Threat Analyst- Team Lead

Role Summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Security Operations Manager to support its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) customers. The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational management and effectiveness of the Security Operations Center and its personnel. This involves overseeing the day-to-day security operations and ensuring the strategic and operational mission of the MDR Team is fulfilled.

What you will do

• Maintain supervision over operational tasks and provide day-to-day oversight for threat analysts
• Oversee analysts in their investigation and response
• Activities when security incidents arise to determine possible root cause and resolution
• Effectively communicate information to stakeholders of all levels
• Demonstrate experience in network and host-based intrusion analysis, incident response processes and procedures, digital forensics and / or handling malware
• Acting as a lead throughout incident scenarios and provide subject matter expertise in cybersecurity incident response
• Successfully executing incident handling procedures as well as direct response to cyber security incidents
• Maintaining current knowledge and recognition of attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to produce indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations
• Assessing cyber threat intelligence / open source intelligence and operationalizing that information
• Demonstrating real-world, hands-on experience dealing with sophisticated malware and dynamic cyber threat actors
• Identifying current and emerging threats and application of such research

What you will bring

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