Tier 3 SOC Analyst

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Base pay range

$55.00/hr - $60.00/hr
Job Description

The Cyber Security Senior Analyst will help the team perform Security Operations Center (SOC) duties, including incident response, malware analysis, and monitoring. Responsibilities include:

• Conducting threat analysis, assessment, and malware analysis to support security investigations and incident response.

• Leading investigations into security incidents escalated from lower-tier SOC analysts.

• Providing technical mentorship to Tier 1 and Tier 2 SOC analysts.

• Conducting root cause analysis and identifying containment and remediation actions.

• Researching attacker tools, tactics, and procedures (TTP) in indicators of compromise (IOCs).

• Building internal scripts, tools, and automation processes to enhance detection and response.

• Collaborating with technical and business teams on SOC initiatives as the SME.

• Conducting threat hunting activities.

• Developing and maintaining SOC runbooks and documentation.

• Participating in security audits and assessments.

• Providing after-hour support and participating in on-call rotations.
  Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, or related field.

• 5+ years experience in SOC or incident response roles.

• Strong knowledge of incident response methodologies (e.g., NIST 800-61).

• Experience handling complex security incidents.

• Knowledge in incident response, host forensics, malware analysis, container security, network analysis, Insider Threat, alert tuning, and trend analysis.

• Experience with cloud security in Azure, AWS, GCP.

• Familiarity with security tools like Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Microsoft Defender, firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.

• Understanding of security concepts such as malware, phishing, Defense-in-Depth, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain.

• Knowledge of Windows, Linux, Mac OS.

• Proficiency with query languages (KQL, SPL) and scripting languages (Bash, Power

Shell, Python).

• Experience with security orchestration, automation, and response tools.

• Effective communication skills.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Ability to stay calm under pressure.

• Knowledge of security frameworks like ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST.

• Experience with forensic analysis of network logs and security data.

• Experience with cloud security posture management (CSPM).
  Seniority level

Mid-Senior level
Employment type

Contract
Job function

Analyst
Industries

Retail

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