Security Analyst

Job Summary:

Calling all cyber heroes dedicated to thwarting bad actors, hackers, bots, and other shadowy forces out to wreak havoc on the good guys. We are actively seeking Security Analysts to bring their impressive experience to our league of extraordinary Threat Security Experts. You'll be on the frontlines of the daily battle to protect our customers IT environments and critical business data. You'll use your superior skills and knowledge of our extensive proprietary toolset to monitor our customers' environments, triage, and respond to security incidents. You will be a virtual shield - protecting our customers on a global scale and providing unrivaled security guidance on existing and emerging cyber security threats. Your hyper-focus will be keenly set on Customer Obsessed. You will be relentless in your pursuit of value creation for the customer, tuning and optimizing our incident output in alignment with their environment and application stack. If you just said to yourself, "That's me!" then read on

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of Alert Logic products and services and effectively utilize this to provide world-class customer experience and security outcomes for our customers.
• Protect customers on a global scale and provide security guidance on existing and emerging cyber security threats.
• Analyze, escalate, and respond to security events, observables and incidents detected by Alert Logic propriety security products.
• Threat hunt across thousands of customer environments, identifying threats and observables and contribute to content management and threat intelligence activities.
• Conduct incident response activities, supporting customers through containment, eradication, and recovery
• Tune Alert Logic propriety security products in line with customer specific environments in order to maximize detection coverage and minimize noise.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with a global team and across multiple departments to identify improvements to the customer experience and to maximize operational efficiencies.
• Represent customer and team interests in product, engineering, and security content discussions.
• Produce Knowledge Base Articles for best practices in your team's specific area of expertise as they pertain to the use of Alert Logic solutions.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 0 - 1 years of experience as a security analyst with full remediation and incident response experience
• Basic understanding of cloud environments & infrastructure (preferably AWS)
• Experience with SOAR tools (Security Orchestration and Automation, Security Incident Response Platforms (such as TheHive), Threat Intelligence Platforms)
• Basic experience using an IDS eg., Snort or Kibana
• Basic command of Linux systems administration and working with BASH
• Hands on experience configuring Windows or Linux system logging
• Basic understanding of networking including TCP/IP
• Basic experience with network monitoring and packet analysis tools
• Basic understanding of HTTP, SSL/TLS, SOAP, and reverse proxies
• Basic understanding of the OWASP Top 10
• Basic knowledge of threat vectors against the Windows or Linux platform
• Basic experience with anomaly detection based on security systems