Security Analyst - Contract

Roles & Responsibilities: • Continuously monitor and analyse security events and alerts from various sources, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, network security, and other security infrastructure. • Investigate and respond to security incidents, including complex and high-severity cybersecurity events. • Conduct detailed analysis of security events, logs, network traffic, endpoint activities, and other relevant security data to determine the severity, impact, scope, and root cause of incidents. • Perform advanced incident investigation and determine appropriate containment, eradication, recovery, and remediation actions. • Conduct threat hunting activities to proactively identify suspicious activities, indicators of compromise (IOCs), attacker behaviours, and potential security threats. • Develop and utilize threat-hunting queries and techniques to identify emerging threats and malicious activities. • Analyse and correlate information from multiple security sources to identify attack patterns, anomalies, and potential security incidents. • Perform analysis of malware, suspicious files, URLs, domains, IP addresses, and other indicators of compromise where required. • Analyse threat intelligence and security research to identify emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and indicators that may affect the organisation or its customers. • Apply recognised cybersecurity frameworks and methodologies, including MITRE ATT&CK, during security investigations and threat analysis. • Develop, maintain, and improve SIEM correlation rules, detection rules, dashboards, alerts, and security monitoring use cases. • Assist in tuning and optimizing security tools and detection mechanisms to improve detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and enhance overall SOC capabilities. • Identify gaps in existing security monitoring and recommend improvements to security tools, processes, procedures, and detection capabilities. • Coordinate with IT, network, infrastructure, application, and other technical teams to facilitate timely investigation, containment, and remediation of security incidents. • Participate in the management and response of major or critical security incidents and provide technical recommendations to relevant stakeholders. • Conduct root cause analysis and post-incident reviews and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence of security incidents. • Prepare and maintain detailed incident reports, investigation findings, root cause analysis, remediation recommendations, and other security documentation. • Develop and maintain incident response procedures, playbooks, investigation guides, and SOC operational documentation. • Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to SOC team members to improve investigation and incident-handling capabilities. • Participate in regular SOC meetings, cybersecurity training, tabletop exercises, knowledge-sharing sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, security technologies, and industry best practices. • Perform other cybersecurity and SOC-related duties and responsibilities as assigned by management. Key Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • Candidate MUST have 7 or more years of experience on overall cybersecurity incident response with 4+ years specifically on security usecase design, development, coding. • Experience in SIEM on ELK(Elastic Logstash Kibana) stack is a plus • Professional credentials in one of the relevant IT Security disciplines is a plus (SANS / CISSP / OSCP) • Experience in common scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL is a plus • Experience with Security Operations Centre (SOC) structure and incident response lifecycle (detection → analysis → containment → recovery → reporting) • Hands-on experience with SIEM tools (e.g., LogRhythm, ELK, Splunk equivalent) – log monitoring, alert review, dashboard usage • Experience in log analysis and threat detection concepts (Windows logs, firewall logs, authentication logs, etc.) • Cybersecurity technologies such as PAM, EDR, XDR, SOAR, IDS/IPS, WAF, DLP (conceptual knowledge acceptable) • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, ports, firewalls) • Exposure to cloud or platform security concepts (AWS/Azure/GCP basics acceptable) • Ability to perform research on cybersecurity best practices and produce process/procedural documentation • Willingness to support rostered weekend/night operations Savita Rai EA REG NO: R1873418 EA License No:23C2060 Disclaimer: The company is committed to ensuring the privacy and security of your information. 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