Tier 2 Security Operations Analyst (VAN or SEA)

Insight Global; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A cybersecurity services provider seeks a Cyber Security Analyst to perform Security Operations Center duties in Vancouver. Responsibilities include incident response, malware analysis, and monitoring alerts. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 2-4 years of experience in security operations with strong knowledge of security tools and protocols.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years experience in Security Operations or Incident Response.
• Strong concepts of threat categories including malware and phishing.
• Good knowledge of networking protocols such as SMTP and HTTP.

Responsibilities

• Triages alerts and performs deep analysis to identify threat actors.
• Prioritizes incidents and escalates to Tier 3 when necessary.
• Analyzes logs and network traffic to identify incidents.

Skills

Incident Response

Malware Analysis

Network Traffic Analysis

Automation Processes

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related degree

Tools

M365 Security tools

SIEM (Sentinel preferred)

EDR

Job description

Overview

The Cyber Security Analyst will help the team to perform Security Operations Center (SOC) duties, which include incident response, malware analysis, and monitoring. This role will work with the team to implement processes and practices designed to protect networks, devices, and data from malicious attack, damage, or unauthorized access.

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Responsibilities

• Triages alerts/incidents and performs deep analysis; correlates with threat intelligence tools, tactics and procedures (TTP) in indicators of compromise (IOCs) to identify the threat actor, nature of the attack, and systems or data affected.
• Prioritizes and triages alerts or issues to determine whether a real security incident is taking place and escalate incidents to Tier 3 if remediation cannot be closed within SLA time.
• Performs analysis, triage and remediation of low/medium priority alerts.
• Analyzing logs, network traffic, and other data sources to identify the source of incidents.
• Record identified vulnerabilities, create remediation tickets and track their status.
• Build internal scripts, tools, and automation processes to enhance detection and response capabilities.
• Adjusting security tools and processes, e.g. EDR alerting modifications, updating detection rules conditions, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in: Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related degree.
• 2-4 year experience in one or more areas: Security Operations, Incident Response
• Strong security concepts of threat categories (such as malware, phishing attacks, Defense-in-Depth, MITRE ATT&CK framework, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of M365 Security tools
• Azure and/or AWS
• Working experiences to security tools such as SIEM (Sentinel preferred) EDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, anti-spam, content management, server and network device hardening, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux and/or Mac OS and comfortable with looking at, understanding, and investigating Security Event logs.
• Good knowledge of networking protocols (SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, etc).
• Experiences of any query language and scripting language
• Experience in using security orchestration, automation, and response tools
• Experience with query languages and scripting languages