[Remote] IT Security Analyst - Junior

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPITEC is seeking a Junior IT Security Analyst to join its Cyber Engagement team. The role supports social engineering simulations, campaign analysis, security awareness reinforcement, behavior-focused training recommendations, metrics, dashboards, and stakeholder collaboration to improve organizational security behavior.

Responsibilities

• Research and monitor the social engineering threat landscape to inform risk-based simulation priorities, campaign themes, and timely response recommendations
• Plan, coordinate, execute, and evaluate social engineering simulations and testing, including phishing, vishing, and other relevant scenarios where appropriate
• Analyze campaign performance, user trends, reporting behaviors, and root causes to identify patterns and opportunities for focused and role-based training
• Translate simulation results and security signals into practical training recommendations, reinforcement needs, and behavior-focused improvement opportunities
• Support in-the-moment and event-driven reinforcement for unplanned or time-sensitive communications, helping reinforce secure behaviors
• Develop clear metrics, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries that connect human insights to business outcomes and measurable behavior change
• Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve reporting processes, including centralized metrics and KPIs for Cyber Engagement
• Collaborate with Awareness and Training, Cyber Resiliency, business partners, and other stakeholders to align messaging and learning needs
• Support external vendor relationship management for simulation and response capabilities, including coordination and continuous improvement opportunities

Skills

• 2-5 years of experience in cybersecurity awareness, social engineering simulation or related security discipline
• Experience designing, supporting, or measuring social engineering simulations, user awareness campaigns, behavior change initiatives, and remediation efforts
• Ability to transform security and user behavior data into meaningful metrics, executive-level reporting, and risk-informed recommendations
• Experience developing dashboards and reporting using Power BI or similar analytics tools
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data in Excel, identify trends and patterns, develop meaningful insights, and present findings in a clear, actionable manner
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and partner effectively across technical and business teams
• Experience using security awareness and training tools (examples: KnowBe4 and Proofpoint)

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Contract duration of 5 months with possible extension

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