Senior Security Analyst

Job Description

As a Senior Security Analyst, you will be responsible for security event analysis, incident response, and related activities.

You will be tasked to perform monitoring of SIEM and security technologies to support a highly dynamic Global Security monitoring operation across the organization, interfacing with different teams including global forensics, incident response, and threat analysis. You will also be required to participate in the creation of policies, processes, procedures, documentation, and assigned project tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Perform security monitoring and incident response activities across the Group's global networks, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques
• Detect incidents through proactive "hunting" across security-relevant data sets
• Thoroughly document incident response analysis activities
• Develop new, repeatable methods for finding malicious activity across the Group's global networks
• Provide recommendations to enhance detection and protection capabilities
• Regularly present technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
• Write high-quality incident reports for executives
• Develop and follow detailed operational processes and procedure s to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in the remediation of information security incidents
• Prioritize multiple high-priority tasks and formulate responses/re commendations to customers and team members in a fast-paced environment
• Continually develop new technical skills and push overall team capabilities s forward
• Engage with and mentor other team members
• Perform other duties, as assigned

Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity or related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Information Technology and 3 years in Information Security
• Hands-on experience in a Security Operations Center environment conducting network, host, or threat analysis
• Experience analyzing raw log files, particularly logs from network or host-based security tools
• Experience analyzing packet captures
• Deep understanding of network defense principles, common attack vectors, and attacker techniques
• Advanced technical skills and the ability to develop a mastery of network and host security technologies
• Comfort with using the Linux command line
• Experience with at least 2 programming or scripting languages
• Experience with the following technologies or concepts:
  • SIEM or other security/log management platforms
  • Basic host-based forensics analysis
  • Basic static and dynamic malware analysis
  • Email analysis
  • Regular expressions

If you are interested in this position, please click "Apply Now" and we will review your qualifications & reach out to you for further discussion & next steps.
Only shortlisted candidates will be responded to, therefore if you do not receive a response within 14 days please accept this as notification that you have not been shortlisted.
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