About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting a Cyber Security Incident Detection Analyst to join NATO – NCIA in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium.

Responsibilities

As an Incident Detection Analyst , the incumbent will provide detailed analysis of logs and network traffic. The role will involve determining the severity of security alerts through investigative analysis in addition to the following main responsibilities:

• Conduct detailed investigation and research of security events within NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) team
• Analyse firewall, IDS, anti-virus and other sensor-produced system security events and present findings
• Provide detailed technical reports in support of 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
• Propose possible optimisations and enhancements which help to maintain and improve NATO’s Cyber Security posture
• Implement and support threat hunting activities; create hunting hypothesis and technical reports when requested
• Analyse intelligence information gathered from internal and external threat intelligence resources
• Identify security gaps in NATO infrastructure and develop custom content utilising available toolset
• Provide expert investigative support of large scale and complex security incidents
• Develop and maintain SOAR playbooks
• Develop and maintain SIEM use cases, their documentation and training guides
• Train and mentor team members on technical subjects

Duties & Role:

• Support and implement day to day SOC management activities as requested
• Produce Standard Operating Procedures covering all aspects of monitoring and detection activities
• Support project activities in their area of responsibility when requested
• Perform other duties as requested by management

Profile

• A university degree from 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 incident response centre (CIRT), computer emergency response team (CERT)
• Cloud-specific security tools. o Splunk ES suite and Phantom SOAR
• 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
• Solid knowledge and experience in Splunk Enterprise Security suite. Exceptionally this requirement can be compensated with proven level of expertise in network analysis and threat hunting
• High level of experience in at least one of the areas below:
  • Creation and maintenance of SIEM use cases. Skill, Knowledge & Experience: o Development of automation capabilities via both SOAR tools and scripting languages
  • Advanced searching techniques using SFPL on Splunk Enterprise Security Suite

Desirable

• Industry leading certification in the area of Cybersecurity, such as GCIA, GNFA, GCIH
• A good understanding of Security, Orchestrations, Automation and Response (SOAR) concepts and their benefits to the protection of CIS infrastructures
• A solid understanding of Information Security Practices relating to the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of information (CIA triad)
• Solid knowledge and experience in threat hunting in corporate/government level environment
• Strong knowledge of malware families and network attack vectors
• Knowledge and experience in analysis of various threat actor groups, attack patterns and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), deep analysis of threats across the enterprise by combining security rules, content, policy and relevant datasets
• Ability to analyse attack vectors against a particular system to determine attack surface
• Ability to produce contextual attack models applied to a scenario
• Hands on experience on monitoring cloud services