SOC; Security Operations Center Senior Threat Analyst

Position: SOC (Security Operations Center) Senior Threat Analyst
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Role: SOC (Security Operations Center) Senior Threat Analyst (Nights / Weekends) ((HYBRID, see below details carefully))

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SOC (Security Operations Center) Senior Threat Analyst 1 (Nights / Weekends)

Work Location:

Onsite at 11 Metro Tech Center, 5th Floor (SOC), Brooklyn, NY 11201

Scheduled Work Hours:

Night SOC Analyst Hours:

Shift

Schedule:

Night shifts will typically occur between the hours of 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM. The night SOC analyst position will include weekend shifts. The position requires a total of 35 hours per week.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

*** Candidate must be willing to work days, nights and/or weekends depending on coverage or critical incident response needs***

• Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing 24x7x365 coverage at the City's Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift schedules including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Interface with OTI Cyber Command teams internally, with City agencies, vendors, and information-sharing partners.

• Monitor City networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise, and anomalous behavior; 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:

Minimum 8+ years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment.

• For a senior position, leadership this includes 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 :

• 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.