Journeyman SOC Analyst (Q Clearance)

Who we are

ShorePoint is a fast-growing, industry recognized and award-winning cybersecurity services firm with a focus on high-profile, high-threat, private and public-sector customers who demand experience and proven security models to protect their data. ShorePoint subscribes to a “work hard, play hard” mentality and celebrates individual and company successes. We are passionate about our mission and going above and beyond to deliver for our customers. We are equally passionate about an environment that supports creativity, accountability, diversity, inclusion and a focus on giving back to our community.

What we offer

• 18 days of PTO
• 11 holidays
• 85% of insurance premium covered
• 401k
• continued education
• certifications maintenance and reimbursement

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking a Journeyman SOC Analyst (Q Clearance) for a potential opportunity to provide advanced monitoring, triage and response within a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) environment. This role plays a key part in identifying and investigating security incidents, advising on mitigation and improving monitoring content and procedures.

What you’ll be doing

• Monitor client sources of potential security incidents, health alerts with monitored solutions and requests for information.
• This includes the monitoring of real-time channels or dashboards, periodic reports, email inboxes, helpdesk or other ticketing systems, telephone calls and chat sessions.
• Follow client and incident-specific procedures to perform triage of potential security incidents to validate and determine needed mitigation.
• Escalate potential security incidents to client personnel, implement countermeasures in response to others and recommend operational improvements.
• Keep accurate incident notes in the case management system.
• Maintain awareness of the client’s technology architecture, known weaknesses, the architecture of the security solutions used for monitoring, imminent and pervasive threats as identified by client threat intelligence and recent security incidents.
• Perform web hunting for new patterns/activities.
• Advise on content development and testing.
• Provide advice and guidance on the response action plans for information risk events and incidents based on incident type and severity.
• Ensure that all identified events are promptly validated and thoroughly investigated.
• Provide end-to-end event analysis, incident detection and manage escalations using documented procedures.
• Devise and document new procedures and runbooks/playbooks as directed.
• Maintain monthly Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Maintain compliance with processes, runbooks, templates and procedures-based experience and best practices.
• Aid the Cyber Hunting team with advanced investigations as needed.
• Provide malware analysis (executables, scripts, documents) to determine indicators of compromise and create signatures for future detection of similar samples.
• Continuously improve the service by identifying and correcting issues or gaps in knowledge (analysis procedures, plays, client network models), false positive tuning, identifying and recommending new or updated tools, content, countermeasures, scripts, plug-ins, etc.
• Provide shift status and metric reporting as well as support weekly operations calls.

What you need to know

• Strong understanding of SOC operations, incident response workflows and monitoring tools.
• Experience with malware behavior analysis and identification of indicators of compromise.
• Familiarity with APT tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Knowledge of security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS and WAF.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and infrastructure devices.
• Awareness of security architecture principles and common defensive tools.

Must have’s

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 2+ years of working in a SOC or similar security operations environment, including 1+ years of experience in security technologies such as:
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).
• IDS/IPS, DLP, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
• Web Application Firewall (WAF), anti-virus and sandboxing solutions.
• Host- and network-based firewalls, threat intelligence platforms or penetration testing tools.

• (ISC)2 Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP)
• GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
• GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or equivalent.

• Proven ability to analyze complex requirements and translate them into clear, actionable tasks and processes through critical thinking.
• Must have the ability to work shifts on a rotating basis for 24/7 support of clients.
• Travel up to 15%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Additional qualifications

• Applicants must currently hold and maintain an active DOE Q or equivalent DoD Top Secret clearance.

Where it’s done

Onsite (Las Vegas, NV).