Cloud Security Analyst II (5768)

Smartronix, LLC is currently seeking a Cloud Security Operations Analyst to support our Security Operations team responsible for the managed security services of our customer’s cloud-based infrastructures. Candidate will need to guide/assist individuals as they evaluate the overall cyber security posture and develop security monitoring solutions for countering emerging threats. The right candidate will contribute to detecting and mitigating security threats by leveraging the provided security tools to ensure quality and timely delivery of our customers' managed security services. This is a remote position supporting a Herndon, Viriginia based team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and continually improve system and network security monitoring capabilities and procedures
• Monitor, triage, and notify our clients of potential security incidents and tune sensors and queries to reduce false positives
• Implement endpoint security agent policies and rules to meet defensive objectives
• Support operational threat analysis based upon log correlation and endpoint security tools
• Support contingency and incident response activities
• Develop monthly and quarterly reports based upon system and network monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Recommend improvements; maintain/monitor production and non-production systems to ensure customer data is protected from unauthorized access
• Write knowledge base documents to improve operations, SOP and contribute to overall organization improvements

Required Skills and Experience:

• Ability to lead and coordinate efforts in small working teams
• Ability and willingness to continually learn and enhance capabilities
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing from a technical perspective
• Ability to collaborate with customer stakeholders regarding security capabilities versus threat actor techniques
• Demonstrable understanding of common enterprise applications, infrastructure, and security technologies
• Ability to analyze emerging cyber security threats and applicability to customer environments
• Proactive, self-motivated target driven for service delivery
• Ability to work within a team
• Skills in presenting and communicating with customers
• 4 year degree focused on Cybersecurity or Computer Science
• Must possess 2+ years cyber security or cloud experience, with a preference for supporting a Security Operations Center
• Experience with Unix, Linux or Windows operating systems; comfortable on the command line interface
• Cloud or virtualization experience is preferred but not requireExperience with advanced endpoint security tools and their use to counter malicious threat actors
• Experience performing security incident response, incident analysis, and incident handling
• Scripting language experience is preferred by not required
• CISSP, CEH, CASP or additional security certifications are preferred but not required
• Additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree
• Must possess the ability to obtain a Public Trust and DoD security clearance