Job description
• 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.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field. Fluent in English language. 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 create a containment strategy and execute it.