Blackpoint Cyber · 15 hours ago

Senior MDR Analyst (M-F 12 PM - 8 PM ET)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$90K/yr - $130K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24x7x365 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment via conducting lead-less threat hunting.

Collaborate with MDR Analysts to research and investigate emerging cyber security threats; become an escalation point of contact for advanced intrusion analysis.

Develop Incident analysis reports and work across business units and customers to bring issues to a close.

Help design and build operational processes and procedures to improve overall SOC efficiency.

Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis based on security events for many independent customer environments.

Build test lab environments to research emerging techniques and make contributions to the internal and external knowledge development of threat operations.

Review sandbox technologies for additional IOCs uncovered from artifacts uncovered during analysis.

Qualification

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Information Security ExperienceSecurity Operations Center (SOC)Endpoint Event TriagingThreat Indicator AssessmentWindows/Linux/OSX KnowledgeELK Stack FamiliarityScripting with PowershellScripting with PythonScripting with GoAWS Services EC2AWS Services S3AWS Services IAMAzure/M365 FamiliarityLeadless Threat Hunting AnalysisNetwork/System AdministrationDigital Forensics ExperienceMalware AnalysisPentesting/Red/Blue TeamCapture The Flag (CTF) DevelopmentCritical Thinking Skills

Required

Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role. Progressive relevant training and/or certification may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement

Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC)

Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process

Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.)

Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX

Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching) Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go

Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365

Experience in developing, refining, and performing leadless threat hunting analysis to uncover new or potential incidents and report on results

Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences