Associate SOC Analyst

Overview

The Security Operations Center (SOC) Associate Analyst supports PowerSchools day-to-day security monitoring and incident response by triaging and investigating security alerts executing runbooks and SOC procedures and escalating events that require deeper this role you will help configure and tune key security technologies (e.g. SIEM endpoint protection IDS/IPS WAF DLP and related tools) analyze security logs and vulnerability scan results to identify risk patterns and assist with remediation and root-cause analysis in partnership with internal stakeholders and application teams. You will also contribute to continuous improvement by documenting and refining processes and helping automate routine SOC workflows.

Responsibilities

Description

The Enterprise Security team designs builds and protects enterprise systems applications data and assets. The team provides services to safeguard information infrastructures applications and business processes against cyber threats.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

• Act as first line of defense to identify secure and react to pre-defined security alerts using run books.
• Assist in the response of high impact incidents working with all internal stakeholders around the company.
• Stay up to date with the most recent threats and technologies in the Cybersecurity world and actively contribute in improving the processes and solutions in place.
• Ability to utilize tools like SIEM Endpoint protection Web application Firewalls Data Loss prevention etc
• Able to interpret Vulnerability Scans security logs and identify risk patterns or breaches
• Identify assess and remediate pre-documented low risk security events.
• Assist in automating security routines and event treatment using the available tools and scripting languages.
• Execute Runbooks and SOC procedures and contribute in improvements.
• Analyze the root cause of incidents working with SMEs and application team
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 1 year or less of relevant and related work experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to work with different stakeholders through strong communication skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A relevant security certification preferred but not required
• Experience with Google SecOps a plus.
  

EEO Commitment

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process please let us know by emailing

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1