soc lead.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Detect incidents through proactive “hunting” across security-relevant datasets. 

•Thoroughly document incident response analysis activities

•Review investigations conducted by more junior analysts to ensure quality standards are met.

•Develop new, repeatable methods for finding malicious activity across the networks.

•Provide recommendations to enhance detection and protection capabilities.

•Regularly present technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences

•Develop and follow detailed operational processes and procedures to appropriately analyse, escalate, and assist in the remediation of information security incidents.

•Prioritize multiple high-priority tasks and formulate responses/recommendations to customers and team members in a fast-paced environment.

•Provide assistance to other security teams.

•Continually develop new technical skills and push overall team capabilities forward.

•Engage with and mentor other team members.

•Work with other teams on major engineering and architecture initiatives.

•Be innovative with their understanding of attack methodologies, malware analysis, malicious toolkits, and how those may manifest within various security technologies.

•Advanced proactive threat hunting

•Understands advanced adversary emulation concepts.

•Advanced use case design for insider threat, operational, threat detection and response

•Review of defensive and detective controls to reduce client attack surface.

•Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years operational experience assessing, reviewing, and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities, CVEs, and risks.
• Knowledge of third-party software vulnerabilities, security threat landscape, especially network and server threats
• Knowledge of cyber security threats and risks, vendor computing environments, basic systems, and network technologies.
• Experience with and understanding of CVE’s and CVSS scores Knowledge of compensating controls and mitigating factors.
• Knowledge of Information Security frameworks, guidelines, and standard methodologies.
• Knowledge of the Windows and / or Linux operating systems
• Knowledge and understanding of Cybersecurity controls and logging and monitoring tools.
• Ability to expertly interact with all levels of personnel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong in problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects by prioritizing and results oriented approach.
• Good teammate with flexibility required for support operations.
• Be well versed in the cyber threat landscape; have an advanced understanding and knowledge of what tactics and techniques are being used by adversaries; have an advanced understand and knowledge of what security controls and/or telemetry data is available to detect these tactics and techniques; and be familiar with cyber security incident response terminology, processes, and techniques.
• Moderate to complex investigations (multiple tools) including endpoint, UEBA, public cloud, SAAS and packet analysis.
• Security use case design recommendations for threat detection
• Threat response activities such as quarantining host and other common response playbook activities
• Proactive threat hunting using multiple client tools.
• Process development and documentation.
• Application of threat intelligence to improve detection and response capabilities.
• Extensive experience with the MITRE @ttack framework and associated tactics
• Extensive alert triage and endpoint investigations using technologies such as EDR.
• Phishing analysis
• Malware analysis (does not include reverse engineering)
• MITRE attack framework expertise and understanding of common attack tactics used by threat actors.
• Provide recommendations on tuning of security detection platforms and use cases to improve accuracy of detection.
• Principal resource should have experience in Building use cases (Content Creation) with SIEM tools (any product experience will work)
• This role demands EDR experience towards CrowdStrike, Carbon black, MS Defender, Endgame as NextGen EDR Solutions
• Strong attention to detail and meticulous reporting using Power BI or other similar software and develop IR playbooks.
• Strong knowledge of network security including Firewalls (Palo Alto preferred), intrusion detection systems, load balancers TCP/IP Protocols, network analysis, and network/security applications
• Experience coordinating with multiple teams for rapid incident response and resolution.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional demeanour
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in system administration of AD, Microsoft Azure environment, Windows servers, Unix environment.
• Scripting knowledge (PowerShell, java, Perl)
• Knowledge of databases and query language such as SQL