SOC Senior Threat Analyst

Job Title : SOC Senior Threat Analyst

Job Type : Contract

Location: Brooklyn NY 11201

Scope Of Services

The experienced Specialist will augment staff in the 24x7x365 Security Operations Center including nights, weekends and holidays to monitor the health of City networks.

Tasks

• Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing 24x7x365 coverage at the City’s Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Interface with OTI Cyber Command teams internally, with City agencies, vendors and information-sharing partners.
• Monitor City networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise and anomalous behavior; apply mitigation techniques or escalation factors; correlate threat intelligence across various logs collected by established security controls.
  
  

Mandatory Skills/Experience

Minimum 8 years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment.

*** This is a night-shift position. Candidate must be willing to work nights and/or weekends***

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Knowledge of information security principles, practices, and procedures
• Strong understanding of network and host technologies
• Experience applying techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusion using IDS methods and technologies
• Experience with SIEM technologies, malware analysis and mitigation techniques
• Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)
• Interpret information collected by diagnostic network tools (nslookup, Ping and Traceroute)
• Ability to investigate and solve complex problems