SOC Engineer

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Responsibilities:

• Experienced in SIEM Administration, proficient in threat hunting, malware analysis, and SIEM tools. Skilled in delivering actionable intelligence to enhance organizational security posture.
• Implementing and managing SIEM solutions to ensure enterprise-level cybersecurity.
• Proficient in security incident monitoring, log analysis, and threat detection to minimize risks and enhance system resilience.
• Skilled in integrating and customizing SIEM tools to meet organizational needs and regulatory compliance requirements.

Requirements:

• B.Sc. in Computer/IT/Electronics Engineering/Science.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in IT.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in SOC operations.
• At least three (3) years’ experience in FortiGate firewalls - Forti-Analyzer, Forti-SIEM and Forti-SOAR.
• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, or tuning SIEM platforms (e.g., Google SecOps / Chronicle, Splunk, QRadar, or Azure Sentinel) in production environments.
• Demonstrable proficiency with Google Cloud services, security tooling, and related APIs (e.g., Security Command Center, IAM, Cloud Logging, Cloud Functions).
• Strong experience and knowledge of security threats, incident response using incident management systems.
• Strong experience in operational work which includes but is not limited to administrating, operating, monitoring, managing SIEM platforms and collecting raw data as well as reviewing alarms and alerts, and regular activities of ensuring the health of log sources, parsers, alerts, reports, etc.
• Strong experience in developing content for a complex and growing SIEM infrastructure. This includes cases, dashboards, active channels, reports, rules, filters, and trends.
• In-depth experience in tracking and resolving security incidents on regular frequencies and collaborating with other teams for resolution and suggesting areas for improvement.
• Strong experience in fine-tuning security solutions to reduce the occurrence of false positive and false negative alerts.
• Strong experience in malware analysis, log analysis and correlation as well as cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• In-depth experience in designing and implementing strategies to contain and recover from an incident.
• Proven experience in proactively identifying possible threats, security gaps, and vulnerabilities that might be unknown.

Mandatory Professional Certifications:

• Certified SOC Analyst (C|SA).
• Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH VI 1 or higher).
• NSE technical certification 5 (Forti-SIEM).
• NSE 6 technical certification 6 (Forti-SOAR).

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