SOC Security Analyst L3

BlueVoyant

College Park (MD)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Disability insurance

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst to defend clients against cyber threats. The role involves active incident management, technical mentoring, and direct client communication, ensuring security incidents are handled promptly and effectively within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

5+ years of hands-on SOC/TOC/NOC experience.
Knowledge of Windows and Unix forensic artifacts.
Experience in intrusion analysis or incident response.

Responsibilities

Monitor and analyze security events and alerts.
Perform analysis of malware and attacker network infrastructure.
Document incidents and communicate with clients.

Skills

Advanced written and verbal communication

Ability to handle high pressure situations

Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

Knowledge and experience with SIEM solutions

Expert knowledge of common attack paths

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security

Job description

Direct message the job poster from BlueVoyant

Location: The requirement has been updated to work out of the College Park, Maryland office 2 - 3 days per week

Shift Requirement:

BlueVoyant's U.S. Commercial SOC operates on a four days on, three days off schedule. Analysts work one of the following options:

Sundays-Wednesdays: with analysts operating either
6am-4pm
8am-6pm
10am-8pm
8pm-6am (night shift)
Wednesdays-Saturdays: with analysts operating either
6am-4pm
8am-6pm
10am-8pm
8pm-6am (night shift)

Summary

BlueVoyant is looking for Security Operations Center (SOC) Analysts to defend our global customers from the constant fight against adversaries. You will be part of a fast-paced team that helps spot, defend, and remediate adversary activity to reduce the impact and dwell time of security incidents.

As an L3 analyst, you are the ultimate technical expert and escalation point for analysts on your team. Your significant expertise in modern attacks, analysis of intrusion data, and knowledge of attack remediation ensures that attacks against our clients are handled with urgency, accuracy, and effective communication. You are the mentor for L1/L2 analysts, the trusted voice of customers, and the bane of adversaries. The experience you bring to the role provides a front-row voice to technology strategy, process improvements, and an advocate for analysts around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

As an L3 analyst the safety and security of your clients is your ultimate motivator and responsibility. You’ll handle active intrusions and escalations from L1 and L2 analysts, and you know how to dive into client systems and logs to find attacker activity while tracing a labyrinth of domain registrations and ripping apart malware. When you say “it’s bad” everyone jumps into action.

Beyond technical expertise, you understand that the burden of proof is on you and requires excellent documentation and communication. Clients are not left with more questions than they started with when they read your reports and know exactly what actions they need to take to kick bad guys to the curb.

Monitor and analyze security events and alerts from multiple sources, including SIEM logs, endpoint logs, and EDR telemetry
Research indicators and activities to determine reputation and suspicious attributes
Perform analysis of malware, attacker network infrastructure, and forensic artifacts
Execute complex investigations and handle incident declaration
Perform live response analysis of compromised endpoints
Hunt for suspicious activity based on anomalous activity and curated intelligence
Participate in the response, investigation, and resolution of security incidents.
Provide incident investigation, handling, response, and incident documentation
Engage and assist the BlueVoyant Incident Response teams for active intrusions
Ensure events are properly identified, analyzed, and escalated to incidents.
Assist in the advancement of security policies, procedures, and automation
Serve as the technical escalation point and mentor for lower-level analysts
Regularly communicate with clients to inform them of incidents and aid in remediation

Basic Qualifications

People Skills:
Ability to handle high pressure situations in a productive and professional manner.
Ability to work directly with customers to understand requirements for and feedback on security services
Advanced written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics in clear and easy-to-understand language
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed team
Able and willing to work in a 24/7/365 environment, including nights and weekends, on a rotating shift schedule
Knowledge and experience with SIEM solutions, Cloud App Security tools, and EDR
Advanced knowledge and understanding of network protocols and network telemetry
Forensic artifact and analysis knowledge of Windows and Unix systems
Expertise in Endpoint, Web, and Authentication log analysis
Experience with SIEM/EDR detection creation
Experience in responding to modern authentication attacks against AD, Entra, OATH, etc.
Expert knowledge of common attack paths, including LOLbin use, common adversary tools, business email compromises, AiTM attacks, including identification and response
Strong knowledge of the following:
SIEM workflows (preferably Sentinel and Splunk)
Modern authentication systems and attacks (SSO, OATH, Entra, etc.)
Malware Detection, to include dynamic and light static analysis
Network Monitoring metadata (web logs, firewall logs, WAF/IDS)
Email Security and common business email compromise attacks
Windows and Unix forensic artifacts (i.e. registry analysis, wtmp/btmp)
Windows PE and Maldoc analysis
Remote access solutions (both legitimate and inherently malicious)
Lateral movement methodologies and tools for Windows & Unix-based OSes
O365 attack paths, common attacker methodologies, and analysis
Network metadata analysis and knowledge of commonly abused protocols
Expert knowledge of credential harvesting tools and methodologies
Experience countering ransomware threat actors / operations preferred

Preferred Qualifications

Experience intrusion analysis / incident response, digital forensics, penetration testing, or related areas
5+ years of hands-on SOC/TOC/NOC experience
GCIA and GCIH required. GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, Security +, Network +, CEH, RHCA, RHCE, MCSA, MCP, or MCSE preferred
Familiarity with technologies such as Sentinel, Splunk, Microsoft Defender suites, Crowdstrike Falcon, SentinelOne
Familiarity with GPO, Landesk, or other IT Infrastructure tools

Education

Minimum bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or other IT-related field or equivalent experience

About BlueVoyant

At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. Accuracy! Actionability! Timeliness! Scalability!

Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.

Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America.

All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Disclaimer: Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of the company’s federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee’s ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon the company’s verification of the employee’s citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

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Job function

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Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Computer and Network Security

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