Senior Information Security Analyst

Job Number: 32336

Position Title: Sr Information Security Analyst

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Description

Informatica is currently looking for a Senior Information Security Analyst with experience in Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response to join our Security Operations Center (SOC) team in Bangalore.

Job Summary

The Senior Information Security Analyst will be monitoring infiltration attempts, analysing logs and working to ensure that infiltration attempts are identified and dealt with in a timely manner. They will be analysing security events, conducting incident response and investigations, while also helping  security analysts, in building our detection and response capabilities.  The Senior Information Security Analyst will assist in and continuously evolving the team to be more efficient through streamlined response, documentation and remediation activities.

As a Senior Information Security Analyst, you will be responsible to supervise SOC operations, assist team, work on technical escalations, root cause analysis (RCA) and other related incident response functions. In addition, you must be able to work and adapt in a fluid, fast-paced environment with strong technical, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

 What You’ll Do

• Conduct complex investigations, RCA, determine if countermeasures are necessary, and escalate cases as needed.
• Perform threat hunting to identify potential compromise and identify Indicators Of Compromise.
• Provide recommendations on security best practices and look for opportunities to improve security posture.
• Supervise day to day SOC operations, train SOC analysts on new process/procedures, and act as a technical point of contact for SOC analysts.
• Perform periodic analysis into the performance of the use cases to drive innovation and improvements.
• Collaborate with security engineers/architects, and Infrastructure/Applications teams to investigate security incidents and provide prevention solutions for cyber threats.
• Participate in the creation, modification and maintenance of SOC policies and procedures.
• Develop and maintain information security operations metrics, dashboards and reports.
• Responsible for Security Incident Management, Security Trend/Gap review, Vulnerability Management, Risk Assessment of External Domains and the support of SOC Maturity assessment and recommendations.
• Management, administration and troubleshooting of security tools.
• Responsible for SOC Proof Of Concept and share the results with SOC management, as well as take Lead on SOC initiatives.
• Take part in Incident Commander on-call roster.

Key Essentials

• 5+ Years of experience in Security Operations & Incident Management 
• Knowledge of Cyber threat intelligence and information security Domains and concepts.
• Good knowledge with OSINT tools and datasets, current cyber threats, trends, attack lifecycle, and various Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Good written and oral communications skills.
• Understanding of and ability to explain Security Response processes to SOC analysts.
• Practical experience with the following Security technologies:
• SIEM
• UTM/Firewalls
• Endpoint Detection and Response
• Email Analysis/Phishing
• User/Network Behaviour Analysis.
• Vulnerability Management Solutions.
• Understand threat analysis models like MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Understand cloud technologies and environments.

Nice to Have

• Good understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, vulnerabilities, encryption, or other advanced areas of expertise.
• CEH, CompTIA Security+, CCNA, Qualys and any certification with respect to Security.
• Understanding of the threat landscape, emerging trends, and the ability to incorporate this understanding into day-to-day security monitoring.
• Experience with querying across large data sets to understand complex and difficult to solve problems.
• Ability to investigate and evaluate network traffic, read, and interpret logs and packet captures.
• Knowledge on basic coding practices in support of task automation.

City: Bangalore

State: Karnataka

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Bangalore, Karnataka IN