Blackpoint Cyber is hiring a
Senior MDR Analyst

Summary

The job is for a cybersecurity professional with at least 5 years of experience in an information security role. The role involves threat hunting, analysis, incident response, and some automation work in a 24x7 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment. The company values high-quality execution, ownership, and strong morals.

Requirements

• Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role. Progressive relevant training and/or certification may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement
• Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.)
• Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX
• Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching) Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365
• Experience in developing, refining, and performing leadless threat hunting analysis to uncover new or potential incidents and report on results
• Ability to work shifts if required (night, weekends, and day)
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
• Excellent communication skills to effectively summarize and present findings

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24x7 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment via conducting lead-less threat hunting
• Collaborate with MDR Analysts to research and investigate emerging cyber security threats; become an escalation point of contact for advanced intrusion analysis
• Develop Incident analysis reports and work across business units and customers to bring issues to a close
• Help design and build automation to reduce operational tasks of SOC processes
• Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis based on security events for many independent customer environments
• Build test lab environments to research emerging techniques and make contributions to the internal and external knowledge development of threat operations
• Review sandbox technologies for additional IOCs uncovered from artifacts uncovered during analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Hunting, or Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), preferred
• Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process

Benefits

Blackpoint Cyber offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks