Senior MDR Analyst: Leadless Threat Hunting & SOC

Blackpoint Cyber; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

401k plan

Discretionary Time Off

Equity participation

Job summary

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking an experienced Senior SOC Analyst to support threat hunting and incident analysis across customer environments in a fast-paced SOC. You will collaborate with MDR Analysts, develop incident analyses, and help improve SOC processes and efficiency.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in information security, strong Windows knowledge, ELK familiarity, and hands-on scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Go.

Qualifications

• Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role.
• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process
• Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.)
• Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX;
• Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching) Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365
• Experience in developing, refining, and performing leadless threat hunting analysis to uncover new or potential incidents and report on results
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Analyze anomalous network and system events in a 24/7 SOC via leadless threat hunting.
• Collaborate with MDR Analysts to research threats and escalate advanced intrusion analysis.
• Develop incident analysis reports and coordinate resolutions with business units and customers.
• Design and improve SOC operational processes to boost efficiency.
• Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis across customer environments.
• Build test labs to research new techniques and contribute to knowledge development.
• Review sandbox tools for additional IOCs from analysis artifacts.

Skills

SOC experience

Threat hunting

Endpoint triage

Windows security

Windows/Linux/macOS knowledge

ELK Stack

PowerShell

Python

Go

AWS

Azure/M365

Threat intelligence

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

ELK Stack

PowerShell

Python

Go

AWS

Azure/M365

Job description

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking an experienced Senior SOC Analyst to support threat hunting and incident analysis across customer environments in a fast-paced SOC. You will collaborate with MDR Analysts, develop incident analyses, and help improve SOC processes and efficiency.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in information security, strong Windows knowledge, ELK familiarity, and hands-on scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Go.