SENIOR SECURITY ANALYST

As a Senior Security Analyst, you will be monitoring infiltration attempts, analyzing logs and ensure infiltration attempts are identified and dealt with in a timely manner. You will be analyzing security events, conducting incident response and investigations. You will also help to mentor junior security analysts, build our detection and response capabilities, and continuously evolve the team to be more efficient through the creation of tools.

You will be part of the global security operations center team that provides 24/7 coverage of our enterprise applications. Working 5-days of day shift/weekends is expected.

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Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Continuously monitor assets and respond to active threats to and within the enterprise.
• Detect, report, assess, and respond to information security incidents.
• Develop and maintain detection content to detect nefarious activities within the enterprise.
• Perform analysis of log files from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, and intrusion detection system logs) to identify possible threats.
• Conducting incident response and investigation.
• Identify root cause of cybersecurity incidents.
• Develop detections and response playbooks.
• Continuously improve processes through automation and tools creation.
• Provide mentorship to junior security analysts

Required Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in traffic and log analysis.
• Familiar with tools such as Elastic Search or EDR solutions.
• Good understanding of computer security, network and operating systems.
• Experience in script programming (PowerShell, Python).
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience in malware analysis.
• Knowledge in forensic analysis is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related discipline.

Travel Requirements:

• 5%

Disclaimer:

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