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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Security Architecture Analyst II (Cybersecurity) - **Company:** Emory University - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Vision, User Authentication, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Cyber Security, Databases, Information Security Management, Mobile Application Software, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Network Segmentation, NoSQL, Remote Access Technology, Systems Architecture, Google Cloud, Chatbots, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Agentic-AI, Information Technology, Graphql, Docker, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** October 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ed64c2c716126e8d ## About the Role * A bachelor's degree and three years of related IT experience including demonstrated experience in relevant information security domains, project management skills, OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. * Excellent project management and team participation skills. * Good written and verbal communication skills. * A solid background in IT solutions and security concepts, and their development, deployment, and administration., * Experience or exposure to technologies such as AI (chatbots, LLM, ML, DL, generative, NLP, computer vision, agentic, etc.), research cybersecurity (human subject research studies), cloud security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), Microsoft-connected security concepts (Entra, Graph API, Fabric, etc.), programming fundamentals and code reviews, API, and other academic, research, and/or healthcare relevant technologies. * Exposure to architecture components such as: systems/VMs/docker, networking, databases/NoSQL, mobile apps, authentication, and other enterprise-related architecture offerings. * Additionally, experience in healthcare, university, research, cloud, or medium-to-large enterprise environments in general would be beneficial. * Strongly preferred qualifications include knowledge of information security technologies, methodologies, and best practices in the domains of security architecture, vulnerability identification and safeguards, data protection, business continuity, and other relevant security concepts, practices, and experiences. * Security certifications are a plus (e.g. SANS/GIAC, CISSP, CISA, CISM, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc). ## Description The IT Security Architecture Analyst, within Emory's Enterprise Information Security team, will be primarily responsible for working with the Enterprise Security and other Emory IT teams to identify, evaluate, and implement security controls for IT services. The services may be at the individual, department, division, or enterprise-levels in support of delivering the missions for both Emory University and Emory Healthcare., * Responsible for contributing to and performing security risk assessments for various IT solutions, including risk identification, analysis, and evaluation, identifying remediation and/or mitigation requirements and recommendations, and handing off the associated risks to the enterprise risk register management process. * Seeks and applies guidance and direction for internal and external customers based on policies, published guidelines, best practices, and industry recommendations. * Supports team by performing research and analysis of vulnerabilities and related consultation to internal and external customers about those vulnerabilities. * Helps to ensure that information security safeguards and controls are properly communicated and adhered to. Assessments include various IT solution providers, and the applications, processes, vendors, and technologies used by departments, divisions, or the enterprise in support of those solutions * - either on-premise, cloud-based, vender-hosted, or custom in-house developed. * In addition to conducting risk assessments, this position contributes to the identification of improvements for multiple areas, to include the risk management process and tool improvements. * Works closely with teams across cloud engineering, enterprise information security, IT, privacy, compliance, legal, procurement, research, and numerous business units to help protect assets for the institution. * Applies background knowledge in IT, system architecture and security, and/or security vendor risk assessments and continually conducts research into new technologies and vulnerabilities across the industry. * Contributes to development of risk analysis tools and provides functional guidance and direction to internal and external customer teams in overall security risk assessments of projects. * Assists with the interpretation of information security policies and requirements or their applicability. * Performs risk assessments of client vendors through risk assessment toolkit against various frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, NIST, etc), collecting data and identifying areas of compliance/non-compliance through written assessment reports. * Assesses risk for various components of a particular solution's architecture, such as: solution services, security controls, network, operating system, database, storage, application vulnerability assessments, security configuration settings, virus prevention and remediation, encryption, network segmentation, remote access, and authentication. * As a member of the Enterprise Security team, the position will also be tasked with other information security related tasks and projects as necessary. * This position may be called upon to assist with information security activities with university or healthcare units across the enterprise. * Performs other related duties as required.