Your background
- Familiarity with Cyber Security and Information Technology.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Basic knowledge in Cloud Security/Monitoring is a bonus.
What you can expect
As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst, you will play a crucial role in the team’s daily operations involving threat monitoring and detection.Collaborating with a dynamic team, you will intake cybersecurity related requests from internal and external entities that require triage, remediation, or escalation.
What you will do
- Perform deep dives into suspicious security events by collating data from various sources, working across multiple GIS Control Teams, to determine if a critical system or data has been impacted.
- Must be able to identify, analyze and address problems to resolve issues whenever possible in way that minimizes negative impact and risk to the organization.
- Ability to work independently with initiatives and minimum supervision.
- Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking.
- Ability to work with Technical and Non-Technical business owners.
- Assist with internal projects and development efficiently.
- Must be comfortable in delivering messages across a wide spectrum of individuals having varying degrees of technical understanding.
- Must have strong leadership skills and qualities enabling collaboration with peers and various levels of management.
- Assist in supervision of teams and provide mentorship to junior analysts to equip them with basic skills needed during operation support.
- Actively participate and be involved in the evolution of process/procedure and tools used within the team.
- Learn and perform monitoring activities with the use of Cloud Technologies.
- Perform ad-hoc reporting and investigation as required.
- Perform Quality Assurance (QA) check against various queues.
- Willing to work weekend on a rotational shift basis.
- Perform real-time analysis and trending of security log data from various security devices and systems.
- Maintain data sources feeding the log monitoring system, develop and maintain detection and alerting rules.
- Respond to user incident reports and evaluates the type and severity of security events.
- Execute initial triage of incidents to rule out false positives.
- Identify recurring security issues and risks and develops mitigation plans and recommends process improvements.
- Interpret and apply security policies and procedures.
- Establish escalation processes for security incidents and develops contingency plans and disaster recovery procedures.