Senior Associate Incident & Threat Analyst (SOC Analyst)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid, Senior Level

Discover is one of the most recognized brands in the U.S. and they are seeking a Senior Associate Incident & Threat Analyst. The role involves analyzing incidents, mitigating threats, and collaborating with incident response teams to enhance the company's cyber defense posture.

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Responsibilities

Analyzes incidents, and identify and mitigate threats.
Collaborates with incident response teams to evaluate Discover's cyber defense posture, processes, and procedures in context to given threats.
Creates meaningful, actionable output to improve detection and prevention capabilities.
Performs detailed analysis and incident investigations using a variety of tools, techniques, and data sources available.
Executes timely, thorough, and effective incident handling through collaboration and innovation.
Completes thorough documentation for investigations.
Provides mitigation services for identified threats and security incidents.
Tests detection logic and provide feedback to produce meaningful, actionable output.
Conducts data mining to uncover and investigate anomalous activity.
Drives the normalization, correlation, and integration of internal and subscription threat-intelligence sources.
Creates and maintains documentation such as technical procedures, job aides, processes, and runbooks.
Collect and draft mitigation and countermeasure strategies from collected threat intelligence sources.
Analyzes the organization’s cyber defense posture given specific threats.
Maintains evidence integrity during acquisitions and analysis.
Maintains a high-level awareness of security trends and emerging threats.

Qualification

Required

Bachelors Computer Science, Information Security or related
2+ years Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics or related
In Lieu of Education: 4+ years Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Data Analytics or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency of Advanced Beginner on the Dreyfus Cybersecurity scale.
Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.