Cyber Defense Specialist, Experienced

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Information Security team is looking for a certified security professional to join our fast paced, collaborative, and diverse team of talent. Our mission is to provide operationally excellent next-generation information security event monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response services that protect Blue Shield from adverse cyber events. The Cyber Defense Specialist, Experienced will report to the Senior Manager of Information Security Operations. In this role you will work with a high-functioning 24/7/365 team utilizing industry leading technology to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from adversary attacks.

Requirements

• Requires practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• Typically, requires a college degree or equivalent experience and 3 years of prior relevant experience.
• Requires security industry certification.
• Security event monitoring and incident response.
• Security Information Event Management (SIEM) searching.
• Intrusion detection and network tools; Wireshark, Nmap.
• Anti-virus and malware detection.
• Social engineering and phishing detection.
• Identity & Access Management.

Responsibilities

• Provide network intrusion monitoring and response.
• Perform endpoint detection and response (EDR).
• Analyze application and web security events.
• Interpret logs to identify and respond to indicators of compromise (IOCs) and threats including User and Event Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) using a security information and event management (SIEM) environment.
• Perform incident response containment.
• Utilize Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) of information security incidents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level