Senior Mdr Analyst

Summary

Join Blackpoint Cyber, a leading cybersecurity company experiencing rapid growth, as a Security Analyst. You will play a crucial role in analyzing network and system events within a 24/7 SOC environment, conducting threat hunting, and collaborating with MDR analysts. Responsibilities include incident analysis reporting, process improvement, threat vulnerability analysis, and building test lab environments. This position requires extensive experience in information security, SOC operations, endpoint event triaging, and threat indicator assessment. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential. 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