Security Operations Center Analyst

SOC (Security Operations Center) Analyst – Onsite

We have an immediate need for a Security Operations Center Analyst to join a leading international tax specialty services provider. The Security Operations Center Analyst will be responsible for day-to-day security monitoring of both the corporate and customer networks. This individual will review, escalate, or receive escalated security alerts from other SOC staff or customers, perform the triage analysis necessary to identify if the alert is a false positive and determine whether or not the related event(s) represent a security incident.

Location: Houston, Texas (Onsite)

This Job Pays: $120,000 – 175,000 annually

What You Will Do:

• Manage and administer a SIEM, develop reports and other capabilities to support the needs of our clients
• Conduct trending analysis of security alerts and events to identify patterns indicative of new unauthorized activity
• Make recommendations on new threat feeds and tools to help evolve automated threat detection capabilities as well as aid in computer forensic and historical investigations
• Identify data sources and analytics for inclusion into SIEM
• Develop new signatures and correlated searches based on a variety of requirements
• Identify log and event sources including Active Directory event logs, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, PCAP/Flow data, DNS, audit and authentication logs, VPN, IDS, and other sensor field tools and technologies
• Operational security monitoring to include: review security alerts, conduct triage analysis of related security events, make true/false positive decisions, make escalation decisions (to senior analysts or to the Incident Response process), and make initial severity determinations

What Gets You The Job:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Information Security / Cybersecurity , preferably as a SOC Analyst
• Experience analyzing Firewall, IDS, IPS, DNS, DHCP, Web Proxy, Anti-Virus and SMTP data for security-related concerns and events
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Ability to review captured network traffic, and compare against the contents of a security alert to verify the nature of the detection
• Knowledge of security monitoring technologies and cored security principles
• One or more relevant Cyber Security certifications
• Direct experience with any SIEM or log aggregation system

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