L2 SOC Analyst (m/f/d)

A semi-government entity in Saudi Arabia, specializing in advanced technology solutions and services. The organization is currently seeking a L2 SOC Analyst to join their team and support their active project.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct initial investigation of security incidents.
• Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the Incident Response process.
• Communicate directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents.
• Hunt for suspicious anomalous activity based on data alerts or outputs from various toolsets like SIEM, EDR, etc.
• Perform analysis of log files.
• Provide first responder forensics analysis and investigation.
• Drive containment strategy during data loss or breach events.
• Triage and resolve advanced vector attacks such as botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
• Tune IDS, proxy policy, in-line malware tools based on threat feeds, trust and reputation data, incidents, or vulnerabilities and exploits of downstream systems.
• Provide tuning recommendations to administrators based on findings during investigations or threat information reviews.
  
  

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of network security zones, firewall configurations, IDS policies.
• Understanding of systems communications from Layer 1 to 7.
• Experience with systems administration, middleware, and application administration.
• Experience with network and network security tools administration.
• Knowledge of log formats and ability to aggregate and parse log data for syslog, http logs, DB logs for investigation purposes.
• In-depth experience with log search tools such as Splunk, usage of regular expressions and natural language queries.
• In-depth knowledge of packet capture and analysis.
• Experience with security assessment tools (NMAP, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat, etc.).
• Experience with EDR tools to carry out incident detection and response.
• Ability to create a containment strategy and execute.
  
  

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L2 SOC Analyst in Dammam, Saudi Arabia