Green Card IT Security Analyst Jobs
IT Security Analyst roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires employers to document recruitment efforts before filing an I-140 petition. Cybersecurity demand has driven consistent sponsorship activity across financial services, healthcare, and defense contracting sectors.
Find Green Card IT Security Analyst JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 24+ IT Security Analyst jobs
See all IT Security Analyst Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new IT Security Analyst roles.
Get Access To All JobsINTRODUCTION
Discover Your Career at Emory University: Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.
ABOUT THE JOB
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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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, vendor-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.
ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:
- An experienced cybersecurity professional that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
- Works semi-independently with periodic management check-ins, in close collaboration with analyst's own team.
- Requires communication with IT leadership.
- Career progression to this point includes experience with cloud platform solutions.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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).
LOCATION
NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location. Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee. Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ, AK, and HI, any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.
Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD).
Emory University is committed to ensuring equal access and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to seek a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Department of Accessibility Services at accessibility@emory.edu or call 404-727-9877 (Voice) | 404-712-2049 (TDD). We kindly ask that requests be made at least seven business days in advance to allow adequate time for coordination.
INTRODUCTION
Discover Your Career at Emory University: Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.
ABOUT THE JOB
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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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, vendor-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.
ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:
- An experienced cybersecurity professional that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
- Works semi-independently with periodic management check-ins, in close collaboration with analyst's own team.
- Requires communication with IT leadership.
- Career progression to this point includes experience with cloud platform solutions.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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).
LOCATION
NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location. Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee. Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ, AK, and HI, any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.
Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD).
Emory University is committed to ensuring equal access and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to seek a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Department of Accessibility Services at accessibility@emory.edu or call 404-727-9877 (Voice) | 404-712-2049 (TDD). We kindly ask that requests be made at least seven business days in advance to allow adequate time for coordination.
See all Green Card IT Security Analyst Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Green Card IT Security Analyst Jobs.
Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an IT Security Analyst
Align your credentials to specialty occupation standards
PERM requires your degree field to directly relate to your IT Security Analyst duties. A computer science or information security degree strengthens your case; a general business degree with no IT coursework can trigger an RFE during the I-140 stage.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search OFLC disclosure data for employers who have previously filed PERM applications under SOC code 15-1212 for information security analysts. Repeat filers have established sponsorship workflows and are less likely to stall at the offer stage.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers by role
Filter by IT Security Analyst roles with green card sponsorship history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces employers who have completed PERM filings in your specialty, so you focus your applications where sponsorship infrastructure already exists.
Verify your job duties match the PERM job description
DOL audits PERM applications when the advertised role differs from your actual duties. Before signing an offer, confirm the job description your employer files reflects what you will genuinely do, including specific security frameworks, tools, and compliance responsibilities.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 placement before your employer files
Employers choose whether to file under EB-2 or EB-3 based on the minimum requirements for the role, not your personal qualifications. If the position requires only a bachelor's degree, USCIS will classify it as EB-3 regardless of whether you hold a master's degree.
Ask about concurrent I-485 filing before accepting an offer
If your priority date is current when the I-140 is approved, you can file for adjustment of status immediately rather than waiting years in the queue. Confirm your employer's attorney is prepared to handle concurrent filing, as not all sponsors offer this.
Green Card IT Security Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an IT Security Analyst role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
It depends on how the employer defines the minimum requirements for the position. If the role requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, it typically qualifies under EB-3. If the employer sets a master's degree or equivalent as the minimum, USCIS will classify it as EB-2. Your personal credentials above the minimum do not change the category.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for IT Security Analysts?
Green card sponsorship through PERM is permanent residency, not a temporary status. There is no annual lottery, and EB-3 filings for most countries outside India and China face far shorter queues than H-1B visa renewals imply. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone can take six to eighteen months before the I-140 even gets filed, making early employer conversations critical.
What does the PERM process require from the employer for this role?
Your employer must conduct a formal recruitment campaign under DOL rules, including job postings, print advertisements, and internal notices, to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available. For IT Security Analyst positions, this means advertising the specific technical requirements of the role. If DOL audits the application, detailed documentation of each recruitment step is required before certification is granted.
Where can I find IT Security Analyst jobs with active green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface roles where employers have a documented green card sponsorship history. Because cybersecurity roles often appear across multiple sectors, filtering by sponsorship activity rather than just job title helps you identify employers who have completed PERM filings for information security positions rather than those who simply say they are open to sponsorship.
Can my priority date be protected if I change employers after the I-140 is approved?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved and has been pending for at least 180 days, you can port your priority date to a new employer in a same or similar occupational category under AC21 portability rules. For IT Security Analysts, moving to a related cybersecurity or information technology role at a new employer generally satisfies this requirement, but you should confirm with your attorney before resigning.