Senior MDR Analyst

About the role

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our dynamic team as a Threat Hunting Analyst. This is a Monday through Friday day shift position.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24x7x365 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment via conducting lead-less threat hunting.
• Collaborate with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Analysts to research and investigate emerging cyber security threats; become an escalation point of contact for advanced intrusion analysis.
• Develop Incident analysis reports and work across business units and customers to bring issues to a close.
• Help design and build operational processes and procedures to improve overall SOC efficiency.
• Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis based on security events for many independent customer environments.
• Build test lab environments to research emerging techniques and make contributions to the internal and external knowledge development of threat operations.
• Review sandbox technologies for additional Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) uncovered from artifacts uncovered during analysis.

Requirements

• Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role.
• Progressive relevant training and/or certification may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement.
• Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Next Generation Antivirus (NGAV), and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process.
• Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.).
• Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX;
• Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching)
• Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365
• Experience in developing, refining, and performing leadless threat hunting analysis to uncover new or potential incidents and report on results
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Network/System Administration and/or Engineering
• Deep forensic knowledge of Windows, Mac OS and/or Linux
• Experience in Digital Forensics and Incident Response
• Malware Analysis (Behavioral and/or Static analysis- IDA, Cuckoo Sandbox, x86/x64 Debugging)
• Pentesting/Red/Blue Team
• Capture The Flag (CTF) Development

Skills

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

Blackpoint Cyber offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks.

Pay

Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Monday through Friday day shift position.