Description
SOC Analyst II
Location: Atlanta, GA
Position Type: Direct Hire
Founded in 1932, our client is a cooperative bank offering competitively priced financing options and community development grants. They are committed to recruiting talented and innovative individuals who have the vision, skills, background, and desire to succeed in a challenging environment. They offer generous employee benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, 401K matching, flexible hours, and on-site gym and café.
They are currently seeking a Tier II SOC Analyst for a long-term contract.
The Tier II SOC Analyst position is responsible for monitoring the host, network, data, and application technologies for potential intrusions or other negative network security events. This position has the primary responsibility for reviewing alerts from the various security platforms in the environment, reporting potential incidents for further investigation, and working to facilitate investigations with the security team by gathering and reporting on data events. The review and action steps require a strong analytical mind that can take a security alert and investigate it across many systems.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and investigate security-related, information systems' anomalies based on security platform reporting, network traffic, log files, host-based and automated security alerts
- Review, record, and action alerts from network and host-based security platforms such as:
- Network-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
- Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) platform
- Endpoint protection
- Firewall and network access controls lists
- Web and E-mail Proxy and filtering systems
- Document investigation of security events
- Conduct research on emerging security threats
- Provide response support as needed for information security related events/investigations
- Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation and develop ad-hoc reports such as activity statistics
- Assist the development of security tool requirements, evaluations, as well as security operations procedures and processes
- Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with security and engineering team members
- Monitor threat intelligence from internal and external sources to identify new methods of attack and evaluate potential remediation plans
- Provide off-hours support on an infrequent, but as needed basis
- Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team and information sharing environment
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 3 to 4 years of experience in monitoring security tools, such as tier 1 or tier 2 analyst within a security operations center
- Understanding of network and security concepts such as OSI and TCP/IP model, operating systems and the CIA triad
- Experience with network protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, FTPS, SFTP, SNMP, SMTP, SSH, SSL, RDP, and SIP
- Hands-on experience with tools including IDS/IPS, SIEM, and web filtering solutions
- Utilize tools to perform packet analysis
- Understand web attack methods such as Cross Site Scripting attacks (XSS) and SQL Injection
- Strong technical writing, documentation, and communication skills are required
For immediate consideration, please forward all resumes to (see below) or call.
Synergis serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years.
For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.
Synergis is an Equal Opportunity employer.