SOC Analyst

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

• Alert Triage: Monitoring security alerts, analyzing and prioritizing them based on potential impact and severity.
• Incident Detection and Response: Acting as Incident Owner to see incidents through the incident response lifecycle to ensure swift mitigation and recovery.
• Ensure compliance: Verify that security policies are properly enforced through vulnerability management, patch management, configuration management, etc.
• Continuous Improvement: Driving the refinement of SOC standard operating procedures, analytic rules, playbooks, and other commonly consumed SOC resources.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintaining meticulous documentation of incidents, analysis findings, and lessons learned.
• Partner with team members to ensure data is protected from unauthorized internal and external access, modification, or disclosure.
• Support activities to foster information security awareness within the organization.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Education and Work Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Security or related technical field or equivalent technical capabilities.
• Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities: Basic knowledge and understanding of: security incident and event management (SIEM) including log monitoring and management, local area networks and firewalls, Active Directory, group policy objects, scripting, encryption, web filtering, exploits and hacker techniques, and, network and operating system security principles. Professional scripting experience: Python, PowerShell, or similar. Professional experience applying cyber security fundamentals and concepts. Experienced in installing security software and documenting security issues. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Desire and drive to learn, grow and develop key cyber skills and competencies.
• (Preferred): Basic knowledge of IAM/IDPs and PAM. Experience with AWS and/or Azure. Experience with Windows, Mac OS, Unix/Linux operating systems.