Senior Analyst - SOC Monitoring OT Cybersecurity

TALENTMATE Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

The Security Operations Centre team at CPX is a cross functional Operations/Engineering team involved at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the SecOps communication, collaboration, and integration method. The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for leading security monitoring efforts, analyzing various log sources, responding to security incidents, and enhancing the overall security operations program within elements of CPX/Client technology.

• Validate the incidents escalated by Tier 1 SOC Security Analysts.
• Perform second level of threat assessment and determine which security issues may impact organization services and information.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across wide variety of data sets (e.g., indications and warnings).
• Provide recommendations for incident handling, and security monitoring and validation of physical security.
• Identify weaknesses in software, hardware and networks.
• Analyze and communicate with stakeholders the threats associated with every incident.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to validate network alerts.
• Conduct analysis of log files, evidence and other information to determine best methods for identifying attackers.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources. Monitor external data sources (e.g., Threat Intelligence sources, Dubai AE CERT teams) to maintain SIEM content, tuning, reports and dashboards.
• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal and interpersonal.
• Strong team player with a customer service orientation, ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures.
• Ethical, honest, fair and with high integrity.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills required.
• Exhibits ownership of projects and assigned tasks.
• Has an in depth understanding of the incident response process, analysis, alerts, rules, etc.
• Highly analytical, strong problem solving skills and ability to thrive in an energetic, fast paced, high growth security team environment.

• Related security certifications (e.g., CCNA, Network+, Security+, CISSP, CISM, GICSP, GCIH, GCIA, GRID).
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in one or more of the following: skilled in identifying trends and patterns from analyzing host based and network based security logs.
• Familiarity with network investigation tools such as Wireshark and other source tools such as ELK, Rekall, Ghidra, FlareVM to analyze log sources, memory, malware to understand intrusion vectors and attacker tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Provide support and guidance to improve security requirements for the security operations.
• Experience with Windows, Linux, Unix and understanding of NDS/HIDS.
• Monitoring of SIEM alerts with tools such as Splunk and EDR solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems or any other quantitative field.

Role Level: Mid Level
Work Type: Full Time
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi
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Job Function: Information Technology (IT)
Industry: Computer and Network Security