Incident Responder Forensics Analyst Job Vacancy in Bahrain
Location - Geneva, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi or Dubai
Salary - DOE
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in an IT-related field and 4+ years' experience in an information technology field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in the areas of incident detection and response, malware analysis, or computer forensics.
Relevant certifications in Blue Teaming and Forensics.
Excellent knowledge of cybersecurity protocols and procedures.
Proven previous experience as a SOC Analyst, on triage of alerts.
Proven 1-2 years of experience with forensic analysis, performing static and dynamic analyses of suspect malware-Knowledge of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS environments.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively communicate security concepts and protections to technical and non-technical audiences.
Role and Responsibilities:
Acts as Incident Commander for high-impact cyber breaches and advanced attack methods, using the Cyber Kill Chain methodology.
Provide project support-related tasks to integrate the security platform's ongoing tuning support for existing technology.
Apply technical acumen and analytical capabilities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the response.
Develop and enhance capabilities of digital and computer forensics
Knowledge sharing of threat intelligence/ management during weekly meetings
Conduct security event analysis and validation, triage validated incidents, perform initial containment where feasible, research incidents and enrich incident case documentation, and escalate incidents for further analysis, containment, and eradication.
Review and analyze threat intelligence information and proactively search applications, systems, and network logs to hunt for and thwart relevant threats identified threats.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of playbooks to establish and continuously improve the team's operating knowledge base.
Participate in post-incident activities and contribute to lessons learned to improve security operations.
Provide sound technical recommendations that enable remediation of security issues.
Utilize advanced threat models, SIEM use cases, and incident response playbooks.
Provide guidance and mentorship to improve analyst skill sets guiding threat management and modeling, identify threat vectors, and develop use cases for security monitoring.
About the Role:
This is a full-time on-site role as Incident Responder - Forensics Analyst in our Security Operations Center (SOC) Team. The role will be part of a team of SOC analysts of our company Detection & Response environment to detect, respond to, mitigate, and report on cybersecurity incidents. The role will also be responsible for cyber forensics and performing threat-hunting activities.