Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst

Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst

Employment Type: Contract (6-month contract)

Workplace Type: Remote

Location: Remote, USA (Must be located in PST)

Industry: Entertainment

Compensation: $46-$60/hr

SUMMARY:

This is a hands-on security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department at large. This position's core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end to end triage and closure of security related events. The successful candidate will work to assess, develop, and deploy detection capabilities ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected.

We are looking for candidates who have a passion for Cyber Security, Threat Detection, Threat Hunting, and Incident Response. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs a highly collaborative organization. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct day-to-day Incident Response activities as well as additional SOC related detection and response activities as required for a global environment


• Design, engineer, and implement runbooks and playbooks for Incident Response


• Coordinate with both technical and business stakeholders during the incident response process.


• Perform host based, cloud based, network based, memory, or log analysis and/or forensics in support of Incident Response investigations.


• Play an active role in CAA's Security Incident Response efforts, working to identify and mitigate information security threats


• Review security information, event logs, and reports, provide findings and recommendations


• Use input from IRM leadership and key security metrics to ensure technical security controls are meeting desired objectives; implement a process of continual review and improvement to ensure the measurable effectiveness of CAA's technical controls


• Other projects or duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 3 years in Information Technology, ideally with 2 years' experience in a hands-on Incident Response, Threat Hunting, or forensics role


• Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field of work


• Strong technical background with experience in at least two of the following
  
  
  
  • Windows disk and memory forensics
  
  
  • Network traffic analysis (netflow,pcap)
  
  
  • Log Analysis
  
  
  • Unix or Linux disk and memory forensics
  
  
  • Malware analysis - both static and dynamic
  
  
  
  


• Strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, firewalls, cloud applications, and infrastructure


• Expertise building workflows and playbooks to facilitate the Incident Response process


• Strong understanding of the NIST framework and using a continuous improvement loop


• Experience building and managing incident response frameworks to test and validate the effective operation of security controls; measuring the ability to respond to threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. To the extent our customers require a background check for certain positions, the Company faces a significant risk to its business operations and business reputation unless a review of criminal history is conducted for those specific job positions.

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