SOC L2 Incident Response Specialist

• Role Overview 
  We are looking for a SOC L2 Incident Response Specialist to support cyber defense operations by investigating security incidents, responding to threats, and improving detection and response capabilities across enterprise environments. 

   

  Key Responsibilities

• Investigate and analyze escalated security alerts and incidents from SOC L1.
• Perform incident response, containment, and remediation activities, including endpoint isolation, account suspension, malicious process termination, IOC-based threat hunting, and blocking malicious IPs, domains, or URLs.
• Analyze events across SIEM, EDR/XDR, network, cloud, identity, and endpoint security platforms.
• Conduct threat hunting and use threat intelligence to identify potential risks and suspicious behaviors.
• Manage incidents throughout the lifecycle and maintain accurate investigation documentation in ticketing systems.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, and business teams during incident handling.
• Support continuous improvement of SIEM use cases, response playbooks, and SOC processes

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in SOC Operations, Incident Response, Cyber Defense, or Security Monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, or ArcSight.
• Experience with EDR/XDR solutions such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Carbon Black.
• Strong understanding of incident response lifecycle, threat detection and analysis, network security, endpoint security, identity security, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, IOC/IOA analysis, and common malware investigation techniques.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English; Mandarin Chinese is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with threat hunting, threat intelligence analysis, or security automation/SOAR tools.
• Exposure to cloud security environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience working with global or multinational security operations teams.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft SC-200, GCIH, GCIA, CISSP, Security+, or Splunk Security certifications.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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