
Senior Analyst - SOC
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform cybersecurity threat detection, assessment, and mitigation efforts.
- Support inquiries from compliance teams such as IT risk management and internal and external audit, to ensure documentation is complete and in compliance with information security policies.
- Identify, evaluate, and monitor continually threats that could affect operational and business activities.
- Support development of security operations playbooks to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats.
- Create, Enhance and manage security use cases, dashboards and alerts using Splunk
- Research and look for opportunities to adopt the best practices and industry standards to enhance the SIEM and SOAR platforms.
- Provide guidance to junior team members.
- Bachelors degree Computer Sciences, or equivalent prior work experience in a related field
- Experience working in global, complex, matrix-managed organization
- Network-Based Security Controls (Firewall, IPS, WAF, MDS, Proxy, VPN)
- Anomaly Detection and Investigation
- Host and Network Forensics
- Operating Systems
- Web Applications and Traffic
- Experienced with EnCase, FTK, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, WireShark, TCPDump, and open-source forensic tools
- Experience responding to cyber events in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
- Experience creating trending, metrics, and management reports
- Security experience in all phases of product and service development lifecycle including architecture, design, development, testing, release, and operational maintenance.
- Experience with cloud computing security, network, operating system, database, application, and mobile device security.
- Extensive knowledge of vulnerability management and remediation.
- Experience with information security risk management, including conducting information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments.
- Experience in two or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response and Forensics.
- Knowledge of models/frameworks such as Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK
- Strong time management skills to balance multiple activities and lead junior analysts as needed.
- Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
- Understanding of offensive security to include common attack methods.
- Understanding of how to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts for a single security event.
- A diverse skill base in both product security and information security including organizational structure and administration practices, system development and maintenance procedures, system software and hardware security controls, access controls, computer operations, physical and environmental controls, and backup and recovery procedures.
- Detailed knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, FedRAMP, STAR, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response and Forensics
- Understanding of enterprise detection technologies and processes (advanced threat detection tools, intrusion detection system/intrusion prevention system (IDS/IPS), network packet analysis, endpoint protection, Anti malware/anti-virus).
- Understanding of network protocols and operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, databases)
- Knowledge of Splunk, Phantom, Python, CrowdStrike, Tanium, Defender, Azure, AWS and forensic security tools is preferred.
- Experience working within the Financial Services Industry preferred.
- Experience in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response and Forensics preferred.
- One to three years of experience in Splunk, Splunk Enterprise Security or Splunk Phantom is preferred
- Knowledge of scripting languages like Python is preferred.
- Knowledge in RegEx is preferred
- Strong analytical skills (i.e., technical and non-technical problem-solving skills).
- Maintain certifications in an information security related field. The following are recommended: CySA+, CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GCIA, CISM, EnCE, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or GSEC and/or Splunk Certifications.