L2 SOC Analyst

Level 2 CyberSOC Analyst

Title:                                                                    Level 2 CyberSOC Analyst

Job type:                                                             Full-Time Permanent

Salary:                                                                Negotiable / DOE

About Us

Integrity360 is a leading independent cybersecurity and PCI specialist operating across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. The company has office locations in Ireland, the UK, France, Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Lithuania, Ukraine, Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada, supported by six Security Operations Centres (SOCs) located in Dublin, Sofia, Madrid, Stockholm, Rome, and Cape Town.

With over 780 employees, including more than 585 dedicated cybersecurity professionals, Integrity360 delivers a full suite of professional, support, and managed security services. These span the complete cyber risk lifecycle, from identification and prevention to detection, response, and recovery. Integrity360 supports over 3000 mid-market and enterprise organisations across sectors including financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and utilities.

At Integrity360, people come first. We invest heavily in learning, development and progression, fostering a dynamic culture where innovation, collaboration and continuous growth are at the heart of what we do. If you're ready to take your cyber security career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you. 

Job Role / Responsibilities

In this role you will be expected to analyse a range of alerts and incidents, identifying threats and attacks performed by Threat Actors ranging from cyber criminals, ATPs, and Nation States. You will leverage various threat intelligence streams to enhance your understanding of emerging threats and vulnerabilities used by Threat Actors, providing customers with your insight and experience. You will act as a core investigator for security incidents and alerts, escalating to senior SOC staff when a true positive has been identified. A successful security analyst will verify security events as security incidents; correlate and collate the information; and effectively escalate their findings and recommendations internally, or to the customer.

The role requires flexibility and the ability to work as part of a wider shift pattern, additionally, there may be an on-call aspect required. A good knowledge of Information Security is required for this role. Proactive client services, such as compromise assessments and evaluating and recommending tools and technology for incident response are also in scope. Demonstration of a strong comprehension of malware, emerging threats and adversary TTPs will be critical to success.

This role contributes also to the development of Operational Technology (OT) security monitoring, as part of the integration of industrial environments into our Global SOC model.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities include:

• Analyse security alerts and incidents, following defined investigation processes to determine the risk they present and impact to customers.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis of varied logs, identifying anomalies in customer environments.
• Perform in-depth investigation on confirmed security incidents, assisting senior SOC analysts to mitigate threats.
• Identify threats, perform mitigating actions to contain and eradicate threats in the environment.
• Identify and document tuning opportunities for senior SOC analysts to perform
• Assist in the report creation process, performing enriching queries and investigations to help produce a high quality incident report for core stakeholders.
• Assist in development of varied customer reports such as Emerging Threat reports, Incident Response reports, consistent MDR reports.
• Assist in CSOC continuous improvement and development initiative to maintain and improve core processes, SOPs, and documentation.
• Assist in monitoring alerts related to OT / industrial environments, following defined processes.
• Support investigation of incidents involving industrial systems or OT-related activity.
• Analyse anomalies in industrial network traffic or asset behavior, with guidance from senior analysts.
• Contribute to incident enrichment in IT/OT convergence scenarios.
• Escalate complex OT-related cases to Level 3 analysts as required.
• Work in close collaboration with the Group’s OT Security Practice, leveraging their expertise for OT-related cases.

Desired Skills

• Experience working with security event detection tools like IPS, SIEM, DLP, Anti-virus, etc.
• Ability to perform event correlation, host/ network threat analysis.
• Ability to manage multiple incidents and make effective decisions under high pressure environment.  
• Experience in performing analysis on network pcaps and documents for malicious activity or codes.  
• Conceptual knowledge in Networks and Network Security.
• Understanding of Network infrastructure hardware and protocols (TCP/IP, switches, bridges, routers, proxy servers, VPN concentrators).
• Understanding of Security protocols (IPSec), and encryption technologies (3DES, AES, SHA2, TLS).
• Understanding of basic security principles such as Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity.
• Familiar with security best practices.
• A process of on-going certification for the benefit of the business and for self-development is encouraged .
• Review the adequacy of the security controls and their ability to protect the information system and its information.
• Experience with Splunk is a plus.
• Experience using SIEM & IPS solutions is a plus.
• Strong Microsoft Word & Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Basic understanding or strong interest in Operational Technology (OT) environments.
• Awareness of industrial systems such as SCADA, DCS, PLCs and HMIs.
• Exposure to industrial protocols or networks is a plus.
• Willingness to learn and develop skills in OT security monitoring.

 Certifications/Qualifications

• Security industry certifications: SEC+, CYSA+, Net+, SC-200,AZ-500,AZ-900,Splunk Power user
• A working knowledge of Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), SIEM, SOAR & DLP is a nice to have.
• Experience working with threat hunting tools is nice to have.
• Interest in pursuing OT-related training or certifications is encouraged.

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