What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paranoids Security Operations (SOC) Analyst position at 102 Oath Inc.?
When you impact millions of people every day, you become a large target for adversaries in all layers of the stack. Our job is to keep our users safe and make Verizon Media one of the safest places on the Internet.
We are the information security team at Verizon Media. People call us “The Paranoids”.
We protect Verizon Media and its users from criminal and advanced attackers. We ensure that our users are kept safe from scams and account hijacking. We also keep our services free of unsafe and illegal content, including that which affects children.
You are an experienced, highly motivated security analyst who will use Verizon Media internal tools and other systems to detect and respond to security events. You know how to protect sensitive corporate and user data from unauthorized access at Internet scale and will apply advanced technical, behavioral, and investigative solutions to find evil and ensure that Verizon Media data remains secure.
What Verizon Media can do for you
Give you the opportunity to take ownership of key processes supporting the mission of finding evil
Enable you to work at Internet scale to stop advanced attackers and protect millions of people
Empower you to learn from other analysts and responders
Provide you with an entertaining, work hard, play hard environment
Enable you to follow the investigation through till the end
Challenge you to push the bounds of our security program and your own skill set
What you can do for Verizon Media
Monitor and analyze security events from networks, applications, hosts, and databases
Proactive research and identification of security anomalies
Investigate network traffic and logs to identify security incidents
Coordinate with and escalate security incidents to the Paranoids FIRE (Incident Response) Team
Assess security incidents and assist Verizon Media business units to remediate issues
Work with a variety of security technologies including IDS, firewalls, EDR, etc
Contribute to and follow activities defined in SOC policies and SOC procedures
Assist in the creation of automation playbooks for SOC tasks
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's in Information Security, Computer Science, or other technical field
A passion for the field of information security and incident response.
Strong defensive security fundamentals including network and host forensics, log analysis, and basic malware triage
Understanding of common network services (web, mail, FTP, etc), network vulnerabilities, and attack patterns
Experience with Splunk (or similar) Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) solution
Experience with networking protocols, network architecture, firewalls, Intrusion Detection (Suricata) and network analysis (Moloch) systems
Functional experience with Windows, Mac and Linux systems and services
An ability to work independently and communicate via technology
Enthusiastic and outgoing personality with a high degree of integrity
Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to present complex, technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Solid organizational skills and strong customer service skills
Desired Qualifications
Functional experience with workflow automation platforms and strategy
Understanding of endpoint forensics and MAC/Linux system architecture
Experience with EDR technologies and investigating events at the endpoint
Verizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Verizon Media is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (https://www.verizonmedia.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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