About this job

We are recruiting a Senior Security Event Analyst for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (NATO NCIA).

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed investigation and research of security events within NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) team
• Analyse firewall, IDS, anti-virus and other network sensor produced system security events and present findings
• Provide detailed technical reports about incidents and capability improvements
• Share security event/incident information with stakeholders via presentations and technical reports
• Appropriately leverage the comprehensive extended toolset (e.g. Log Collection, Intrusion Detection, Packet Capture, VA, Network Devices etc) to identify malicious activity. Be able to recommend improvements to enable enhancing investigations
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise supporting the end-to-end Cyber Security Incident Handling process
• Propose possible optimisations and enhancement which help to both maintain and improve NATO’s Cyber Security posture
• Conduct technical reports and presentations regarding his area of responsibility

Profile

A university degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 4 years of specific experience. Exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency; that is, at least 7 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to the function of the post.

Mandatory

Expert level in at least three of the following areas and a high level of experience in several of the other areas:

• Security Incidents Event Management products (SIEM) – e.g. Splunk,
• Network Based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) – e.g. SourceFire, Palo Alto Network Threat Prevention
• Host Based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS)
• Full Packet Capture systems – e.g. Niksun, RSA/NetWitness
• A variety of Security Event generating sources (e.g. Firewalls, IDS, Routers, Security Appliances)
• Computer forensics tools (stand alone, online and network)
• Computer incident response centre (CIRT), computer emergency response team (CERT)
• Computer security tools (Vulnerability Assessment, Anti-virus, Protocol Analysis, Anti-Virus, Protocol Analysis, Anti-Spyware, etc)
• Proficiency in Intrusion/Incident Detection and Handling
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of computer and communications security, networking, and the vulnerabilities of modern operating systems and applications

Desirable

• Industry leading certification in the area of Cybersecurity such as GCIA, GNFA, GCIH.
• Solid knowledge and experience in Splunk Enterprise Security suite
• A good understanding of Security, Orchestrations, Automation and Response (SOAR) concepts and their benefits to the protection of CIS infrastructures
• Solid knowledge and experience in monitoring threats in a cloud environment
• A solid understanding of Information Security Practices; relating to the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of information (CIA triad.)

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

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