HR Professional Consulting is hiring a
Incident Response Analyst

Summary

HR Professionals is hiring Incident Response Analysts for positions in Louisiana or remotely. The roles involve following best practices to ensure internal security and working with various teams. Minimum requirements include a Bachelor’s degree, relevant experience, network management skills, Web Application Firewall administration, web application development skills, TCP/IP network administration, incident response experience, and internet source identification proficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
• 4 or more years of relevant cybersecurity operations, security system operations management, and/or experience in roles described in this section
• Network performance management such as troubleshooting slow server response times and network routing issues
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) administration including custom signature authoring, managing governance of signature deployment, patching, etc., signature efficacy evaluation/tuning, authoring of policy testing regimen
• Web application developer/administration including troubleshooting of web server engines (e.g. connection monitoring, resource utilization, slow response, etc.), web application stacks (e.g. connections from an application to a database server, authentication flows, etc.), elements supporting web applications such as containers, operating systems, micro-service hosting platforms, and impacts of application errors related to data validation or malformed API calls
• TCP/IP network administration / optimization / troubleshooting
• Incident response experience for inbound application attacks with experience working in a structured, formal “Security Operations Center” (SOC) environment and proficiency in identifying internet sources and distinguishing suspicious from benign

Responsibilities

• Investigate anomalous network traffic pattern events
• Develop and maintain DoS and web application firewall policies to protect the Firm
• Identify, document, and mitigate risk and exposure to emerging threats identified by peer organizations
• Test and validate policy rules/signatures for effectiveness, applicability, etc
• Profile current and new applications and map to appropriate perimeter security policy
• Deliver Incident Response Support for DoS, DDoS, and related application attacks
• Provide activity and progress reporting to Cyber Operations management

Preferred Qualifications

• SIEM including complex search compilation in tools such as Splunk
• Application development such as text manipulation/handling via scripting in Python or Java and regular expressions, creating proof of concepts to exploit zero day vulnerabilities
• Previous 24 X 7 operations experience
• 1 or more years of cybersecurity operations related experience, including threat and risk assessment documentation