Contract role - daily rates
The Senior SOC Analyst will join an advanced global team responsible for the detection and response to the most sophisticated cyber threats and attacks, as part of a Global IT Security Operations Centre.
Multinational Organisation providing services across the global for its internal Operations.
The Senior SOC Analyst will leverage a variety of tools and resources to proactively detect, investigate, and mitigate emerging and persistent threats impacting the organisations' networks, IT systems and applications.
Core responsibilities:
You will be tasked with performing host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response;
Coordinating investigation, containment and other response activities with business stakeholders and engineering groups;
Mentoring junior staff and acting as a point of escalation for higher severity incidents.
Key Elements of this role will cover the following:
* Forensics and Incident response
Serve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and TTPs
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* Perform forensic collection and analysis of electronic assets, devices and log sources
* Manage incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
* Threat Hunting:
Identify, collect, and analyse threat intelligence from internal and external sources and teams Develop / analyze techniques and execute hunts to identify threats across the environment Interface with security teams and business stakeholders to implement countermeasures and improve defenses
* Big Data analysis and reporting:
* Utilising SIEM/Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
* Research, develop, and enhance content within SIEM and other tools
* Technologies and Automation:
* Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
* Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
Experience & Skillset required:
* 5+ years of experience in IT Security / Incident Response / Computer Forensics / Threat Hunting, preferably within a multinational SOC environment
* Host and network based forensic collection and analysis
* Dynamic malware analysis, reverse engineering, and/or scripting abilities
* Proficient with Encase, Responder, X-Ways, Volatility, FTK, Axiom, Splunk, Wireshark, and other forensic tools
* Understanding of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and associated tactics
* Very Strong communication skills
* IT Security Certification such as CISSP, etc.
Contract rate: Daily rate - DOE
Contract duration: 6 months, extendable
Please note that EU/EEA nationals or existing Irish work visa holders only need apply.
Other Key Terms: Computer Security, Network Security, Applications Security, IT Security Analyst, IT Security Specialist, IT Systems security, SIEM, Security Information & Event Management, Real time Threat analysis, Penn testing, Penetrative attacks, malware, spyware, computer viruses, CISSP, Computer Information Systems Security Specialist / Professional, IT Security Contractor, Computer Security Contractor, Certified
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