Senior Security Analyst

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Responsibilities

  • Hunt directly in customers environments with proactive and reactive guidance.
  • Explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques, monitor and catalog changes in activity group tradecraft, and investigate alerts for enterprise customers.
  • Work directly with customers at all levels of their security organization from analyst to CISO to support investigation and response.
  • Collaborate with our data science and threat research teams to develop and maintain accurate and durable detections.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection.
  • OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Cyber Incident Response, or Penetration Testing/Red Team.
  • 5+ of working with extremely large data sets, using tools and scripting languages such as: Excel, KQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

 

  • 6+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection
  • OR Doctorate in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • Advanced knowledge of operating system internals and security mechanisms.
  • Experience analyzing attacker techniques.
  • Knowledge of kill-chain model, ATT&CK framework, and modern penetration testing techniques
  • Knowledge of operating system internals, OS security mitigations & understanding of Security challenges in

Windows, Linux, Mac, Android & iOS platforms

  • Experience with cloud environments and network signals
  • Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate business need for detection improvements
  • Knowledge of major cloud and productivity platforms as well as identity systems and related security concerns
  • Experience with curation of Threat Intelligence
  • Experience with direct customer communication in a service delivery role
  • Ability to use data to ‘tell a story’
  • Experience with reverse engineering, digital forensics (DFIR) or incident response, or machine learning models
  • Experience with system administration in a large enterprise environment including Windows and Linux servers and workstations, network administration, cloud administration
  • Experience with offensive security including tools such as Metasploit, exploit development, Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT), and designing ways to breach enterprise networks
  • Additional advanced technical degrees or cyber security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, or GIAC

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  10. Before leaving the room. You should say ‘Thank you to your interviewer’

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  1. Company always wants you to be on time and you should be.
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  9. Always respect your seniors.
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  1. Tell me about yourself or describe yourself or give your introduction?
  2. Why are you leaving your current company?
  3. How will you take our company ahead from here with the help of your work?
  4. Are you comfortable with our company’s work timing?
  5. Why should we hire you for this position?
  6. How much do you expect as a salary?

Answers should be given below.

  1. Introduction: 
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  1. Money (Most Important Reason):

As we all know 99.99% people do jobs only because of money and in America (USA) the monthly average salary is $5500. A graph is given below to understand easily. 

Countries USA Dolor Other Currencies
India 5500 429382
China 5500 36898
Nigeria 5500 2,305,710
Nepal 5500 700,393.10
Canada 5500 7,027.08
Pakistan 5500 1,201,750
Brazil 5500 27,920
Sri Lanka 5500 1,979,616

 

  1. Safety in USA:

If you live in America then you can say that you are one of those people in America who are the safest in this planet 

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