Palo Alto Cortex XDR- SOC Analyst

Position: Palo Alto Cortex XDR/SOC Analyst

Location: Alameda, CA (Onsite)

Duration: 6 Months (With possible extension)

Job Description:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and 10 years of related experience; or Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency with SOC tools and technologies such as SIEM (Splunk), EDR (Cortex), and IDS/IPS (e.g., Snort, Suricata).
• Extensive experience in Palo Alto Cortex XDR and a deep understanding and practical application of XQL queries is required.
• Extensive experience in a SOC environment, with a strong background in threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting.
• Experience in proactive threat hunting to identify and neutralize emerging threats using Cortex XDR.
• Ability to develop and refine correlation rules within Cortex XDR to detect complex attack patterns, leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Ability to configure and fine-tune Cortex XDR to maximize their effectiveness by integrating various log sources and data feeds to enhance visibility and detection.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and integrating threat intelligence feeds to security tools to enrich threat detection.
• Ability to work with various data sources to create high-fidelity alerting.
• Strong analytical skills to correlate events and make informed decisions based on data.
• Ability to analyze user behaviours and network traffic to detect suspicious activities.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with security vendors.
• Experience with Cloud APIs.
• Experience with any threat Intelligence platform like cortex XSOAR, Crowdstrik Adversary, ThreatConnect etc.
• Good to have experience with Cortex XSIAM.
• Experience or working knowledge of cloud, network, and application security.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $116,425.00 - $180,048.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $116,425 - $180,048