Blackpoint Cyber

Senior MDR Analyst – Weekend Shift

Blackpoint Cyber

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $115,000 - $125,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24×7 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment via conducting lead-less threat hunting
  • Collaborate with MDR Analysts to research and investigate emerging cyber security threats; become an escalation point of contact for advanced intrusion analysis.
  • Develop Incident analysis reports and work across business units and customers to bring issues to a close
  • Help design and build automation to reduce operational tasks of SOC processes
  • Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis based on security events for many independent customer environments
  • Build test lab environments to research emerging techniques and make contributions to the internal and external knowledge development of threat operations.
  • Review sandbox technologies for additional IOCs uncovered from artifacts uncovered during analysis.

Requirements

  • Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role. Progressive relevant training and/or certification may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement
  • Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Hunting, or Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), preferred
  • Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process
  • Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.)
  • Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX;
  • Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching) Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go
  • Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365
  • Ability to work shifts if required (night, weekends, and day)
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
  • Excellent communication skills to effectively summarize and present findings.
Benefits
  • Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans
  • 401k plan
  • Discretionary Time Off
  • Other minor perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
threat huntingincident analysisendpoint triagingmalware analysisforensic artifactsWindows environment assessmentscriptingprogrammingautomationvulnerability analysis
Soft Skills
problem solvingcritical thinkinganalytical skillscommunication skills