SOC Security Analyst L2

SOC Security Analyst L2
Location: Cork, Ireland

Schedule: Panama schedule (slow rotating shift pattern that uses 4 teams and two 12-hour shifts to provide 24/7 coverage: 2 days on, 2 days off, 3 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on, 3 days off). Every 4 weeks, it will change from day to night shift.

BlueVoyant is looking for Security Operations Center (SOC) Security Analyst L2 to help our global customers manage their IT security. You will be part of a fast-paced team that helps customers reduce the impact of security incidents and ensures that critical business operations continue unhindered.

Summary

As a Senior analyst, you are the ultimate technical expert and escalation point for analysts on your team. Your significant expertise in modern attacks, analysis of intrusion data, and knowledge of attack remediation ensure that attacks against our clients are handled with urgency, accuracy, and effective communication. You are the mentor for junior analysts, the trusted voice of customers, and the bane of adversaries.

Key Responsibilities

- Monitor and analyze security events and alerts from multiple sources, including SIEM logs, endpoint logs, and EDR telemetry.
- Research indicators and activities to determine reputation and suspicious attributes.
- Perform analysis of malware, attacker network infrastructure, and forensic artifacts.
- Execute complex investigations and handle incident declaration.
- Perform live response analysis of compromised endpoints.
- Hunt for suspicious activity based on anomalous activity and curated intelligence.
- Participate in the response, investigation, and resolution of security incidents.
- Provide incident investigation, handling, response, and incident documentation.
- Engage and assist the BlueVoyant Incident Response teams for active intrusions.
- Ensure events are properly identified, analyzed, and escalated to incidents.
- Assist in the advancement of security policies, procedures, and automation.
- Serve as the technical escalation point and mentor for lower-level analysts.
- Regularly communicate with clients to inform them of incidents and aid in remediation.
- Identification and tuning of false-positive or benign detections.
- Perform peer review and QA of junior analyst investigations.
- Support Customer Success team with client engagements when required.

Basic Qualifications
People Skills:

- Ability to handle high pressure situations in a productive and professional manner.
- Ability to work directly with customers to understand requirements for and feedback on security services.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics in clear and easy-to-understand language.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed team.
- Able and willing to work in a 24/7/365 environment, including nights and weekends, on a rotating shift schedule.

Tech Skills:

- Knowledge and experience with SIEM solutions, Cloud App Security tools, and EDR.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of network protocols and network telemetry.
- Forensic artifact and analysis knowledge of Windows and Unix systems.
- Expertise in Endpoint, Web, and Authentication log analysis.
- Experience with SIEM/EDR detection creation.
- Experience in responding to modern authentication attacks against AD, Entra, OATH, etc.
- Expert knowledge of common attack paths, including LOLbin use, common adversary tools, business email compromises, AiTM attacks, including identification and response.
- Strong knowledge of the following:

- SIEM workflows (preferably Sentinel and Splunk).
- Modern authentication systems and attacks SSO, OATH, Entra, etc.
- Malware Detection, to include dynamic and light static analysis.
- Network Monitoring metadata (web logs, firewall logs, WAF/IDS).
- Email Security and common business email compromise attacks.
- Windows and Unix forensic artifacts (i.e., registry analysis, wtmp/btmp).
- Windows PE and Maldoc analysis.
- Remote access solutions (both legitimate and inherently malicious).
- Lateral movement methodologies and tools for Windows & Unix-based OSes.
- O365 attack paths, common attacker methodologies, and analysis.
- Network metadata analysis and knowledge of commonly abused protocols.
- Expert knowledge of credential harvesting tools and methodologies.
- Experience countering ransomware threat actors / operations preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience intrusion analysis / incident response, digital forensics, penetration testing, or related areas.
- 3+ years of hands-on SOC/TOC/NOC experience.
- GIAC certification(s) strongly preferred. CISSP, Security +, Network +, CEH, RHCA, RHCE, MCSA, MCP, or MCSE preferred.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Sentinel, Splunk, Microsoft Defender suites, Crowdstrike Falcon, SentinelOne.
- Familiarity with GPO, Landesk, or other IT Infrastructure tools.
- Understanding and/or experience with one or more of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Python, Lua, Ruby, GoLang, Rust.

Education

- Minimum bachelor's degree in information security, Computer Science, or other IT-related field or equivalent experience.

About BlueVoyant

At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem.

All employees must be authorized to work in the Republic of Ireland. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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