Senior Cyber Security Ops Analyst | Remote | Contract
$156,000–$176,800 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Senior Cyber Security Ops Analyst for a 6+ month contract role. This remote position supports security monitoring and incident response for internal and external threats, collaborating with IT teams and MSSP to ensure effective monitoring and response. Responsibilities include overseeing DLP and SIEM events across on-premise and cloud systems, implementing advanced monitoring techniques for SaaS/cloud/network/endpoints, managing and improving security monitoring products (DLP, SIEM, EDR, AV, Cloud Security, IDS), developing automation response scripts to remediate commodity threats, conducting threat hunting and threat analysis using kill chain and Diamond Model frameworks, performing threat research to improve detection and response capabilities, proposing/reviewing security plans and policies, maintaining operational playbooks and process diagrams, and providing off-hour support. You will work with MSSP services, external forensic providers, and in-house IT teams to respond to incidents and review compromised systems to identify root causes.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in security monitoring and incident response
- Strong knowledge of DLP (data loss prevention) and SIEM events
- Experience with advanced security monitoring techniques on SaaS, cloud systems, network, servers, and endpoints
- Proficiency in managing and administering security monitoring products for DLP, SIEM, EDR, AV, Cloud Security products, IDS, and other industry standard security technologies
- Ability to develop automation response scripts for commodity threats
- Familiarity with threat hunting activities to identify compromised resources
- Understanding of threat analysis utilizing industry standard frameworks (kill chain and diamond model)
- Experience in threat research and intelligence gathering to improve detection and response capabilities
- Knowledge of reviewing security plans and policies to enhance the security environment
- Strong documentation skills for operational playbooks, process diagrams, and security monitoring/response documentation
- Ability to review proposed Security deployments to ensure compliance with security monitoring requirements
- Willingness to provide off-hour support for security monitoring and response activities
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