Jr. SOC Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

RKON Security Operations Center
- Security Analyst Job Description Role and Responsibilities

About us: RKONis an ISO
27001 and AICPA SOC 2 Type II certified company that specializes in providing IT migration and transformation services for the Mergers and Acquisitions market. RKON was recently recognized as one of the 100 best places to work in IT, highlighting our competitive advantage of empowering thought leaders and providing cutting-edge solutions for the fast-paced industry of Private Equity.

RKON is looking for ambitious professionals to join our award-winning team. We have a proven track record for finding and developing top talent with people that believe they can achieve something greater. We also pride ourselves on fostering an environment where initiative, creative thinking, and collaboration are encouraged and rewarded—a key reason for the extraordinary level of service we deliver to our customers.

Join the team responsible for securing RKON’s Microsoft Gold Partnership status and helping RKON attain a spot in the Top 100 Microsoft Partners.

About the position: RKON is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to work on the client-facing Security Operations Center (SOC) - Assurance and Response Team. This position requires a motivated fast learner, who is able to work within key vulnerability and security information event management functions to identify, analyze, and remediate potential threats to the environment. The candidate will require security industry knowledge that evolves with current and emerging vulnerabilities and threats, as well as an ongoing understanding of key business and technological processes.

This position will report to the SOC Lead Security Analyst.

In this role you will perform key client-facing managed security services activities including identification of assets, scanning for infrastructure and application vulnerabilities, security penetration testing, and security monitoring. In addition, you will perform investigations and perform analyses of events in order to thwart internal and external threats to the environment. You will collaborate on an ongoing basis with clients’ key contacts and stakeholders to support detection, triage, incident analysis, containment, remediation and reporting of vulnerabilities, events, and escalated incidents while coordinating business priorities, emerging and actual threats and best practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the clients information assets.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in establishing a mature and optimized Security Operations Center discipline to support managed security services focused on client-facing vulnerability and security information event management engagements.
• Identify and remediate infrastructure and application vulnerabilities identified in continuous scanning and regular penetration testing exercises and assist with risk prioritization.
• Analyze and respond to security threats from Firewall (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Antivirus (AV), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Network Detection and Response (NDR), Email Security, Cloud Security, and other security threat data sources.
• Respond to clients in a timely manner (within documented SLA) with thorough and concise analysis and recommended actions.
• Document actions in cases to effectively communicate information to internal and external stakeholders as well has for historical retrieval.
• Adhere to RKON company and client policies, procedures, and security practices.
• Resolve problems independently and understand escalation procedures.
• Conduct scanning and monitoring activities to provide in depth visibility into potential known and unknown vulnerabilities and threats that may pose risk to the RKON and client environments.
• Participate in security incidents and act as the technical Subject Matter Expert during significant security incidents.
• Utilize analytics to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats to the environment.
• Detect, respond, mitigate, and report on cyber threats/incidents that may impact the environment.
• Collaborate…