Title: Senior Threat Analyst
Client: NYC Agency
Location: Brooklyn, NY (Onsite)
Duration: 24 Months
Work Hours: 35hrs Week
Note: Candidate must be willing to work nights and/or weekends depending on coverage or critical incident response needs.
Shift Schedule: Night shifts will typically occur between the hours of 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM.
Job Description:
- Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing 24x7x365 coverage at the Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift schedules including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Interface with Cyber Command teams internally, with agencies, vendors, and information-sharing partners.
- Monitor networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise, and anomalous behaviour; apply mitigation techniques or escalation factors; correlate threat intelligence across various logs collected by established security controls.
- Produce routine SOC metrics & reporting.
- Maintain situation reports (SITREPS)
- Perform weekly quality control checks.
- Works closely with SOC Director on incident preparation including the continuous development of new SOC playbooks and runbooks.
Mandatory Skills:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment.
- For this senior position, leadership skills are a must, including the ability to lead and mentor junior analysts, coordinate team activities, and manage SOC operations effectively.
- Prior experience working in a SOC environment is mandatory. This includes familiarity with SOC operations, procedures, and tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and procedures
- Strong understanding of network and host technologies
- Experience applying techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusion using IDS methods and technologies.
- Experience with SIEM technologies, malware analysis and mitigation techniques
- Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)
- Interpret information collected by diagnostic network tools (NetFlow, security event logs, IDS systems, etc.)
- Ability to investigate and solve complex problems.
- Excellent communication skills are crucial for effectively communicating security incidents, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including SOC Director and senior management.
- Threat Hunting: Proactive threat hunting capabilities to identify and investigate potential security threats or anomalies within the environment before they escalate into incidents.
- Incident Response: Experience in incident response procedures and methodologies, including the ability to analyze security incidents, contain threats, mitigate risks, and recover from security breaches effectively and efficiently.
