SOC Specialist (L1/L2 - Secret Cleared)

Accenture PLC; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 69,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Ottawa is seeking an SOC Specialist (L1/L2) with secret clearance to monitor and respond to security events. You will analyze incidents, provide remediation guidance, and support SIEM deployments while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires in-person presence in Ottawa most days and participation in a 24/7 shift rotation. Strong communication, leadership and security operations experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of SIEM experience and Elastic Security familiarity.
• Active Level II Secret clearance for Canadian federal government.
• Experience deploying, configuring and creating content for SIEM.
• 2+ years in security tools administration (firewalls, IDS, endpoint protection, content filtering, IAM, DLP).
• 2+ years in security operations capabilities (incident response, security infra management or monitoring).
• Proven ability to work in a team and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and support: monitor and investigate security incidents as part of a combined L1-2 team.
• Perform detailed analysis, triage and escalation of detected events.
• Provide remediation recommendations.
• Provide incident response support to downstream teams applying fixes.
• Support use case enhancements and log source integration activities.
• Monitor SIEM health and required maintenance.
• Support tuning and optimization of the SIEM.
• Define manual/automated incident management processes leveraging ticketing tool.
• Define processes to categorize, document, measure and report security incidents.
• Manage client requests submitted to the team.
• Note: this role requires in-person work in Ottawa most days and will also form part of a shift rotation for 24/7.

Skills

SIEM

Elastic Security

Security incident analysis

Active Secret clearance

Security tools administration

Security operations

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Firewalls

IDS

Endpoint protection

Content filtering

IAM

DLP

Job description

SOC Specialist (L1/L2 - Secret Cleared)

Security Managed Services Team Lead/Consultant | Mid-Level | Full time

Job No. R00363721 | Ottawa, Ontario

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients' needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are

Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients' security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and support: as part of a combined L1-2 team monitor and investigate security incidents
  • Perform detailed analysis, triage and escalation of detected events
  • Provide recommendations for remediation
  • Provide incident response support to the downstream teams applying fixes
  • Support use case enhancements and log source integration activities
  • Monitor SIEM health and required maintenance
  • Support tuning and optimization of the SIEM
  • Define manual/automated incident management process leveraging ticketing tool
  • Define processes to categorize, document, measure and report security incidents
  • Manage requests submitted by client to the team
• Note: this role requires in-person work in Ottawa most days and will also form part of a shift rotation supporting a 24/7 environment.

• 2+ years of experience working with SIEM tools for the analysis and investigation of incidents and events. Experience with Elastic Security preferred.
• In possession of active Level II Secret clearance for the Canadian federal government
• Experience performing SIEM deployment, configuration and content development preferred
• 2+ years of experience working with security tools administration (e.g. firewalls, IDS, end-point protection, content filtering, IAM, DLP)
• 2+ years of experience working with security operations capabilities (e.g. incident response, security infrastructure management or monitoring services)
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $69,450 to $119,450

Ottawa, Ontario

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