Associate Analyst

Job Profile:

We are searching for a SOC Associate who will be responsible for monitoring, reporting, and escalating events to our SOC Analysts. The primary function of this position is to monitor the analytics tools and perform alert management and initial incident qualification.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Acknowledge, analyse and validate incidents triggered from correlated events through SIEM solution.
• Acknowledge, analyse and validate incidents received through other reporting mechanisms such as email, phone calls, management directions, etc.
• Collection of necessary logs that could help in the incident containment and security investigation.
• Escalate validated and confirmed incidents to SOC Analyst.
• Undertake first stages of false positive and false negative analysis.
• Track and update incidents and requests based on clients updates and analysis results.
• Properly log client requests and change requests in SecurityHQ.
• Report infrastructure issues to the SHQ support team.
• Report false positive alarms from EDR and SIEM to L2 SOC analysts.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors in Computer Science/IT/Electronics Engineering, M.C.A. or equivalent University degree
• Minimum of 0- 1 year of experience in the IT security industry, preferably working in a SOC/NOC environment
• Certifications: CCNA, CEH