Principal Threat Analyst | Remote, USA

T his position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.

This role is Monday-Friday 11AM-7PM PST. This team provides 24 / 7 support and this role will require shift flexibility.

The Principal Threat Analyst will provide deep level analysis for client investigations utilizing customer provided data sources, audit, and monitoring tools at both the government and enterprise level. The Principal Threat Analyst will work closely with our Technology Engineers, Architects, and Threat Analysts to service customers.

How you'll make an impact :

Operate independently in a geographically dispersed team, while maintaining situational awareness and keeping the team up to date

Perform security monitoring and incident response activities across the networks, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques

Detect incidents through proactive “hunting” across security-relevant data sets

Thoroughly document incident response analysis activities

Review investigations conducted by more junior analysts to ensure quality standards are met

Develop new, repeatable methods for finding malicious activity across the networks

Provide recommendations to enhance detection and protection capabilities

Regularly present technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences

Develop and follow detailed operational processes and procedures to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in the remediation of information security incidents

Prioritize multiple high-priority tasks and formulate responses / recommendations to customers and team members in a fast-paced environment

Provide assistance to other security teams

Continually develop new technical skills and push overall team capabilities forward

Engage with and mentor other team members

Work with other teams on major engineering and architecture initiatives

Be innovative with their understanding of attack methodologies, malware analysis, malicious toolkits, and how those may manifest within various security technologies

Advanced proactive threat hunting

Understands advanced adversary emulation concepts

Advanced use case design for insider threat, operational, threat detection and response

Review of defensive and detective controls to reduce client attack surface

What we're looking for :

6 years operational experience assessing, reviewing, and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities, CVE’s, and risks.

Knowledge of third-party software vulnerabilities, security threat landscape, especially network and server threats

Knowledge of cyber security threats and risks, vendor computing environments, basic systems, and network technologies.

Experience with and understanding of CVE’s and CVSS scores

Knowledge of compensating controls and mitigating factors.

Knowledge of Information Security frameworks, guidelines, and standard methodologies.

Knowledge of the Windows and / or Linux operating systems

Knowledge and understanding of Cybersecurity controls and logging and monitoring tools.

Ability to expertly interact with all levels of personnel

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Strong in problem solving and analytical skills

Ability to work on multiple projects by prioritizing and results oriented approach

Good teammate with flexibility required for support operations

Be well versed in the cyber threat landscape; have an advanced understanding and knowledge of what tactics and techniques are being used by adversaries; have an advanced understand and knowledge of what security controls and / or telemetry data is available to detect these tactics and techniques; and be familiar with cyber security incident response terminology, processes, and techniques.

Moderate to complex investigations (multiple tools) including endpoint, UEBA, public cloud, SAAS and packet analysis

Security use case design recommendations for threat detection

Threat response activities such as quarantining host and other common response playbook activities

Proactive threat hunting using multiple client tools

Process development and documentation

Application of threat intelligence to improve detection and response capabilities

Extensive experience with the MITRE @ttack framework and associated tactics

Extensive alert triage and endpoint investigations using technologies such as EDR

Phishing analysis

Malware analysis (does not include reverse engineering)

MITRE attack framework expertise and understanding of common attack tactics used by threat actors

Provide recommendations on tuning of security detection platforms and use cases to improve accuracy of detection

Knowledge AWS, Azure, GCP cloud service technology

Basic fraud and insider threat specific investigation skills

Knowledge of metrics and reporting with the use of data visualization tools such as Tableau

Demonstrable data analytics skills

Must have a passion for data analysis

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What you can expect from Optiv

A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups () .

Work / life balance

Professional training resources

Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects

Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.

The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely / from home (where applicable)

EEO Statement

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