Associate Security Analyst

About Liferay 

 

Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges.  Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.

But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!

About You and this Role

You’re excited about the chance to help with daily Security Operations of the Information Security team. You know security is a never ending stream of new tactics, techniques, and strategies of attackers and you thrive to learn and improve systems to detect, monitor, and alert all those around when you find attackers. You seek to protect others and have a kind word for their failures.

In this role you will be the active protection against hackers, work closely in Liferay’s SOC team to prevent and act on security events that can impact Liferay and its ecosystem. You will be part of a global Information Security team that is responsible for security of Liferay ecosystem, starting from open-source codebases, through Liferay employees security to Liferay customers.

In this role your new best friend will be a SIEM, you will be a master of WAF rules, learn how to identify a phishing email and use an industry leader workload protection solution to guard Liferay’s employees and assets.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Work as a part of the SOC team to react to daily security alerts and analyze them to identify possible security incidents and breaches.
• Provide incident response support, including mitigating actions to contain activity and facilitating forensics analysis when necessary. 
• Assist in threat hunting searches across a variety of technologies.
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain security documentation.
• Learn and maintain Liferay security systems to fully understand possibilities of the tools and improve detection and prevention mechanisms.
  
  
  
  

Key Objectives

• Within 30 days finish basic security training and knowledge transfer from the Information Security team members.
• Within 60 days learn how to triage alerts in selected security systems.
• Within 90 days be responsible for timely triage of security events from selected security systems
  
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of security & networking technologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in English 
• Ability to cope and work under pressure
• Innovative, flexible and open approach
• A results oriented individual who thrives working in a fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with the Incident Response procedures and implementations.
• Solid knowledge of SIEM, alerts, antivirus, firewalls and similar technologies.
• Solid knowledge of Google Cloud Platform.
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems and scripting.
• Beginner knowledge of software development and information technology operations (DevOps)
• Exceptional attention to detail and organization.
• Able to work independently and effectively as part of a team, while handling multiple tasks and responsibilities.

 

What We Offer

• Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience
• Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
• A positive and collaborative work culture
• Check out what employees say about us on Glassdoor 
• Working at a leading open-source company

Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement

Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.