Senior Cyber Operations Strategy and Policy Subject Matter Expert
Hoplite Group
Cyber Security
Senior Security Ops Analyst – Incident Response
TAXWELL
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudEC2KubernetesPythonVMware
About the role
- Receive incident escalations from monitoring team and assist with real-time advanced analysis, response, and reporting
- Mentor and assist in training analysts to aid in their skills development and analytical capabilities
- Proactively hunt for threats and enacting identification, containment, and eradication measures while supporting recovery efforts
- Point person for coordination with appropriate parties during a security incident – client, management, legal, security, operations, etc
- Create thorough reports and documentation of all incidents and procedures, presenting findings to team and leadership on a routine basis
- Supports detection capabilities and refines process through alert validation
- Performs threat hunting and proactive incident response
- Completes follow-through to ensure quality forensic materials are captured, preserved and documented along with details and timelines of events and recommendations to avoid future occurrences
- Assist in the general maintenance and improvement of processes and/or playbooks
- Conduct research regarding the latest methods, tools, and trends in digital forensics analysis
- Conduct analysis using logs, previous alerts, etc. to identify trends to identify and prevent potential incidents
- Ingest data from multiple sources and aggregate client metrics
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of CISSP certification and prior experience
- Five or more years of experience in information systems security
- Good communication skills to interact with clients, team members, management, and support personnel
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, be highly self-motivated
- Experience with cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services; Container services and Kubernetes; Azure Monitor and/or Sentinel
- Experience with AD and Entra ID; Mimecast and Microsoft Purview; Microsoft OpenAI Services; AWS technologies such as EC2, ECS, Lambdas, LightSail, and VMware Cloud
- Ability to script in PowerShell, Python
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
incident responsethreat huntingdigital forensics analysisdata aggregationscripting in PowerShellscripting in Pythonalert validationforensic documentationanalytical capabilitiesproblem-solving
Soft skills
communication skillsmentoringteam collaborationself-motivationanalytical thinking
Certifications
CISSP
