Senior SOC Consultant

Immediate need for a talented Senior SOC Consultant. This is a 18+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta GA(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
 
Job ID:24-38234
 
Pay Range: $95 - $100/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• The SOC Consultant is responsible for maturing the organization's monitoring and response capabilities around new use case, alerts, and automated playbook feedback.
• Objective is to bring advanced external expertise to the organization to accelerate the SOC's coverage of multiple alert use-cases.
• The role will also deliver specific deliverables including, but not limited to:
• Alert Review and Prioritization
• Alert Runbook Development
• Alert Automation Analysis
• Onboarding of Defender Alerts (e.g. Defender for Cloud)
• Cloud Containment & Eradication
• Alert Tuning"                       
• The selected candidate must demonstrate an understanding of the SOC best practices.
• The candidate must demonstrate an understanding of key cloud resources and logs used to facilitate mature security operations center workflows.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

•  Key Skills:Industry certifications in general technology and security (e.g. Network+, Security+, CySA+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate etc.
• The ability to quickly identify nefarious artifacts versus benign activity will be a key skill for this position. This role must have problem solving skills for structured, unstructured, and complex situations. 
• Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time.
• Extensive hands-on experience conducting cyber alert analysis in various SIEM, Cloud, and other platforms.
• Strong ability to express their skills and knowledge in both verbal and written forms.
• Experience developing high-quality deliverables about deep technical concepts.
• Conduct cyber investigations for escalated and challenging computer security incidents.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of use cases for recurring investigation/incident triggers in support of the 24/7 Cybersecurity Threat Operations and Cybersecurity Threat Management program.
• Interface with other teams in Information Security (e.g. network operations, Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) ), vulnerability management) along with information and liability risk officers and technology management to help guide cyber security investigations and incidents.
• Identify new threat tactics, techniques and procedures used by cyber threat actors.
• Proactively engage in threat hunting activities to proactively search for threats in the enterprise environment.
• Experience working in cloud environments, namely Microsoft Azure.
• Industry certifications in cyber forensics and incident response, such as GIAC Cloud Security Essentials Certification (GCLD), GIAC Cloud Threat Detection (GCTD), GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR), Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM), and other related credentials
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience"

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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