Security Operations Center Analyst SOC L2

Defense Analyst

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• The Defense Analysts will provide continuous monitoring and analysis of systems to identify suspected malicious or unauthorized activity across global and regional infrastructure,
• Provide first level response for security events including but not limited to intrusion detection, malware infections, denial of service attacks, privileged account misuse and network breaches
• Provide event management that includes effective triage, correlation and enrichment of individual events to either rule out as false positive, trigger standard directives and corrective responses or escalating as a security incident
• Ensure that all security incidents are handled and resolved within respective SLA
• Develops focused reporting and briefings for advanced cyber threats and activity to various teams and leaders

Qualification

• Experience in log review and analysis, logical thinking and ability to correlate events
• Ability to triage events, demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and solution orientation and to learn and adapt quickly
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Has a sense of diplomacy and decision-making skills to handle the often fast-paced role of an incident handler
• Prior experience with SIEM, EDR, Network technologies (Firewalls, Proxies, IPS)
• Understanding of working in a 24/7/365 SOC environment
• Knowledge of SOAR technology and workflows (Desired)
• Prior experience working with in the following areas: (Desired)
• Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
• Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC)
• Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Industry certification such as the following: (Desired)
• Security+, CEH, SANS (GCIH, GPEN, GWAT, GXPN, GCFA, GCFE, GREM)

Additional relevant information

• SOC is a 24/7 operation,
• Candidate should possess a curious investigative mind, an interest in information security, and new & innovative technologies,
• Job location: Hyderabad