Cyber Security Analyst

• Provide investigation for escalated security incidents. • Check for false positive & duplicates. • Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the CSIRT guidelines. • Communicates directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents. • Hunting for suspicious anomalous activity based on data alerts or data outputs from various toolsets. • Perform analysis of log files to collect more contextual information in order to triage the security threat. • Provide forensics analysis and investigation. • Drives containment strategy during data loss or breach events. • Triage and resolve advanced vector attacks such as botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs). • Works directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents. • Provide tuning recommendations to administrators based on findings during investigations or threat information reviews. • Collect contextual information and pursue technical root cause analysis and attack method analysis. • Make content determination to treat the alert as a security incident and assign a severity level. Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field. Fluent in English language. The candidate must have extensive experience in incident handling and reporting (at least 3 years in a similar role). Professional certifications related to incident response is preferable. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Knowledge of network security zones, Firewall configurations, IDS policies. Knowledge of systems communications from Layer 1 to 7. Experience with Systems Administration, Middleware, and Application Administration. Experience with Network and Network Security tools administration. In-depth experience with log search tools and usage of regular expressions. In-depth knowledge of packet capture and analysis. Experience with Security Assessment tools (NMAP, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat). Ability to create a containment strategy and execute it.