SOC Team Lead

SOC Team Lead

This position is located in College Park, Maryland.
US Citizenship required for this role.

The schedule will be a Panama schedule:  (slow rotating shift pattern that uses 4 teams and two 12-hour shifts to provide 24/7 coverage. The working and non-working days follow this pattern:  2 days on, 2 days off, 3 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on, 3 days off)

BlueVoyant is looking for Security Operations Center (SOC) Team Lead to help our global customers manage their IT security. You will be part of a fast-paced team that helps customers to reduce the impact of security incidents and ensures that critical business operations continue unhindered.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides supervision and oversight for Security Analysts during a standard working team/shift
• Assumes full responsibility and accountability for ensuring that customers receive world-class service from Security Analysts assigned to their shift
• Assigns Security Analysts to information security events and oversees investigations as necessary
• Assumes responsibility for issues and requests escalated by Security Analysts and executes additional escalations as necessary
• Supervise operations in deterring, identifying, monitoring, investigating, and analyzing computer network intrusions
• Supervises complex event investigation and incident declaration
• Ensure events are properly identified, analyzed, and escalated to incidents
• Hunt for suspicious activity based on anomalous activity and indicators of compromise from various intelligence feeds and toolsets
• Participate in the response, investigation, and resolution of security incidents
• Create knowledge base articles for handling medium and high severity incidents
• Assist in the advancement of security policies, procedures, and automation
• Monitor and analyze security events and alerts from multiple sources, including security information and event management (SIEM) software, network and host-based intrusion detection systems, firewall logs, and system logs (Windows and Unix), and databases
• Separate true threats from false positives using network and log analysis and escalate possible intrusions and attacks
• Provide incident investigation, handling, and response to include incident documentation
• Initiate tickets, document, and escalate to higher-level security analysts
• Develop incident response reporting and policy updates as needed
• Perform computer and network forensic analysis
• Serve as the technical escalation point and mentor for lower-level analysts
• Regularly communicate with customer IT teams to inform them of issues, help them remediate, and ensure that they continue to operate business as usual
• Perform triage of incoming issues (assess the priority, determine risk)
• Work with customers to deploy hardware and software monitoring systems
• Maintain a strong awareness of the current threat landscape

Basic Qualifications

• Excellent teamwork skills
• Knowledge of and experience with intrusion detection/prevention systems and SIEM software
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of network protocols and devices.
• Advanced experience with Mac OS, Windows, and Unix systems.
• Ability to analyze event logs and recognize signs of cyber intrusions/attacks
• Ability to handle high pressure situations in a productive and professional manner.
• Ability to work directly with customers to understand requirements for and feedback on security services
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics in clear and easy-to-understand language
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed team
• Able and willing to work in a 24/7/365 environment, including nights and weekends, on a rotating shift schedule
• Ability to provide create signatures for security tools
• Familiarity with tools such as Wireshark, TCP Dump, Security Onion, and Splunk
• Strong knowledge of the following:
  • SIEM
  • Packet Analysis
  • SSL Decryption
  • Malware Detection
  • HIDS/NIDS
  • Network Monitoring Tools
  • Case Management System
  • Knowledge Base
  • Web Security Gateway
  • Email Security
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Anti-Virus
  • Network Access Control
  • Encryption
  • Vulnerability Identification

Preferred Competencies

• Experience in network/host vulnerability analysis, intrusion analysis, digital forensics, penetration testing, or related areas
• 5+ years of hands-on SOC/TOC/NOC experience
• GCIA and/or GCIH required. GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, Security +, Network +, CEH, RHCA, RHCE, MCSA, MCP, or MCSE preferred
• Familiarity with tools such as IDA Pro, PEiD, PEview, Procmon, Snort, Bro, Kali Linux, Metasploit, NMAP, and Nessus
• Familiarity with GPO, Landesk, or other IT Infrastructure tools
• Understanding and/or experience with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, C, C++.

Education

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or other IT-related field
• Exceptional candidates with proven experience in security/network operations will also be considered

About BlueVoyant

At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. Accuracy! Actionability! Timeliness! Scalability!

Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.

Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America.

All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Disclaimer: Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of the company’s federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee’s ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon the company’s verification of the employee’s citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting.

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