Information Security Analyst - SecOps

Summary

Join G-P, a leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™, and become our Information Security Analyst - SecOps. You will be responsible for securing our infrastructure, managing security technologies, and providing security expertise. Operating with elevated access, you will work autonomously, applying sound judgment and industry best practices. You will investigate alerts, conduct incident response, and develop remediation plans. You will also identify emerging threats, provide security recommendations, and assist with due diligence requests. This role requires 5+ years of information security experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. The position involves shift work and on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or Engineering required, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of information security experience, preferably in the technology industry
• Hands-on security operations experience including interdisciplinary experience with two or more of the following: Cyber Threat Analysis, Incident Response, Application Security, Operating Systems Security, Networking, Programming languages
• Technical experience and comprehensive knowledge of threat actor capabilities, intentions, methodologies and motives
• Familiarity with computer network exploitation and network attack methodologies
• Experience with cloud computing; AWS preferred
• Shift work and working in an on-call response capacity is required including availability for 24 x 7 on-call support responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Investigate alerts, triage, deep dive, and come up with proper action items and remediation plans
• Conduct investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
• Compose incident analysis and finding reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement
• Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors/security controls
• Participate in security incident response through in-depth, technical (log, forensic, malware, packet) analysis
• Provide oversight of security alert detection and analysis capabilities across multiple technologies to ensure that security incidents are identified in a timely manner
• Escalate and support potential security incidents in line with appropriate processes
• Support communications of potential security incidents via multiple channels
• Participate in the response of potential security incidents by identifying and communicating relevant supplementary information
• Identify and analyze new and emerging threats to determine impacts to G-P and provide guidelines and recommendations pertaining to opportunities to strengthen G-P security posture
• Assist with information security due diligence requests as needed
• Provide security recommendations to other team members, management, and business stakeholders for solutions, enhancements to existing systems, and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Strongly prefer at least one of the following certifications: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CHFI, GCFA, CASP+
• Log analysis and security content development in SIEM solutions, e.g. Google SecOps, Splunk, IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, etc
• Endpoint detection and response tools, e.g. CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, etc
• Incident Response playbook development, managing security incident analysis and remediation
• Network-based preventative and detective technologies like Secure Web Gateway, Private Access, IDS/IPS, firewalls, proxy servers, e.g. Netskope, Zscaler, Palo, Versa, etc
• Log analysis and security content development in SIEM solutions, e.g. Google SecOps/Chronicle preferred, Splunk, IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, etc
• Scripting and development activities to appropriately leverage Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) to optimize integrations between disparate security monitoring and analysis devices
• Strong understanding of security as it relates to DevOps (specifically in CI/CD)
• Experience in SaaS, multi-tenant customer solutions