Responsibilities:

• Provide investigation for escalated security incidents.

• Check for false positive & duplicates.

• Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the CSIRT guidelines.

• Communicates directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents.

• Hunting for suspicious anomalous activity based on data alerts or data outputs from various toolsets.

• Perform analysis of log files to collect more contextual information in order to triage the security threat.

• Provide forensics analysis and investigation.

• Drives containment strategy during data loss or breach events.

• Triage and resolve advanced vector attacks such as botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).

• Works directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents.

• Provide tuning recommendations to administrators based on findings during investigations or threat information reviews.

• Collect contextual information and pursue technical root cause analysis and attack method analysis.

• Make content determination to treat the alert as a security incident and assign a severity level.

Skills

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.

• The candidate must have extensive experience in incident handling and reporting (at least 3 years in a similar role).

• Professional certifications related to incident response is preferable.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Knowledge of network security zones, Firewall configurations, IDS policies.

• Knowledge of systems communications from Layer 1 to 7.

• Experience with Systems Administration, Middleware, and Application Administration.

• Experience with Network and Network Security tools administration.

• In-depth experience with log search tools and usage of regular expressions.

• In-depth knowledge of packet capture and analysis.

• Experience with Security Assessment tools (NMAP, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat).

• Ability to make create a containment strategy and execute it.