Cyber Security Analyst - 100% Remote

***This is a 4 month Contract, 100% remote, WFH opportunity but candidates must be able to work Sunday - Thursday 9:00am to 6:00pm EST***

In need of a SOC analyst with 1-2 years experience working on cyber threat, cyber mailbox monitoring, triaging and actions phishing campaigns, experience investigating malware, network intrusions, and host compromises. Looking for a candidate who needs little training and on boarding, who can hit the ground running.

Must have experience with these items:

• phishing emails
• intrusion detection
• network forensics
• network intrusions
• someone who has worked/has experience with a security operations center (SOC)
• experience with malware Certs are not required however the team finds these certs helpful: security + -network + -EH (ethical hacker), GCIA (cert intrusion analyst), GCIH (cert incident handler), any certs from the cyber security institute (SANS, etc)

Qualifications /Requirements:

• Broad knowledge of information systems and networking technologies, demonstrating understanding related to the functionality of, secure configuration of, and security logs produced by those information systems
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities to conduct cyber-related or cyber-facilitated activities
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in analyzing events, and incidents related to computer security.
• Security Operations Center experience
• Ability to provide threat determination and properly escalate concerns
• Experience investigating network and host intrusions, malware, and phishing campaigns.

Desired:

• Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Customer service experience, working with users over the phone, via email, and in person.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Splunk or other SIEM experience
• creating alerts, reports, dashboards, etc.

Responsibilities:

• The SOC Analyst, Cyber Security Response Operations will be responsible for day-to-day operations and maintenance of various security services provided to the business.
• The SOC Analyst, Cyber Security Response Operations needs to be well organized, reliable, a strong communicator, detail oriented, demonstrate good judgment, be confident working in a team or independently, and comfortable in the handling of confidential information.
• The role involves regular interaction with various groups and leadership within the organization in order to accomplish job responsibilities. Working under the direction of the Manager, Cyber Response Operations Center, the successful candidate will be responsible for participating in the following activities:
• Day-to-day operational tasks related to the ongoing support of Cyber Operations.
• Responsible for documenting the incident life cycle, conducting handoffs's, escalation, and providing support during cyber incidents
• Responsible for the tracking and assignment of tickets/events to Cyber Security Team.
• Responsible for analyzing potential threats from multiple sources.
• Responsible for creating filters, reports, dashboards, and alerts in support of Cyber Operations.
• Responsible for initiating blocks for all indicators of compromise gathered in analysis.
• Analyst must keep detailed reports on all analysis activity.
• Responsible for creating and updating existing playbooks and runbooks.

The Cyber Response Operations Analyst, must be proficient in a wide range of technologies, be knowledgeable as to industry “best practices” in day-to-day operation of a large, multinational IT organization and be able to capably communicate even subtle details of the above to Incident Response & Security Team