Opportunity

Job description

The role

Harrington Starr are seeking a Cyber Threat Operations and Defence Specialist for a tier one bank in their Houston hub, which will form part of a wider global team. The role is based in Houston with a hybrid model on offer

This role will suit a pro-active blue teamer who will work on incident management/ investigations, threat hunting along with elements of Security Engineering. It will also suit a technically ambitious individual who enjoys challenging themselves and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to part of a highly talented with a huge investment in to cyber both from a resource and tooling perspective.

Key tasks will include:

• Incident triage – including high priority and complex investigations.
• Threat hunting and proactively seeking out suspicious activities and threats.
• Analysis of attacks and trends.
• Presenting detailed analysis of attacks to stakeholders.
• Threat detection including SIEM use detection cases, and analysing data from the SIEM.
• Utilising all amiable tooling
• Staying abreast of new attacker techniques and industry trends

Key skills needed:

• A proven track record in a similar blue team\ cyber defence role
• An offensive security mindset
• Email gateway security roles
• Experience of Endpoint protection platforms
• Experience of working with and ideally some experience of fine tuning a SIEM solution
• Experiencer of identity and access management and cloud security architectures highly desirable
• Any industry certs – CISSP, OSCP, SANS desirable