Senior MDR Analyst

Summary

Join Blackpoint Cyber, a leading cybersecurity company experiencing rapid growth, as a Security Analyst. You will analyze network and system events in a 24/7 SOC environment, conduct leadless threat hunting, collaborate with MDR analysts, and develop incident reports. This role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience in a SOC, and expertise in threat analysis within Windows environments. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of various operating systems, familiarity with the ELK stack and cloud services, and experience in threat hunting. Blackpoint offers competitive benefits, including health, vision, dental, and life insurance, a 401k plan, and discretionary time off.

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
• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process
• 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
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24x7x365 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 operational processes and procedures to improve overall SOC efficiency
• 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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Network/System Administration and/or Engineering
• Deep forensic knowledge of Windows, Mac OS and/or Linux
• Experience in Digital Forensics and Incident Response a plus
• Malware Analysis (Behavioral and/or Static analysis- IDA, Cuckoo Sandbox, x86/x64 Debugging)
• Pentesting/Red/Blue Team
• Capture The Flag (CTF) Development

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans
• A robust 401k plan
• Discretionary Time Off
• Other minor perks