Senior Threat Analyst
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A NYC agency located in Brooklyn, NY is looking for a Senior Threat Analyst to support their Security Operations Center. Work Mode: onsite work in Brooklyn. Night shifts will typically occur between the hours of 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM. The night SOC analyst position will include weekend shifts as well. The position requires a total of 35 hours per week. Pay Rate Range: $67.00 - $74.00 (based on experience) Job Description: • Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing 24x7x365 coverage at the City's Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift schedules including days, nights, weekends, and holidays. • Interface with Cyber teams internally, with various City agencies, vendors, and information-sharing partners. • Monitor City networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise, and anomalous behavior; apply mitigation techniques or escalation factors; correlate threat intelligence across various logs collected by established security controls. • Produce routine SOC metrics & reporting. • Maintain situation reports (SITREPS) • Perform weekly quality control checks. • Works closely with SOC Director on incident preparation including the continuous development of new SOC playbooks and runbooks. Mandatory Skills & Experience: • Candidate must be willing to work days, nights and/or weekends depending on coverage or critical incident response needs • Minimum 8 years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment. • For this senior position, leadership skills are a must, including the ability to lead and mentor junior analysts, coordinate team activities, and manage SOC operations effectively. • Prior experience working in a SOC environment is mandatory. This includes familiarity with SOC operations, procedures, and tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools. Desirable Skills and Experience: • Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and procedures • Strong understanding of network and host technologies • Experience applying techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusion using IDS methods and technologies. • Experience with SIEM technologies, malware analysis and mitigation techniques • Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation) • Interpret information collected by diagnostic network tools (Netflow, security event logs, IDS systems, etc.) • Ability to investigate and solve complex problems. • Excellent communication skills are crucial for effectively communicating security incidents, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including SOC Director and senior management. • Threat Hunting: Proactive threat hunting capabilities to identify and investigate potential security threats or anomalies within the environment before they escalate into incidents. • Incident Response: Experience in incident response procedures and methodologies, including the ability to analyze security incidents, contain threats, mitigate risks, and recover from security breaches effectively and efficiently.