Shift RequirementThis is a Monday through Friday day shift position
How You'll Make an Impact:- 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.
What you'll Bring:- 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
Bonus:- 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
For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks.
