Senior Cyber Event Analyst

Job Description
Shift:
Tuesday through Saturday| 2:
00 PM to 10:
00 PM PST
NBCUniversal’s Cyber Threat Operations team is responsible for providing cyber threat intelligence, event analysis, incident response and threat hunting for all areas of NBCUniversal in a highly collaborative, fast paced, and agile fashion. As a member of the Cyber Response team, a candidate can expect to utilize their technical expertise to assess, contain, and remediate cyber threats. The Senior Cyber Event Analyst is responsible for analysis, escalation and initial response actions of security events and alerts to incidents.
The ideal candidate would have a working knowledge of current and relevant security technologies and how to apply them to cyber event analysis and response actions. They would also be able to utilize a clear investigative methodology with a focus on preserving evidence and analyzing data to form conclusions that will steer response directions. Any experience analyzing and responding to security events and incidents with practical and working knowledge of response analysis methodologies and enhancing security response processes would also be ideal.
The role involves regular interaction with various groups and leadership within the organization in order to accomplish job responsibilities. Working under the direction of the Cyber Response Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for participating in the following activities:
Day-to-day operational tasks related to the ongoing support of Cyber Operations.
Responsible for documenting evidence throughout the incident life cycle, conducting shift handovers, escalating security events to incident response, and providing support during cyber security incidents
Responsible for the ticket queue triage:
prioritization, assignment and disposition of security incident tickets/events.
Responsible for analyzing threat data from multiple sources and building evidence backed dispositions.
Responsible for front line triage and response including some containment and remediation actions such as network isolation of hosts and blocking indicators of compromise within security perimeter tools.
Analyst must keep detailed reports on all analysis activity, documented in the case management tool to validate process adherence.
Responsible for contributing to the creation and updating of new and existing SOAR playbooks and runbooks and general response documentation
Identify operational gaps in security processes, provide ideas for solutions, and take ownership for implementation
Act as a mentor for non-senior level Cyber Event Analysts