Cyber Defense Specialist, Senior

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Information Security team is looking for a certified security professional to join our fast paced, highly 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 our customers from adverse cyber events. The Cyber Defense Specialist, Senior will report to the Senior Manager of Information Security Operations. In this role you will utilize industry leading technology to detect, respond, and recover from advanced attacks and apply root cause analysis and lessons learned to proactively protect against known adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, prevent impact of our customer’s assets, and control recurrence of incidents.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have practical knowledge of project management.
• Typically, requires a college degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• GCIH certification preferred
• CISSP certification preferred
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Incident Response

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced network intrusion monitoring of and response including performing security incident risk assessment and severity declaration
• Perform expert level endpoint detection and response (EDR)
• Analyze application and web security events
• Interpret logs for expert level threat hunting 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
• Respond and facilitate tier-3 incident management; mobilize security incident response team (SIRT) of key stakeholders; communicate and notify at all levels of the organization; perform post-incident activity involving root cause analysis (RCA) and lesson learned assessments and identify owners of correction action plans (CAP)
• Formulation of security operation incident response plan, operational procedures, desk level procedures, and operational level agreements
• Yield security compliance evidence of NIST 800-53 controls

What This Job Offers

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