SOC Specialist – Ireland

Role Overview:

We are seeking a senior-level, highly accomplished SOC Analyst with deep expertise in incident response and a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional security initiatives. We are looking for advanced experience in threat mitigation and threat hunting, along with strong capabilities in security automation and cloud security across modern enterprise environments.
As a SOC Analyst, you will play a pivotal role within McAfee’s SOC, serving as the first line of defense. Utilizing an array of defensive tools, you will conduct thorough analyses, fortify security controls, and spearhead cross-functional team efforts. With a strong customer-centric approach, you will ensure a secure and resilient workspace for McAfee’s workforce.
The position is based in Ireland preferably in either Dublin or Cork. You may be required to be onsite and on-call on an as-needed basis. We are only considering candidates currently in Ireland within a commutable distance from either locations and we are not offering relocation assistance at this time.

About the Role:

• Work cross functionally to resolve security incidents, to improve security posture of McAfee’s infrastructure.
• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources to gain situational awareness to detect, confirm, contain, remediate, and recover from cyber-attacks.
• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information; Perform root cause analysis to determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for intrusions.
• Notify SOC managers and cyber incident responders of suspected cyber incidents in accordance with the cyber incident response plan and procedures
• Exercise user-oriented approach while handling security incidents to ensure that user impact is minimized as much as possible, and the situation is well articulated to users.
• Document ongoing incidents, after action reports and escalate incidents
• Provide cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor external data sources to maintain currency of cyber defense threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise.
• Support Incident Response efforts - evidence collection, documentation, communications, and reporting.
• Responsible for the enforcement of corporate information security policies to protect McAfee's information assets and intellectual property.
• Lead or contribute to security risk assessments that determine threats, consequences, and vulnerabilities to key assets, products, and services.
• Recommend and drive additional security controls to meet current and future needs.

About You:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role.
• Solid critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Experience leading efforts during one or more phases of Incident Response lifecycle.
• Application of cybersecurity principles and risk management basics to mitigate risk.
• Experience leading & collaborating with multiple teams to drive improvements and resolutions.
• Cloud security monitoring – detection and response (AWS, GCP and Azure)
• Application security.
• DDOS protection.
• AWS Cloud security.
• Threat intelligence.
• Endpoint security – CrowdStrike.
• You are willing to work on-call and during weekends rotational.

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Company Overview

McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We’re proud to be Great Place to Work® Certified in 10 countries, a reflection of the supportive, empowering environment we’ve built where people feel seen, valued, and energized to reach their full potential and thrive.

We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Bonus Program
• Pension and Retirement Plans
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why McAfee prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.