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  • ID
    #37677075
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    QED National
  • Date
    2022-04-03
  • Deadline
    2022-06-02

Cyber Security Analyst

New York, Long island, 11767 Long island USA
 
Contract

Vacancy expired!

A New York City government agency, located in Long Island City, is looking for a Cyber Security Analyst for a long term contract.

Candidates should be local and willing to work on site. This position will be on site in Long Island City, NY. To be considered for this position, the client has advised that upon placement, consultants will be required to abide by the Order of the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene which requires COVID-19 Vaccination for Department of Education Employees, Contractors, Visitors, and Others. The Commissioner Order can be found by searching: "Order of the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene COVID-19 Vaccination for Department of Education Employees, Contractors, Visitors, and Others."

Requirements and skills

  • Minimum 1-2 years' hands-on experience working in incident response and/or other IT-related fields tied to networking and enterprise information system environments.
  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline preferred.
  • Interest in the cyber security field including a specific focus on the following domains: enterprise security defense, network and application penetration testing, and incident response.
  • Basic knowledge of network protocols, enterprise architecture, and common network logging functions.
  • Good written and verbal communications skills are a must.
  • Ability to prioritize assignments and efforts in a complex work environment.
  • Self-motivated and able to work in an independent manner.
  • Must be detail-oriented and willing to learn.
  • Candidates should have a basic understanding of incident response processes, network investigative techniques, and cyber security trends and issues along with SIEM and SOAR technologies and uses. Candidates should have a basic working knowledge of Fire Eye, Microsoft Defender, Splunk, Armis

Preferred Certifications

  • Industry certifications such as CEH, CISA, Security + are desirable

Responsibilities

  • Understand CSIRT functions and participates in the triage of cyber security events.
  • Receive and analyze alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.
  • Triage logs from various security controls, including, but not limited to, firewall, proxy, host intrusion prevention systems, endpoint security, application, and system logs, to identify possible threats to network security.
  • Enrich security event data to streamline the incident response process using SIEM and other correlation technologies.
  • Perform incident triage, documentation, and escalation of appropriate incidents to cyber security incident handlers.
  • Maintain proper documentation and creation of reports
  • The Cybersecurity Analyst will coordinate the preliminary response activities for cyber security incidents across the company environment.
  • The successful candidate will focus on preliminary identification and analysis of potential cyber security incidents.
  • The successful candidate will perform triage functions such as email review, log analysis, analysis of network traffic and endpoint systems, enrich data, and will be responsible for escalating and assigning the incidents to level two incident handlers.

About us: QED National is a leading IT consulting, solutions and staff augmentation firm, serving both the public and private sectors for over 28 years. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, QED National's team is comprised of the brightest minds in the industry with the skills to solve the most complex technological problems.

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