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InfoSec Operations Analyst

SANTA ANA-92712, CA, US
05/01/2020

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Required Skills

Unix operating systems

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

Job Description

INFOSEC OPERATIONS ANALYST

Santa Ana, CA

5+ months contract

ICS is helping a Client add to their growing InfoSec team in Santa Ana. In the Analyst role within the Security Operations Center (SOC), you will work alongside security engineers and SOC managers who are responsible for ensuring the protection of digital assets from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, or destruction both online and on-premise.

SOC Analyst’s primary responsibility is to identify, secure, and weed out the threats as front-line defense personnel as they alert and apply aggressive filter to quickly identify suspicious activity and mitigate risks before any incident occur.

In coordination with other departments, you will work on identifying and correcting flaws in existing processes, systems, programs, and solutions while recommending measures to improve the overall security posture.

The SOC is also responsible for operating and supporting enterprise security tools.

What You’ll Do:

Monitor security access and report suspicious activity to a higher level or team members

Conduct security assessments regularly to identify vulnerabilities and performing risk analysis.

Analyze the breach to reach the root cause.

Generate reports for IT administrators, business managers, and security leaders.

These reports serve as an input to evaluate the efficacy of the security policies.

Advise and implement necessary changes required to counter the attack or improvise security posture.

Perform operational activities on security tools and contribute to tuning and security strategies.

Document incidents to contribute to incident response and disaster recovery plans.

Perform internal and external security audits.

Conduct risk assessments, interviewing internal and external customers, to gain technical knowledge of security/compliance requirements.

Maintain firewall access control policies Provide technical support/troubleshooting for security services.

Fulfill security service requests including but not limited to firewall rule changes, web filtering exceptions and encryption/decryption policy updates.

Is part of an on-call rotation schedule to provide incident response and project support.

Skills/Experience You’ll Need:

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Security, Telecommunications
or equivalent work experience required.

2+ years of experience with the following:

Experience with security incident response handling

Logging and monitoring: SIEM and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Endpoint security: AntiVirus, DLP and host compliance scan

Network security: IPS/IDS, traditional and next-gen firewalls, cloud security group, decryption

Data Protection: encryption/decryption, HSM, KMS, DLP

Windows and Unix operating systems

Cloud Security, infrastructure and cloud native services

Networking, network protocols and network services

CISSP and/or GIAC certifications