Security Operations Center Analyst

Booz Allen Hamilton•Fayetteville, NC

2d•$99,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Security Operations Center Analyst, you’re in the middle of the action, responding to and mitigating threats in real time. You’re the first line of cyber defense for your organization, and they look to you for guidance on best practices and security measures. We need an SOC analyst like you to help us secure critical infrastructure from the constant onslaught of cyberattacks for our client. As an SOC Analyst on our team, you’ll monitor and analyze threats, using state-of-the-art tools. You’ll work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. You’ll analyze incidents to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts. You’ll combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments from recent events, and identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding. This is a great opportunity to hone your cybersecurity skills with hands-on experience in threat assessment and incident response. Work with us as we secure our client from malicious actors. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

Experience with incident response tasks such as step identification within the IR process, remediation of security incidents that could have potential impact, and ongoing investigations
Knowledge of basic IT forensics
Ability to learn tier 1 SOC analyst duties and responsibilities
Ability to support 24/7 operations via a shift work schedule
TS/SCI clearance
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience with Elastic or Splunk
Experience with threat hunting
Experience with system administration

Responsibilities

Monitor and analyze threats using state-of-the-art tools.
Understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly.
Restore operations and limit the impact of threats.
Analyze incidents to determine the number of affected systems.
Assist recovery efforts.
Combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments from recent events to identify patterns and understand attackers' goals.
Perform incident response tasks such as step identification within the IR process.
Remediate security incidents that could have potential impact.
Conduct ongoing investigations.
Support 24/7 operations via a shift work schedule.