Security Operations Center Analyst

Who We Are

For more than 23 years, people-driven companies have turned to Sequoia to get their employee experience right. We’re in this business because we know that taking great care of people leads to better business outcomes. Helping our clients achieve those outcomes is what drives our team, our strategic service offerings, and our technology forward.

Sequoia comes through for clients with guidance, service, and the Sequoia People Platform. Through their compensation, benefits, and overall people programs, we enable them to better manage their global workforce, reduce administrative burdens, and reach a deeper level of employee care and support. We strategically use technology to enhance the expert guidance and committed service we bring to every client engagement.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst to join our Incident Response & Detection team. The successful candidate will be responsible for responding to cybersecurity incidents and driving them to completion along with improving our countermeasures capabilities to protect our systems from cyber threats.

What You Get to Do:

• The Cyber Security SOC Analyst is responsible for security operations, including real-time analysis of security alert data and leading the response to potential security incidents.
• The Cyber Security SOC Analyst will also work on threat hunting, improvements to detection, integrating threat intelligence and incident response capabilities.
• Keep up to date with the latest cyber threat trends and share knowledge with the team.
• Knowledgeable in multiple cybersecurity tools and processes such as SIEM, IDS, EDR, DLP, WAF and similar.
• Develop and implement monitoring use cases, cyber incident response procedures, playbooks, and other technical documentation.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Cybersecurity Engineering and technology teams in monitoring and alerting infrastructure, processes, and tools.
• Evaluate controls based on regulatory guidance, industry standard frameworks and best practices along with testing new solutions.

What You Bring:

• Ability to produce technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and incident response playbooks
• Awareness of the Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and Intelligence Driven Defense
• Technical knowledge in networking, Windows administration, Linux administration
• Understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats, attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion tactics, techniques and procedures
• Problem solving / analytical skills
• Knowledge of common attack vectors, different classes of attacks (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distributed, etc.) and general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation or privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.)
• Knowledge of system administration concepts for MacOS, UNIX/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Strong oral and written communications and the ability to present complex technical topics in clear and easy-to-understand language
• 2+ years of relevant experience in one or more technical cybersecurity domains
• Bachelors degree required.
• Being authorized to work in the US is a precondition of employment.

Sequoia’s Culture – Our most important asset:

• Integrity
• Passion for service
• Innovative
• Growth oriented
• Caring for others
• Promise-centric
• Focused on relationship building

Sequoia offers team members world class compensation and benefits to support the physical, financial and emotional wellbeing of you and your loved ones. We continuously and purposefully build an inclusive culture, designed to empower everyone to do their best work. Our compensation and benefits are thoughtful, competitive and leading edge, but most of all, they reflect what our people value most. The starting annual base pay salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 with final salary determined by your unique skills, experience and education.

Sequoia Consulting Group provides equal opportunity to all applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, citizenship, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.