Role: Senior Security Operations Analyst
Company: Pearson
Location: Durham, NC - Hybrid
As an information security analyst, you will be responsible for managing and implementing threat monitoring for FedRAMP systems. This includes enhancing threat monitoring analytics, performing threat hunting, and working on cyber security incident response activities.
The Information Security Analyst will be responsible for various security operations, including participating in monitoring and investigations, assisting with SEIM log ingestion, integration, and management, developing threat monitoring use cases, and creating SEIM detection rules. The role involves identifying false positive alerts and performing SEIM rule tuning, as well as participating in cybersecurity incident response. In addition, the analyst will perform data and log analysis as part of threat-hunting activities and monitor and report on security compliance within the technology organization in accordance with security policies.
Required Qualifications:
A Bachelor's degree in information systems, business management or equivalent work experience
3+ years’ experience in analyst and/or consultant roles in one or more areas of IT security
3+ years’ experience working with public cloud providers (Azure, AWS)
Basic knowledge of cloud technology and terminology
Moderate proficiency with using Azure Sentinel and KQL
Knowledge of and experience in developing and documenting requirements
Experience and understanding of technology-based organizations
Some experience with logging and alerting platforms, including SIEM integration
Current understanding of Industry trends and emerging threats
Knowledge of incident response methodologies and technologies
Experience of investigation techniques and report writing
Experience of risk management methods and logging of risks
Experience of process mapping and delivery of effective and understandable process maps and associated procedures
Ability to interact with senior management stakeholders, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, build strong relationships at all levels and across all business units and organizations, and understand business imperatives
Understanding of extensive and wide-ranging security requirements
Distillation of the security requirements into practical, proportionate and understandable instructions and guidance across the various software products
Desired Qualifications
Background in network, host, database, and application security
Experience driving a culture of security awareness
Ability to provide effective training and education to others
Coding skills to enable hands on automation of processes
What to expect from Pearson
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Job: TECHNOLOGY
Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 16846