A security operations center (SOC) analyst is a central role in modern security teams. SOC analysts are on the front line of cyber defense, detecting and responding to cyber attacks as they happen. Read on to understand the role, its responsibilities, and what it takes to be a great SOC analyst.
SOC2 Expert
Full-time
Remote
Negotiable
Master (>10 yrs)
English
Responsibilities
- Forensics and Incident response.
- Serve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and TTPs
- Perform forensic collection and analysis of electronic assets, devices, and log sources.
- Manage incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning.
- Threat Hunting.
- Identify, collect, and analyze threat intelligence from internal and external sources and teams
- Develop hypotheses, analyze techniques, and execute hunts to identify threats across the environment
- Interface with security teams and business stakeholders to implement countermeasures and improve defenses
- Big Data analysis and reporting.
- Utilizing SIEM/Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
- Research, develop, and enhance content within SIEM and other tools
- Technologies and Automation:
- Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
- Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
- Day to day:
- Perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response
- Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
- Provide mentoring of junior staff and serve as point of escalation for higher severity incidents
- Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement
- Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors / security controls
- Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect / mitigate the abovementioned TTPs
- Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against company network.
Qualifications
- General technical skills, includes TCP/IP knowledge, SIEM, networking and security product experience, and ticket-management systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and works well in a team environment, and willingness to acquire in-depth knowledge of network- and host security technologies and products continuously improve these skills.
- Knowledge of intermediate troubleshooting, client relations, and cybersecurity principles. Ability to implement a plan to address and mitigate security vulnerabilities. Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems. Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Benefits
- Paid time off according to local laws (sick days, vacation days)
- Health insurance
- Life insurance (Variable)
- Dental insurance (Variable)
- Vision insurance (Variable)
- Retirement benefits or accounts (In some countries)
- Disability insurance (In some countries)
- Tuition reimbursement (In some countries)
- Childcare leave (In some countries)
- Employee recognition programs
- Relocation assistance ( Subject to business needs)
- Workplace perks such as recreation activities, food and coffee, plus flexible work schedules ( For office Jobs only)
FT-4FFF0
Full-time
40 hrs/wk
Remote
Master (>10 yrs)
Regular schedule
English
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FT-4FFF0
Full-time
40 hrs/wk
Remote
Master (>10 yrs)
Regular schedule
English