
• Maintain clear documentation of incidents, investigations, remediations, vulnerability findings, and posture assessments.
• Participate in emergency duties as needed (evenings, weekends, or holidays) and rotate between Imaging Associates sites. Occasional travel for professional development.

Qualifications

Education: Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field preferred. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Experience: Two to four years in cybersecurity operations, SOC/analyst roles, incident response, or equivalent, combined with a solid IT networking and systems administration background.

• Strong familiarity with firewalls (preferably Cisco FMC/FTD), certificates and key stores, APIs, VPNs, identity and access management (Microsoft Active Directory with Entra ID / Azure AD hybrid sync), hybrid environments, storage systems, and Cisco networking.
• Experience triaging and investigating alerts from SIEM, EDR, NDR, or MDR/SOC platforms.
• Preferred: Healthcare IT, regulated environments, or imaging/PACS/teleradiology systems (HL7, DICOM).
• Preferred: CompTIA Security+ and/or CySA+ (or equivalent).
• Expected proficiency with Microsoft Office products and strong documentation skills.
• Preferred knowledge of HIPAA, SOC2, and healthcare security standards.

Other: Excellent customer service and collaboration skills; ability to multitask with frequent interruptions; strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; willingness to rotate between Anchorage, Eagle River, and Palmer sites; ability to travel occasionally. Regular attendance required. Must be able to read, write, and speak English.

Physical Demands: Regularly required to sit and talk or hear. Frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Close vision required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Imaging Associates is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal or Alaska law.