- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certified
- CISSP or other industry recognized cyber security certification preferred
- 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on cyber security
- 3+ years of SOC/IR experience, including incident response triage, threat hunting, digital forensics, and configuring alerting rules
- 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on cyber security
- 3+ years of SOC/IR experience, including incident response triage, threat hunting, digital forensics, and configuring alerting rules
- Experience working within a Security Operations Center (SOC), including the ability to build purposeful dashboards, rules, and monitors that contribute to effective threat detection and response.
- Experience with AWS Serverless architecture and resources.
- Experience with AWS Kubernetes.
- Experience working in a fully cloud-based fintech company.
- Demonstrate proficiency in AWS Security with hands-on experience in SQS, SNS, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudTrail, and Step Functions.
- In-depth knowledge of security concepts such as cyber-attacks and techniques, threat vectors, risk management, incident management, etc.
- Utilize and incorporate MITRE ATTACK Framework and Cyber Kill Chain
- Working knowledge of security technologies such as: SIEM, EDR, FW, AD, IPS, SOAR, WAF, CTI, Application and Email Defense, Sandbox
- Utilize Datadog as both a SOC and incident management platform, leveraging its capabilities to enhance security operations.
- Proficiency in incident management, highlighting hands-on experience in handling security incidents from identification to resolution.
- Experience in threat modeling for AWS services' infrastructure and SaaS applications in general,
- Experience in adhering to compliance standards, specifically ISO27001 and SOC2
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Ability to perform deep dive investigations from start to finish of a security incident
- Capability in securing a data pipeline, emphasizing your expertise in monitoring for suspicious activities and implementing effective security controls throughout the data life cycle.
- Demonstrate a self-starter mentality, collaboration skills, sense of urgency, strong attention to detail, and ability to operate in a customer-oriented environment
- Exhibit a proactive mindset, showcasing your ability to identify problems, gaps, and actively research potential solutions and initiatives to enhance security measures.
- Team player open to assisting other teams and team members within a startup environment
- Capable of assuming responsibility for assigned tasks and seeing them through to completion, while also adept at extracting new projects or lessons learned from the undertaken work.
- Proficient in establishing a systematic approach to sharing knowledge with team members operating within the same functional area.
- Perform real-time alert monitoring across our cloud Infrastructure and business systems
- Swiftly triage and respond to threats
- Initiate and track complex, multithreaded investigations to resolution
- Timely support for all Identity and Access Management requests
- Stay up to date with and report on information security issues and emerging trends
- Integrate and share information effectively with other analysts and teams
- Creation of reports, dashboards, KPIs, metrics for SOC operations
- Assist security operations and engineering team where needed
- Develop documentation and operational playbooks, as well as suggest alert enhancements to improve detection capability
- Identify gaps in processes and procedures, defining solutions, escalating to appropriate teams, and supporting implementation to promote consistency in service delivery.
- Develop and integrate monitoring and detective capabilities through technologies such as DLP, MDM etc.
- Develop SIEM use cases for monitoring, investigative techniques, and health checks for optimization and assurance of logging all required systems
- Monitor the functioning of security systems to ensure the system operates in conformance with expected performance and specifications
- Evaluate SOC operating procedures for operational efficiencies and updates to monitoring rules and use cases
- Develop ways to optimize or automate processes
- Create and modify security SIEM dashboards to clearly identify scope of findings, or monitor activity
- Provide expert analysis investigative support of large scale and complex security incidents, and in many cases identify incidents for which a technical detection may not be available.
- Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm each and every day to motivate your team to be the best they can in every aspect of what they do
- Celebrate the success of others by recognising the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
- Align your values with the Mission, Vision and Values of our clients team
- Be a role model for the our clients organizational culture by creating a positive impact at every touchpoint with people, with every word you say or put in print and everything you do
- Communicate in a fashion that is respectful and well understood
- Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
- Build and utilize working relationships with internal business partners across the organization and external business contacts
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Job Type: Full-time l Remote
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