SOC ANALYST TIER 2/3 (Contractor)

SOC 2/3 Engineer (Remote Contractor): General Duties - Responsible for investigating security incidents and determining their root causes. They review incidents that have been escalated by Tier 1 analysts, who are responsible for collecting data and reviewing alerts. Tier 2/3 analysts use threat intelligence, such as indicators of compromise, TTPs, and company host system/network data sets to assess the alerts, threats and potential incidents in more depth. General Skills - They have deep experience with SIEM tools specifically Crowdstrike SIEM, network data, host data, Identity and Access log data, developing SIEM use cases, reducing/tuning false alerts and leading investigations until issues have been resolved. They will also monitor systems and events across different operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. Specific Requirements - Must have 5+ years recent experience as Tier 2 or 3 analyst at a large organization; government and Critical Infrastructure company preferred. Must have strong, demonstrated SIEM and data correlation experience Must have demonstrated experience designing new SOC use cases and working with vendor on implementing new use cases. Must have experience designing and implementing runbooks and use cases to mitigate security incidents Experience designing Incident Response plan, including alert definition, runbooks, escalation, etc.. Experience documenting incident response communications for technical and management audiences Must have extensive experience reviewing and managing alerts in Microsoft Defender, Splunk Must have experience conducting hunts across disparate data sets, to include host data, vulnerability data, threat data, network data, active directory data, among others to identify threats Experience leading timely security operations response efforts in collaboration with stakeholders Must have experience setting up alert rules and effective alert management Demonstrated ability to create runbooks and conducting investigations with key application, IT Infra and other stakeholders Experience designing custom SOC SIEM use cases in Defender, Splunk and CRWD Experience conducting forensic work investigations Strong security operations documentation abilities Attributes sought - Must be proactive, problem solver and curious. Most be a problem solver Must be curious Must be analytical, qualitative and quantitative abilities Must be adaptive to dynamic environment MST or PST shift times