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[Hiring] Security Analyst @Thinkahead
Mar 24, 2025 - Thinkahead is hiring a remote Security Analyst. 💸 Salary: on-target earnings based on experience. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
SOC Analysts at AHEAD monitor customer environments and perform Incident Detection, Validation, and Incident Reporting. They are the frontline of SOC and are customer-facing representatives responsible for triaging events, incidents, and reporting validated incidents to the customer for incident response.
- Monitor and analyze network traffic and alerts
- Investigate intrusion attempts and perform in-depth analysis of exploits
- Provide network intrusion detection expertise to support timely and effective decision making of when to declare an incident
- Conduct proactive threat research
- Review security events that are populated in a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system
- Tuning of rules, filters, and policies for detection-related security technologies to improve accuracy and visibility
- Data mining of log sources to uncover and investigate anomalous activity, along with related items of interest
- Independently follow procedures to contain, analyze, and eradicate malicious activity
- Document all activities during an incident and provide leadership with status updates during the life cycle of the incident
- Incident management, response, and reporting
- Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents, and other threat indications and warning information to the client
- Track trends, statistics, and key figures for each assigned client
- Assist with the development of processes and procedures to improve incident response times, analysis of incident, and overall SOC functions
- Reporting
- Incident reports
- Security status reports
- Client-facing security meetings
Qualifications
- Incident handling/response experience
- Working knowledge of common operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.) and basic endpoint security principles
- Understanding of and a strong desire to learn common security technologies (IDS, Firewall, SIEM, etc.)
- The ability to think creatively to find elegant solutions to complex problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- The desire to work both independently and collaboratively with a larger team
- A willingness to be challenged along with a strong appetite for learning
- 2-4 years of experience in Information Security, Incident Response, etc. (or related field)
- Hands-on experience with common security technologies (IDS, Firewall, SIEM, etc.)
- Knowledge of common security analysis tools & techniques
- Understanding of common security threats, attack vectors, vulnerabilities and exploits
- Knowledge of regular expressions
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related/equivalent educational or work experience
- One or more of the following certifications: CISSP, GCIA, Security+, CEH, ACSE
Requirements
- This position is NIGHT SHIFT: 7pm-7am ET. Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits here for additional details.
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