SOC Analyst
Category: Cyber Security
Main location: United Kingdom, England - South East, Reading
Position ID: J0223-1770
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description:
If you have an inquisitive nature and enjoy security technology, research, and learning, this role will put you at the forefront of CGI Cyber Security Service. The Security Operations Centre is a fast-paced environment that is flexible and adaptable to the threat landscape we face. The SOC utilises both tried and tested tooling and state-of-the-art technologies to ensure we provide the best level of service and protection to our prestigious list of clients.
This role is based onsite and office attendance will be required. Due to the nature of the work, we can accept UK Nationals only for this vacancy, and the role involves working on a shift pattern basis.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
You will be highly motivated, with a good IT background, and have a desire to work in Cyber Security with some previous experience of working within a SOC environment. It is expected that you will have a solid background in IT infrastructure with an understanding of computer networking and server architecture, ready to take the next step in Cyber Security.
This role involves providing eyes-on-glass monitoring to a variety of clients to ensure that organisations are protected against cyber threats. The role will require someone with an analytical mindset and a keen eye for detail to investigate alerts, piece together information to build a bigger picture, and provide suitable remediation steps for customers.
This role involves:
1. Detection, monitoring, and analysis of security incidents.
2. Production of the monthly service reports.
3. Assist Senior Analysts to perform network/system/application/log intrusion detection analysis.
4. Assist Senior Analysts to ensure that Service Level Agreements are met and assist in the maintenance of SOC documentation.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
We're looking for a range of the following skills and experiences:
* Have an inquisitive nature and enjoy security technology research and learning.
* Characteristics of a team player, good time-management, organisational, troubleshooting, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
* Understanding of networking principles including TCP/IP, WANs, LANs, and commonly used Internet protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, FTP, POP, LDAP.
* Ability to deal with aggressive timelines and the associated pressure.
* Ability to speak and communicate effectively with peers and management.
* Previous experience within a SOC focused role.
Desirable skills and experiences:
Any of the following would be useful, but not essential:
* Experience in security compliance auditing and remediation.
* Knowledge of SIEM Solutions (ArcSight, Splunk, TippingPoint, Huntsman, FortiAnalyzer).
* Knowledge of Firewall & VPN technologies (Checkpoint, Cisco, Juniper).
* Knowledge of IPS vendors (SourceFire, Cisco, IBM, TrendMicro, Fortigate, F5).
* Knowledge of strong authentication such as two-factor authentication tokens, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), endpoint security tools such as HIPS, personal firewalls, anti-virus, anti-malware, and web application firewalls.
Skills:
* Dev/Tools Infrastructure Support
* Network Security
* Security Infrastructure Support
* Security Operations Center
What you can expect from us:
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