The role
Harrington Starr are seeking a Cyber Threat Operations and Defence Specialist for a tier one bank in their Houston hub, which will form part of a wider global team. The role is based in Houston with a hybrid model on offer
This role will suit a pro-active blue teamer who will work on incident management/ investigations, threat hunting along with elements of Security Engineering. It will also suit a technically ambitious individual who enjoys challenging themselves and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to part of a highly talented with a huge investment in to cyber both from a resource and tooling perspective.
Key tasks will include:
- Incident triage – including high priority and complex investigations.
- Threat hunting and proactively seeking out suspicious activities and threats.
- Analysis of attacks and trends.
- Presenting detailed analysis of attacks to stakeholders.
- Threat detection including SIEM use detection cases, and analysing data from the SIEM.
- Utilising all amiable tooling
- Staying abreast of new attacker techniques and industry trends
Key skills needed:
- A proven track record in a similar blue team\ cyber defence role
- An offensive security mindset
- Email gateway security roles
- Experience of Endpoint protection platforms
- Experience of working with and ideally some experience of fine tuning a SIEM solution
- Experiencer of identity and access management and cloud security architectures highly desirable
- Any industry certs – CISSP, OSCP, SANS desirable
