Analyst(Data/ Business/ Application)

SOC Analyst T2

We are growing our SOC team and are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced SOC Analyst to join our team.

 

Your role will involve

As a tier 2 SOC Analyst you are the first line of monitoring our customer environments for events and security incidents, you will perform real-time analysis of and correlate logs/alerts from a multitude of client devices. You’ll be responsible for determining if events constitute security incidents, and if they do you will analyse the incident and escalate with the customer or internally with the rest of the team when further investigation or a resolution is needed. You’ll also work with our security engineers to develop and tune SIEM rules and response procedures, documenting everything as you go to ensure effective communication with the rest of the team and the customer. Where you find common or repeat problems you will have the opportunity to analyse the trends and suggest and implement process or technical improvements to resolve them.

This is role within our SOC team and will suit you if you’re eager to learn, have a keen interest in problem solving and ready to begin your security career. Our SOC team work three shifts of 12 hours per week usually either Monday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Friday from 8am to 8pm.

All applicants must have a valid work permit or be legally entitled to work in Ireland.

  • 1-3 years experience in security operations.
  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Network Security, Information Security, Information Technology, or Mathematics (or equivalent work experience)
  • Keen problem solving/ troubleshooting skills
  • The ability to learn new technology and concepts quickly

To be successful in the role you will also need these skills and attributes

  • A can-do attitude
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You should be able to communicate technical details clearly.
  • The ability to adjust and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment
  • A pro-active approach to addressing issues and requests and the ability to multi task
  • Great organisational skills and attention to detail
  • An eagerness to assist Tier 1 Analysts improve themselves.

Bonus points if you have any of the following:

  • Prior work experience in a relevant area
  • Vendor specific certifications / experience – Fortinet, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper etc.
  • IBM QRadar or similar SIEM Certification / Experience
  • Theoretical or practical knowledge in the following areas:
  • Incident response, SIEM
  • Unix, Linux, Windows, etc. operating systems
  • Well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, LDAP, etc.)
  • Exploits, vulnerabilities, network attacks
  • Packet analysis tools (tcpdump, Wireshark, ngrep, etc.)
  • Regular expressions
  • Database structures and queries

In addition to Salary, and benefits, (Pension, Income protection, mobile phone, laptop, EAP) Ward offers its employees a creative and collaborative work environment, we reward courage and innovation and believe in treating our team well. We believe in being exceptional and support our team though career planning and numerous learning initiatives to help them develop and thrive within the organisation

We have put a lot of effort into adapting to the changing nature of work that came in 2020 and the investment that we have made in our infrastructure has meant that we are able to facilitate remote working for our entire team. Beyond the Covid 19 crisis we intend to keep facilitating remote or hybrid working for our team. Work life balance is important to our team so it’s important to us, in addition to remote working we can facilitate flexible/family friendly working hours.