Cyber Security Consultant Jobs

Overview

Valence Consulting is partnering with a renowned client in the Financial Services industry to fill a crucial role in their Information Technology team. Our client is in search of a mid-senior level professional to take on the role of a Cyber Blue Team Technical Lead. This position is critical for detecting, analyzing, and responding to cyber security events within the organization.

** This post is for a 12-Month W2 Contract with the potential to convert to full-time ** The position is Hybrid with 3 days on-site **

Required Skills

• Subject matter expertise in a particular technology or security domain as well as hands-on experience and knowledge of modern security tools and DFIR best practices.
• Demonstrated tactical leadership of teams to accomplish technical tasks and projects.
• Demonstrated ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in detecting, analyzing, and responding to cyber security events (Network events, OS Log events, and forensic information).
• At least three (3) years of previous experience as a SOC analyst or similar role.
• Previous experience successfully leading technical projects and complex incidents requiring collaboration with multiple people.
• Demonstrated ability to research and mentor team members on interpreting OS log files, network logs, flow data, and other security data.

The successful candidate will report to a Cyber Blue Team Manager and will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with stakeholders from other business units to conduct investigations, review plans and procedures, and respond to cyber incidents.
• Collaborating with the Cyber Purple Team to implement content and tune security platforms.
• Independently leading technical programs and large projects.
• Leading and coordinating major investigations and incident response activities.
• Occasionally traveling to conferences, training, and other Client offices (up to 10%).
• Participating in on-call rotation and occasional after-hours work.
• Acting as Incident Commander for serious (P2-P4) incidents.
• Acting as an escalation point for junior team members.
• Creating messaging, socializing your program, and evangelizing security at Client.
• Monitoring, detecting, analyzing, researching, and responding to cyber security events including Network events, OS Log events, and forensic information.
• Training and mentoring junior staff members.
• Working with management and QA/QC lead to improve the overall performance of the team.
• Performing eDiscovery and other technical tasks.
• Participating in training, exercises, and process improvement programs.

Other Qualifications

• A strong desire to achieve and contribute to a high-performing team.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to take minimal high-level requirements and independently produce and execute an action plan to accomplish tasks.
• Ability to produce written reports including detailed analysis and recommendations.