Greetings!
This is Rakesh from MSRCOSMOS LLC.
We are one of the leading staffing agency in North America. I am reaching out to check your availability for the below role. Please review the job description and let me know if you are interested to submit your resume. You can share your resume to
Job Title: SOC Analyst/Engineer
Location: Alameda CA (Onsite)
Long term contract
Experience:
- Extensive experience in Palo Alto Cortex XDR and a deep understanding and practical application of XQL queries is required.
- Extensive experience in a SOC environment with a strong background in threat detection incident
- response and threat hunting.
- Experience with threat intelligence platforms and integrating threat intelligence feeds to security tools to enrich threat detection.
- Experience in proactive threat hunting to identify and neutralize emerging threats.
- Experience or working knowledge of cloud network and application security.
- Experience in Biotech/Pharma is a plus.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Proficiency with SOC tools and technologies such as SIEM (Splunk) EDR (Cortex) and IDS/IPS (e.g. Snort
- Suricata).
- Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python PowerShell) to automate tasks enhance detection capabilities and develop automation through a SOAR platform.
- Ability to configure and finetune security tools to maximize their effectiveness by integrating various log
- sources and data feeds to enhance visibility and detection.
- Ability to work with various data sources to create highfidelity alerting.
- Knowledge of machine learning and behavioral analytics to identify anomalies and potential threats.
- Ability to develop and refine correlation rules within SIEM to detect complex attack patterns leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Strong analytical skills to correlate events and make informed decisions based on data.
- Ability to analyze user behaviors and network traffic to detect suspicious activities.
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with security vendors.
- Extensive knowledge of DNS network protocols firewalls VPNs web application firewalls email security
- IPS/IDS SIEM DLP cryptography application whitelisting and endpoint protection
- Excellent communication skills.
- Resourceful and proactive to find innovative solutions to challenges.
- A mindset focused on continuous learning and improvement.
- Outstanding judgment and problemsolving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Ability to work in a team environment create timelines and continually make necessary adjustments.
Thanks & Regards
Rakesh Reddy
Sr. Talent Acquisition Executive