Senior SOC Analyst – MDR

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate as a member of a Cyber Defense team that operates around the clock in rotational shifts.

• Consistently monitor and address advanced threats and changing attack vectors across various environments.

• Conduct thorough investigations and triage of security alerts to ascertain root causes, impacts, and relevance.

• Analyze alerts and telemetry from SIEM and logging sources such as EDR, IPS, Firewall, and threat intelligence platforms to pinpoint actual threats.

• Manage detections aimed at cloud infrastructure, services, and applications.

• Offer recommendations for containment, mitigation, and recovery to client or internal response teams.

• Assist in the development and refinement of detection rules, analytics, and use cases.

• Work in conjunction with Threat Intelligence, SOAR, and Engineering teams for enrichment and contextual analysis.

• Document investigations, findings, and recommendations following SOC SOPs and reporting standards.

• Act as a subject matter expert on detection and response methodologies, including SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence, log analysis, network and EDR telemetry, and other response techniques.

• Create and maintain SOPs, playbooks, runbooks, and SOC operational procedures.

• Mentor and support junior analysts while fostering continuous learning, operational excellence, quality benchmarks, and SLAs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in incident response, SOC Tier 2, or a comparable role.

• Strong comprehension of adversary tradecraft, including MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain.

• Profound understanding of cloud security principles.

• Experience with EDRs, SIEMs, SOARs, and log management pipelines.

• Solid knowledge of Windows, Linux, and cloud security.

• Familiarity with scripting languages for analysis purposes.

• Thorough understanding of network protocols, endpoint artifacts, memory, and log analysis.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking skills.

• Capability to perform under pressure during incidents with minimal supervision.

• Strong documentation and communication skills, particularly when engaging with stakeholders.

• Collaborative, yet able to maintain deep focus and contribute individually.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k), with an employer match of 100% for the first 3% contributed and 50% for the next 2% contributed.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (effective on the 1st day of the month following your first day of employment).

• Group Term Life Insurance.

• Short-Term Disability Insurance.

• Long-Term Disability Insurance.

• Voluntary Life Insurance.

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance.

• Accident Insurance.

• Critical Illness Insurance.

• Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program.

• 11 Paid Holidays each year.