Senior Analyst - SOC Monitoring

Job Purpose

The Security Operations Centre team at CPX is a cross-functional Operations/ Engineering team involved at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the SecOps communication, collaboration, and integration method. The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for leading security monitoring efforts, analyzing various log sources, responding to security incidents, and enhancing the overall security operations program within elements of CPX/Client technology.

Job Responsibilities

Key Focus 

Key Activities 

Key Responsibilities:

• Validate the Incidents escalated by Tier 1 SOC Security Analysts.
• Perform second levrrency of threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the organization services and information’s.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across wide variety data sets (e.g., indications and warnings).
• Provide recommendations foel of incident handling, and security monitoring and validation of physical security
• Identify weaknesses in software, hardware, and networks.
• Analyze, and communicate with stakeholders, the threats associated with every incident.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to validate network alerts.
• Conduct analysis of log files, evidence, and other information in order to determine best methods for identifying attackers.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
• Monitor external data sources (e.g., Threat Intelligent sources, Dubai AE-CERT Teams, etc.) to maintain cur SIEM content development, tuning, reports and dashboards.

Characteristics:

• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, and interpersonal.
• Strong team player with a customer service orientation, ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures.
• Ethical, honest, fair, and with high integrity.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills required.
• Exhibits ownership of projects and assigned tasks.
• Has an in-depth understanding of the incident response process, analysis, alerts, rules, etc.
• Highly analytical, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to thrive in an energetic, fast paced, high growth security team environment.
• Must be able to pass all security clearances
• Quickly owns and handles tasks accurately, highly dependable, and self-motivated.
• Takes proper care and administration to configure, implement, and maintain DLP technologies. 

AOR (Any Other Responsibilities)

• Any other responsibilities as required by the Line Manager

Job Specifications

Certifications (Technical & Non-Technical)

• Related security certifications (i.e. CCNA, Network+, Security+, CISSP, CISM, GICSP, GCIH, GCIA, GRID)

Minimum Work Experience

• Min 6-8 yrs. experience one or more of the following: 
• Skilled in identifying trends and patterns from analyzing host-based, network-based security logs
• Used network investigation tools such as Wireshark, and any other open source tools such as ELK, Rekall, Ghidra, FlareVM, to analyze log sources/memory/malware to understand intrusion vectors and attacker tactics, techniques and procedures
• Provide support and guidance to improve security requirements for the security operations
• Experience with Windows/Linux/Unix, understanding of NIDS/HIDS
• Monitoring of SIEM alerts with tools such as Splunk and EDR solutions

Education

• BS or MS in Information Security / Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or related field