SOC Analyst Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a SOC Analyst to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Document security breaches and assess the impact;
- Responsible for security incident investigation and response lifecycle;
- Build out Incident Response automation;
- Monitoring of events & alerts from a multitude of technologies to detect malicious activity;
- Collaborate and generate documentation for transfer knowledge with other analysts on duty to effectively resolve security breaches;
- Responsible for security event monitoring, management and response;
- Fix detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high-security standard.
Requirements:
- Moderate knowledge of current threat landscape (threat actors, APT, cyber-crime, etc.);
- Demonstrated ability to analyze, triage and remediate security incidents;
- Understanding of Security principles, techniques and technologies such as SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls and OWASP Top 10;
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously;
- Basic knowledge of audit requirements (PCI, HIPPA, SOX, etc.);
- Experience with command line interface and some level of exposure to administering systems and services for various operating systems;
- Moderate knowledge of security related technologies and their functions (IDS, IPS, EDR, IRP, FW, WAF, SIEM, etc.);
- Knowledge of using at least one industry standard SIEM and SOAR (Slunk, Exabeam, QRadar);
- 2+ Years Security Operations or Security Incident Response Management Experience;
- MS or Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent desired;
- High Collaboration and Influence Skills;
- Experience in one or more endpoint security tools;
- Advanced knowledge in scripting languages in Python/Shell/PowerShell;
- Experience of Security monitoring and response in public cloud (AWS, GCP, etc);
- In depth experience in troubleshooting communication protocols (DNS, HTTP, TLS).