Tier 3 SOC Analyst

This range is provided by Insight Global. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$55.00/hr - $60.00/hr

Job Description

The Cyber Security Senior Analyst will help the team perform Security Operations Center (SOC) duties, including incident response, malware analysis, and monitoring. Responsibilities include:

• Conducting threat analysis, assessment, and malware analysis to support security investigations and incident response.
• Leading investigations into security incidents escalated from lower-tier SOC analysts.
• Providing technical mentorship to Tier 1 and Tier 2 SOC analysts.
• Conducting root cause analysis and identifying containment and remediation actions.
• Researching attacker tools, tactics, and procedures (TTP) in indicators of compromise (IOCs).
• Building internal scripts, tools, and automation processes to enhance detection and response.
• Collaborating with technical and business teams on SOC initiatives as the SME.
• Conducting threat hunting activities.
• Developing and maintaining SOC runbooks and documentation.
• Participating in security audits and assessments.
• Providing after-hour support and participating in on-call rotations.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in SOC or incident response roles.
• Strong knowledge of incident response methodologies (e.g., NIST 800-61).
• Experience handling complex security incidents.
• Knowledge in incident response, host forensics, malware analysis, container security, network analysis, Insider Threat, alert tuning, and trend analysis.
• Experience with cloud security in Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Familiarity with security tools like Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Microsoft Defender, firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.
• Understanding of security concepts such as malware, phishing, Defense-in-Depth, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain.
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
• Proficiency with query languages (KQL, SPL) and scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with security orchestration, automation, and response tools.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Knowledge of security frameworks like ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST.
• Experience with forensic analysis of network logs and security data.
• Experience with cloud security posture management (CSPM).

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Analyst

Industries

Retail

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