Security Operation Analyst

Job Description:

• Location: Fully remote, Central Europe Time Zone
• Start date: To be defined
• Languages: English is mandatory

Duties and Responsibilities:

• In close collaboration, build, adjust and implement analytics and detection rules for SIEM, EDR and AV
• Under guidance, participate in cybersecurity architecture review of new or existing technical solutions and provide recommendations for improvement
• Contribute to the preparation of KPIs for cybersecurity operations capabilities
• Monitor and investigate alerts leveraging Microsoft Security Tools (e.g. M365, Cloud App Security, Azure, Defender for Endpoint, Azure Security, Azure Sentinel and XDR)
• Monitor and triage AWS security events and detections
• Monitor and investigate alerts leveraging EDR solutions
• Work with alerts from the CSOC Analysts, to perform in depth analysis and triage of network security threat activity based on computer and media events, malicious code analysis, and protocol analysis
• Review trouble tickets generated by CSOC Analyst(s)
• Identify incident root cause and take proactive mitigation steps
• Assist with incident response efforts
• Work directly with cyber threat intelligence analysts to convert intelligence into useful detection rules
• Collaborate with incident response team to rapidly build detection rules and signatures as needed, as well as maintaining and improving existing detection rules
• Perform lessons learned activities
• Leverage emerging threat intelligence (IOCs, updated rules, etc.) to identify affected systems and the scope of the attack.
• Review and collect asset data (configs, running processes, etc.) on these systems for further investigation.
• Use strong TCP/IP networking skills to perform network analysis to isolate and diagnose
• Document actions in cases to effectively communicate information internally and to client
• Determine and direct remediation and recovery efforts
• Provide other ad hoc support as required

What we are looking for:

The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:

• Knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocols
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Security Tools (e.g. M365, Cloud App Security, Azure, Defender for Endpoints, Azure Security, Azure Sentinel and XDR)
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS and GCP)
• Deep knowledge of SIEM tools like Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight, MS Sentinel, ELK Stack
• Knowledge of at least one EDR solution (MS Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike)
• Knowledge of email security, network monitoring, and incident response
• Knowledge of Linux/Mac/Windows
• +5 years of relevant experience in information technology field, including triage of alerts and supporting security incident
• Proven experience in reviewing raw log files, data correlation, and analysis (i.e. firewall, network flow, IDS, system logs)
• Proven experience on administering a SIEM platform, preferable either Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
• Expert knowledge of English

The resource SHOULD have the following skills and experience:

• Proven knowledge of monitoring AWS environment (Iaas, Saas, Paas)

  Knowledge of at least one general-purpose or shell scripting language (e.g. Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.)

Required Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills

• Customer facing experience and oral communication skills

• Ability to write documentation & reports

• Creativity/ ability to find innovative solutions

• Willingness to learn on the job

• Conflict management & cooperation

Desirable certifications:

• Technical certifications: MCSE, CCNA, Microsoft Azure (e.g., SC-200), GCIH, CEH, GCFA or any GIAC/similar certification