SOC ANALYST TIER 2/3 (Contractor)

SOC 2/3 Engineer (Remote Contractor):

General Duties -

Responsible for investigating security incidents and determining their root causes. They review incidents that have been escalated by Tier 1 analysts, who are responsible for collecting data and reviewing alerts. Tier 2/3 analysts use threat intelligence, such as indicators of compromise, TTPs, and company host system/network data sets to assess the alerts, threats and potential incidents in more depth.

General Skills -

They have deep experience with SIEM tools specifically Crowdstrike SIEM, network data, host data, Identity and Access log data, developing SIEM use cases, reducing/tuning false alerts and leading investigations until issues have been resolved. They will also monitor systems and events across different operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Specific Requirements -

• Must have 5+ years recent experience as Tier 2 or 3 analyst at a large organization; government and Critical Infrastructure company preferred.
  

• Must have strong, demonstrated SIEM and data correlation experience
  

• Must have demonstrated experience designing new SOC use cases and working with vendor on implementing new use cases.
  

• Must have experience designing and implementing runbooks and use cases to mitigate security incidents
  

• Experience designing Incident Response plan, including alert definition, runbooks, escalation, etc..
  

• Experience documenting incident response communications for technical and management audiences
  

• Must have extensive experience reviewing and managing alerts in Microsoft Defender, Splunk
  

• Must have experience conducting hunts across disparate data sets, to include host data, vulnerability data, threat data, network data, active directory data, among others to identify threats
  

• Experience leading timely security operations response efforts in collaboration with stakeholders
  

• Must have experience setting up alert rules and effective alert management
  

• Demonstrated ability to create runbooks and conducting investigations with key application, IT Infra and other stakeholders
  

• Experience designing custom SOC SIEM use cases in Defender, Splunk and CRWD
  

• Experience conducting forensic work investigations
  

• Strong security operations documentation abilities
  

Attributes sought -

• Must be proactive, problem solver and curious.
  

• Most be a problem solver
  

• Must be curious
  

• Must be analytical, qualitative and quantitative abilities
  

• Must be adaptive to dynamic environment
  

**MST or PST shift times**