SIEM Content Developer

The SIEM Content Developer will provide support during core business hours and will also participate in an on-call rotational schedule.

Duties include proactively searching for threats. Inspect traffic for anomalies and new malware patterns. Investigate and analyze logs. Provide analysis and response to alerts when escalated from junior analysts, and document activity in SOC investigations and Security Event Notifications (SENs). Develop custom content within the SIEM using advanced SPL language and data models) or other network security tools to detect threats and attacks against the department. SIEM Content Developers participate in briefings to provide expert guidance on new threats and will act as an escalation point for M&A analysts. The analyst may also be required to author reports and / or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests. In addition, the SIEM Content Developer analyst may be asked to participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC visibility or process.

Primary Responsibilities

List daily duties and / or specific job responsibilities.

• Experience with creating and implementing custom IOCs and IOAs in Crowdstrike
• Experience with triaging and investigating hosts using Crowdstrike
• Experienced with updating McAfee AV signatures
• Experience with creating and maintain custom Tanium packages for collecting artifacts for continuous monitoring
• Provide recommendations for tuning and / or triaging notable events
• Perform critical thinking and analysis to investigate cyber security alerts
• Analyze network traffic using enterprise tools (e.g. Full PCAP, Firewall, Proxy logs, IDS logs, etc)
• Collaborate with team members to analyze an alert or a threat
• Stay up to date with latest threats and familiar with APT and common TTPs
• Utilize OSINT to extrapolate data to pivot and identify malicious activity
• Have experience with dynamic malware analysis
• Have experience performing analysis of network traffic and correlating diverse security logs to perform recommendations for response
• Utilize the Cyber Kill Chain and synthesize the entire attack life cycle
• Review and provide feedback to junior analysts’ investigation
• participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC visibility or process
• Contribute to SOP development and updating
• Provide expert guidance and mentorship to junior analysts

Basic requirements that the recruiter should use as a filter :

All Tier 2 analyst candidates shall have a minimum a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field PLUS eight (8) years of experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics.

Of the eight (8) years of professional experience requirements above, SIEM Content Developer candidates shall have at least one (1) of the following specialized experience for their position :

Vulnerability Assessment

Preferred Qualifications

Requirement Certifications

CCFP – Certified Cyber Forensics Professional

CHFI – Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security

CIRC

ECSA – EC-Council Certified Security Analyst

EnCE

FIWE

GCFA – Forensic Analyst

GCFE – Forensic Examiner

GCIH – Incident Handler

GISF – Security Fundamentals

GREM – Reverse Engineering Malware

GXPN – Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester

LPT – Licensed Penetration Tester

OSCE (Certified Expert)

OSCP (Certified Professional)

OSEE (Exploitation Expert)

OSWP (Wireless Professional)

WFE-E-CI

FTK-WFE-FTK

GCTI – Cyber Threat Intelligence

GOSI – Open Source Intelligence

CTIA – Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst