Security Operations Analyst

7 months ago

Canberra, Australia Leidos Full time

Company Description

Leidos has been engaged by a Federal Government Department to work closely with other top tier partners to provide a leading Cybersecurity capability for critical infrastructure components.

We are tasked with developing and delivering cyber security services to directly support the Department’s mission. We are seeking highly motivated and appropriately experienced staff to help us deliver outstanding results.

If these roles match your skills and interest please apply.

**Job Description**:
The Security Operations Analyst role is responsible for monitoring information sources such as the SIEM and other data sources for security anomalies and performing triage and incident investigation including maintaining Cyber security products such as Splunk and McAfee security suite of products.

This role is critical to ensure issues are detected and responded to in a timely fashion and is an exciting position for those with experience working in a SOC and with security toolsets.

**You will have the following responsibilities**
- Ensuring alerts are reviewed in a timely manner;
- Performing initial assessment and triage as required then either with escalation to the appropriate team in a timely fashion or complete the investigation using available resources;
- Understanding and reviewing regular intelligence briefs to understand any changes to the threat landscape;
- Contributing to the team’s performance metrics;
- Learning on the job skills to improve your range of abilities;
- Working with other teams when appropriate to improve knowledge of the customers environments and possible threats;
- Identifying any deficiencies in the monitoring systems and suggesting improvements;
- Interacting with other teams to assist them in their tasks and vice versa; and
- Performing incident response tasks.
- Please note, this role may operate as part of an on call roster._

**Qualifications**:
**You will have the following skills/knowledge**:

- Intermediate skills in SIEM operation as an analyst ideally on Splunk;
- Hands on experience with different security controls such as HIPS, NIPS, Endpoint controls, firewalls, proxies and other related technologies;
- Intermediate understanding of incident response techniques including initial and detailed investigation, computer forensics, chain of custody implications, working within authorised boundaries, etc.;
- Experience with formal incident response including containment, discovery, forensic analysis of source data, writing IR reports, monitoring indicators of compromise;
- Cybersecurity experience or substantial infrastructure experience with hands on experience managing security tools.

**You will have the following personal attributes**:

- Demonstrable strong personal interest in cyber security;
- Knowing when to ask for assistance;
- A keen interest to learn, both in the analyst field and related work areas;
- Willingness to go the extra mile for the customer and ensure their mission objectives are met;
- Basic understanding of how to query people effectively for information to support investigations whilst being sensitive to limitations of what is acceptable;
- Infrastructure and networking skills;
- Contribute to policies, processes and procedures;
- Able to work with mínimal supervision;
- Willingness to learn the environment and identify appropriate sources of logs or other information to be integrated into the monitoring platform; and
- Proactively look for ways to improve the service, either through configuration, process or other changes as required.

**About You and What You'll Bring**

Coupled with your education and practical experience, you will demonstrate a ‘can-do’, pro-active, approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop relationships to achieve Leidos Australia’s objectives.

Additional Information

**What you'll love**
- Join a motivated team, with managers who support and enable you;
- A mature, flexible work-place culture - you decide where it makes sense for you to spend your day;
- Growth phase business bringing a variety of projects that will build your capability and versatility.

At Leidos, we’ve built our business on the ability to Redefine Possible and the same applies to your career. We proudly embrace diversity and support our people.

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