Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fortinet is looking for a Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst to join their FortiCloud SOC-as-a-Service team. This role involves monitoring security events, identifying threats, and collaborating with customers to enhance their security posture.
Responsibilities
- Monitor SOC alerts to detect potential threats
- Use threat intelligence feeds, triage alerts and filter out false-positives
- Create custom reports, dashboards, and execute log searches to support investigations and customer’s requirements
- Work with customers and Forensic analysis team to contain and eradicate incidents if need be
- Follow Incident Response playbooks, processes and procedures and help to improve them
- Create/Update use case detections to detect new threats from raw logs
- Create/Update playbooks to automate repetitive triage steps
Skills
- Understanding of SOC operations and Incident Response Life cycle
- Understanding of Cyber Kill chain, threat vectors and threat intelligence
- Understanding of layered security at data, OS and network levels
- Understanding Cybersecurity Frameworks
- Hands-on experience with security log analysis such as AV, IPS, Anti-Spam logs
- Hands-on experience with visualization, reporting technologies
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, regular expressions
- Hands-on experience with Network Security technologies such as Firewalls, SIEM, Sandbox
- Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows system administration
- Team player, solution-focused, conflict management skills
- Self-directed, takes initiatives
- Open to new challenges and learning opportunities
- Understands the importance of discipline, consistency and communication
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Graduates from IT degrees, or mid-career IT professionals with certifications in cybersecurity may apply
- Previous working experience with Fortinet products is a bonus
- Cybersecurity certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GSOC, CEH, Security+ is a bonus
Benefits
- 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Health Spending Account
- Personal Spending Account
- Employee & Family Assistance Plan (EFAP)
- Critical illness insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with a company match
- Competitive Paid Time Off
- Flexible leave policies
- Paid health days
- Fortinet equity program
Company Overview
Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products. It is a sub-organization of Fortinet Federal. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.fortinet.com.