Sr. Security Operations Analyst - DLP Required - NESCO Resource : Job Details

Our client, a major leader in the software automotive industry, is looking for a Sr. Security Operations Analyst for a long term contract.

If you are interested, please send your updated resume to [email protected]

Job Description:

The Sr. Security Operations Analyst is responsible for security monitoring and incident response for internal and external threats. The Sr. Security Operations Analyst performs advanced threat analysis, collaborates with internal IT teams and MSSP for security monitoring response, improves correlation and monitoring of security events, and leads security monitoring projects.

Job Responsibilities:

Security Monitoring

Conducts investigations and responds to internal and external security threats.

Oversees, responds to, and remediates DLP (data loss prevention) and SIEM events from on premise and cloud systems.

Implements advanced security monitoring techniques to identify malicious behavior on SaaS, cloud systems, network, servers, and endpoints.

Manages, administrates, and improves security monitoring products for DLP, SIEM, EDR, AV, Cloud Security products, IDS and other industry standard security technologies.

Develops automation response scripts to remediate commodity threats.

Performs threat hunting activities to identify compromised resources.

Understands and performs threat analysis utilizing industry standard frameworks (kill chain and diamond model).

Performs threat research and intelligence gathering to improve detection and response capabilities.

Proposes and helps review security plans and policies to improve the security environment.

Maintains operational playbooks, process diagrams and documentation for security monitoring and response.

Reviews proposed Security deployments to ensure security monitoring requirements are met.

Other duties may be assigned as needed to address new security threats facing the enterprise environment.

Incident Response

Works closely with MSSP services, external forensic providers, and in house IT teams to respond to and remediate security incidents both internal and external.

Reviews compromised systems to identify root cause of security incidents and remediation actions that need to be taken.

Researches new TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures) that threat actors are utilizing to undermine enterprise IT environments.

Provide timely detection, identification, and alerts of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities, and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.

Correlate incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable swift remediation.

Plans, implements, and documents incident handling and response tasks and procedures.

Emerging Threats Monitoring

Obtains information and stays up-to-date on the latest threats and security trends in a fast and efficient way to keep the enterprise environment protected.