Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally-based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As senior Senior Cyber Security Analyst you will be responsible for the detailed investigation of the systems that raise alerts and those that are escalated by the Tier 1 SOC analysts and will recommend or initiate appropriate courses of action to support overall Readiness requirements.

• Monitoring systems and processes security events and incidents using established processes

• Performing deep analysis of events and incidents escalated by Tier-1 security analysts.

• Delegating the investigation of detected events to Tier-1 Security analysts

• Determining whether critical systems and data are affected and initiates or recommends corrective actions.

• Maintaining and updates detection rulesets following established processes.

• Maintaining and updates an incident log and a lessons learned

• Categorizing and reports incidents following established procedures.

• Supporting the 24x7x365 SOC by providing a view of security events and network activity

• Mentoring and supporting Tier-1 security analysts

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Quality experience in working as a network security analyst in a security operations center

• Extensive experience with all phases of incident response

• Extensive experience in the inner-workings of Operating systems (Windows and Linux-based)

• Extensive knowledge of network communications and routing protocols

• Experience in programming and/or scripting languages

• Extensive experience using SIEM applications

• Experience managing and prioritizing large volume of alerts

• Experience managing , analyzing, editing and crafting Intrusion Detection rules

• Practical experience in Information Security concepts and technology

• English - excellent verbal and written communications skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

• GIAC GCIH Certification

• GIAC GCIA Certification

• Microsoft Certified Windows Server Administrator (or equivalent Windows Certification)

• Redhat Certified Systems Administrator (or equivalent Linux certification)

• CISSP / CISM or equivalent certification

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