Information Security Engineer

Security Operations Center (SOC) Information Security Analyst

The Business Technologies Division is seeking a qualified Security Operations Center (SOC) Information Security Analyst. The Information Security department at DEN wishes to engage a consultant to monitor, analyze, and respond to security events within the scope of DEN's Security Operations Center. Qualified candidates will have a broad understanding of a range of security tools, expertise in responding to alerts generated by Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM) platforms, experience with threat hunting, threat client collection, and the ability to relay technical information to non-technical audiences.

In alignment with industry's best practices the SOC analyst will respond to security alerts generated by DEN systems via the SEIM platform in addition to incidents reported to the Information Security team via the DEN Business Technologies ticketing platform. The Analyst will perform cyber incident triage to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact for each alert. The Analyst will perform containment and remediation according to DEN procedures. If an appropriate response procedure does not currently exist, the analyst will leverage their experience and open-source industry standards to document appropriate response procedures for general use. SOC Analyst will review industry relevant cyber alerts (US-CERT, A-ISAC, etc.) and vendor specific cyber alerts to gather as much information on threat behavior, goals and methods as possible to proactively search for threats on the DEN network. Other cybersecurity relevant tasks as required by management.

Experience and education expectations for a SOC Analyst include:

• Understanding basic networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing and switching, ping, traceroute, DNS, NTP, TLS, etc.
• Preference to candidates with Microsoft Azure, EntraID, Sentinel, Defender, and Crowdstrike or similar EDR platform experience.
• 2+ years of experience as SOC Analyst

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.