Sr. Security Operations Analyst

Overview

The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst – CSOC is a Senior level non-management role that reports directly to the CSOC Manager. They will be responsible for guiding a hybrid team of security analysts tasked to detect, Triage, analyze, respond, and report cybersecurity incidents in addition to performing advanced analysis and assisting with incident response. A successful candidate will be able to use experience, knowledge, and critical thinking to perform CSOC duties that deviate from daily norms with minimal guidance and mentor more junior analysts on the solution.

Absolutely must work a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite) out of our Atlanta office.

Role & Responsibilities

• Security Operations – In-depth security event analysis
• Facilitate and oversee the execution of day-to-day directions given by CSOC Manager
• Enhancing detection and alert maturity
• Enhancing technical and administrative processes and procedures
• Providing blue team subject matter expertise to advise CSOC Leadership and mentor Analysts
• Document and communicate findings and after-action reports to the entire security team
• Review investigations and perform QA/QC
• Drive alert logic refinement through tuning and whitelisting
• Train and Mentor Associate and Mid-level Analysts
• Perform Tier 3 On Call rotations to include Weekends or Nights Support IR Investigations – Incident coordination by assignment of Work Streams and creation of reports
• Serve as the technical escalation point for the CSOC team
• Provide ad-hoc training to team members
• Project Work – Perform CSOC maturity projects under the guidance of Cyber Operations Leadership
• Partner with Security Engineering teams to enhance features and capabilities within current security tooling
• Create and update written policies and procedures

Qualifications & Experiences

• 5 -7 years of relevant experience or equivalent demonstratable knowledge & skill set
• Ability to think critically to solve problems with minimal guidance
• Ability to perform comprehensive Incident, root cause analysis and write technical reports
• Experience performing manual log analysis from a variety of host-based and network-based sources
• Experience conducting security investigations without the assistance of pre-extracted data or pre-established queries across multiple platforms such as Splunk, OS CLI/Terminal, Sentinel One, etc.
• Experience using modern CSOC/Fusion Center enterprise security suite
• Familiarity with Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) concepts
• Experience participating in CIRT/CSIRT investigations
• Knowledge of exploits, vulnerabilities, malware families and common attack vectors
• Scripting (Python, PowerShell, bash), regex experience is a plus
• Experience with firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems
• Effective in collaborating with teams in remote offices and multiple cultures across the globe
• Intermediate or higher Security Certifications are a plus - CYSA+, CISSP, CFR, CHFI, GCIH, GCFA, or GNFA, PenTest+, OSCP, etc.
• Ability to tailor complicated Security and Technical information to the comprehension levels of intended audiences, whether that be non-technical Senior Executives or highly technical Subject Matter Experts.