Security Operations Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Security Operations Engineer (Cybersecurity): Investigating and responding to intrusion events, supporting incident response activities, and developing automation to accelerate IR activities with an accent on root cause analysis and fine-tuning use-cases. Focus on identifying log sources, generating alerts within SIEM, and analyzing potential risks to business objectives.

Location: Work from Home, Mexico

Company

hirify.global is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions.

What you will do

• Investigate and respond to intrusion events/incidents using SIEM, XSOAR, file analysis, and endpoint logs.
• Support cybersecurity incident response activities, including discovery, containment, and mitigation.
• Test and evaluate use-cases and work on fine-tuning them.
• Identify log sources needed for collection for both cybersecurity and compliance for the SIEM.
• Generate appropriate alerting within SIEM to leverage in automation activities.
• Write automation in the SOAR to accelerate IR activities (Java, Python, Bash, etc.).

Requirements

• Experience in a similar role, such as Junior SOC Analyst.
• Strong understanding of root cause analysis of alerts, events and/or incidents.
• Preferably, obtained a certification in one of these skills: Security +, Network +, OSCP, CISSP, Splunk and AWS related security certifications.
• Experience in threat modeling, code reviews, security testing, vulnerability detection, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.
• Experience in implementing compliance and cybersecurity controls in physical and cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security concepts and design principles from a security perspective.

Culture & Benefits

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.