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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

3rd Shift - 15% Automatic Pay Differential (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Cyber Operations Senior Specialist is an advanced SOC role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) organization. The role is responsible for hunting, monitoring, triaging, and escalating security events in any technology environment.

This role will evaluate data collected from a variety of cyber operations tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs, cloud platforms, and SOAR solutions) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats in mostly unstructured and complex situations. Individuals in this role are creative, proactive, and highly skilled in log, identity, cloud, network, and root cause analysis.

The hours for this position are 3rd shift weekends: Wednesday-Saturday 10:00 PM - 8:00 AM.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time. 

1. Characterize and analyze alerts to understand potential threats.

2. Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.

3. Document and escalate incidents that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.

4. Provide daily summary reports of events and activity relevant to cyber operations.

5. Perform cyber operations trend analysis and reporting.

6. Lead team chats, calls, and face to face meetings.

7. Constantly improve SOC runbooks.

8. Recommend improvements to automations, alert fidelity, and security controls.

9. Develop queries, dashboards, and new capabilities to support faster response.

10. Provide cybersecurity recommendations to SOC management based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field of relevant education, certification, or related training.

2. Three years of experience in Cybersecurity or related work

3. Knowledge of one or more cloud platforms and cloud security

4. Knowledge of general information technology (IT) and cybersecurity

5. Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.

6. Knowledge of network traffic analysis and packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump).

7. Knowledge of operating systems, including Windows/Unix ports and services.

8. Knowledge of modern identity and access management concepts

9. Knowledge of phishing tactics and techniques

10. Knowledge of advanced cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

11. Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).

12. Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.

13. Knowledge of threat hunting techniques

14. Knowledge of countermeasures to address a variety of threat