SOC (Security Operations Center) Analyst in Huntsville,

Deloitte - Huntsville, AL

Full-time

Huntsville, AL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Are you looking to elevate your cyber career? Your technical skills? Your opportunity for growth? Deloitte's Government and Public Services Cyber Practice (GPS Cyber Practice) is the place for you! Our GPS Cyber Practice helps organizations create a cyber-minded culture and become stronger, faster, and more innovative. You will become part of a team that advises, implements, and manages solutions across five verticals: Strategy, Defense and Response; Identity; Infrastructure; Data; and Application Security. Our dynamic team offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge cyber security tools and grow both vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate. Join our cyber team and elevate your career. In this role, you will analyze technical solutions to help clients identify and evaluate security gaps in industrial control systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT). You will assist in the implementation and projects from initiation to completion alongside the SOC Requirements Lead and SOC Manager. Additionally, you will assist in building the SOC and later provide analyst support once it is established. You will work closely with other workstreams, including OT SMEs, Infrastructure Team, and Analytics Team, to determine monitoring solutions, performance thresholds, and visualization capabilities. Your responsibilities will also include responding to OT/ICS security incidents and escalations by collecting and analyzing data, while gathering digital evidence to ensure incidents are handled within the scope of the playbooks and standard operating procedures. You will actively monitor multiple data points and SIEM to identify potential security issues for remediation, triage activities, and escalation to team lead, continuing to work with relevant case managers. Furthermore, you will participate in creating and providing updates to the standard operating procedures, playbooks, and other similar documentation for continuous improvement of security operations and efficiencies. Leading and generating end-of-shift reports and after-action reports for documentation, knowledge transfer, and future contributions to playbooks and knowledge retention will also be part of your duties. You will create and maintain metric reporting (KPI's/KRI) for senior management reporting and actively review closed cases, open cases, and threat intelligence to make recommendations for preventative controls to reduce threats to an environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze technical solutions to help clients identify and evaluate security gaps in industrial control systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT).
• Assist in the implementation and projects from initiation to completion alongside the SOC Requirements Lead and SOC Manager.
• Assist in building the SOC and later provide analyst support once stood up.
• Work closely with other workstreams to include OT SMEs, Infrastructure Team, Analytics Team, etc. to determine monitoring solutions, performance thresholds, visualization capabilities.
• Work with our Infrastructure Team and SIEM, SOAR, Workflow SMEs to analyze these solutions.
• Respond to OT/ICS security incidents and escalations by collecting and analyzing data, while gathering digital evidence to ensure incidents are handled within the scope of the playbooks and standard operating procedures.
• Actively monitor multiple data points and SIEM to identify potential security issues for remediation, triage activities, and escalation to team lead and continued work with relevant case managers.
• Actively participate in creating and providing updates to the standard operating procedures, playbooks, and other similar documentation for continuous improvement of security operations and efficiencies.
• Lead and generate end of shift reports/after action reports for documentation, knowledge transfer, and future contribution to playbooks and knowledge retention.
• Create and maintain metric reporting (KPI's/KRI) for senior management reporting.
• Actively review closed cases, open cases, and threat intelligence to make recommendations for preventative controls to reduce threats to an environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Active Secret Security Clearance required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Must have 8570 requirements required for the position category or specialty and level (i.e. CEH, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, Cloud+, SCYBER, PenTest+).
• Advanced knowledge in incident response, vulnerability management, analytics, reconnaissance, security intelligence, automation/scripting experience or know how to troubleshoot existing scripts with little guidance.
• Familiarity with malware and attack techniques.
• Understanding of Information Technology vs Operational Technology security challenges.
• Interest or working knowledge of Operational Technology/Industrial Control System (OT/ICS).
• Experience with workflow management, analytic capabilities, Security Information Event Management (SIEM), SOC disciplines, and vulnerability tools (Splunk, ServiceNow, VirusTotal, RiskIQ).
• Ability to recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful attempts to exfiltrate data/intrusion attempts and compromises through reviews of available logging and relevant event detail and summary information.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in standing up a SOC and building out procedures for SOC day to day work.
• Advanced knowledge of network traffic monitoring for security events to perform triage analysis and identify security incidents while knowing when to escalate based on escalation criteria.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, detail oriented, and ability to work as an individual contributor and with a team.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Experience in mentorship, training, and guiding junior members of a SOC team.