As a MDR Enhanced Threat Analyst, your primary role will be to perform security threat analysis of various malware and web attacks, tuning a customer wide event stream consisting of events from all major security platforms and working with customers to remediate security related issues based on operational needs.
What You Will Do
- Review security-related events via cases and assess their risk and validity based on available telemetry from network, endpoint, and global threat intelligence information to provide customers with concise, detailed, and well-written incident reports, root causes identification, and remediation recommendations
- Provide customers with understandable context around their security environment and threats
- Interface with customers to address their issues, concerns, and questions, and drive to satisfactory closure any issues that impact the service and its value
- Work with customer and internal Sophos incident response teams to resolve ongoing intrusions, malware outbreaks, and other security incidents
- Use the Sophos platform to proactivity hunt for and investigate activity within the customer environment
- Review security-related events via investigations and assess their risk and validity based on available telemetry from network, endpoint, and global threat intelligence information to provide customers with concise, detailed, and well-written incident reports, root causes identification, and remediation recommendations
- Provide customers with understandable context around their security environment and threats
- Interface with customers to address their issues, concerns, and questions, and drive to satisfactory closure any issues that impact the service and its value
- Work with customer and internal Sophos incident response teams to resolve ongoing intrusions, malware outbreaks, and other security incidents
What You Will Bring
- At least 3 years of experience working in a SOC environment or computer security team in an IT environment
- Endpoint and network security experience required; IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, Malware defenses and monitoring experience
- Experience with threat hunting
- Experience administering and supporting Windows and Unix bases Operating Systems, including both workstations and servers
- Knowledge of common adversary tactics and techniques, e.g., obfuscation, persistence, defense evasion, etc.
- Fundamental understanding of network traffic analysis including TCP/IP, routing, switching, protocols, etc.
- Strong understanding of Windows event log analysis
- Experience with basic Python scripts (reading and understanding)
- Working knowledge of incident response procedures
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical thinking skills
- Must be able to thrive within a team environment as well as on an individual basis
- Customer service-oriented with strong documentation and communication skills
- Passion for all things information technology and information security
- Natural curiosity and ability to learn new skills quickly
- Ability to think outside the box
- Innovative mindset and driven to contribute to a team providing a best-in-class cybersecurity service
- Bachelors in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field; or relevant commensurate work experience
- Willingness to participate in rotating weekend and holiday coverage (our MDR service is 24x7x365)
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Experience with enterprise information security data management - SIEM experience
- Experience with CQL query construction
- Experience with OS Query Programming and scripting skills - knowledge of PowerShell
- Relevant Cyber Security certifications (CompTIA, SANS)
Desirable
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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