Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

2 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States TEKsystems Full time

Position Overview:

The Cybersecurity Operations Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting the Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) team. This position involves event triage, incident response, and log analysis, with responsibilities including:


1. Incident Management:

• Triage events and alerts to ascertain if an incident has occurred, including identifying asset owners, validating true positives, and escalating incidents to the Incident Response team as needed.


2. Security Reporting:

• Conduct rapid response and triage of security reports from Cybercrime and other teams, ensuring appropriate investigation, containment, escalation, and ticket closure based on findings.


3. Phishing Analysis:

• Execute thorough analyses of email phishing reports and threats, ensuring suitable containment and eradication measures are implemented based on perceived threats and documented guidelines.


4. Communication and Collaboration:

• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration with internal teams, management, and external stakeholders to provide timely updates on incident progress.


5. Forensic Support:

• Conduct basic forensic examinations on hosts and assist the Incident Response team on response tasks when engaged.


6. Content Detection Recommendations:

• Develop recommendations and requirements for content detection and response strategies.


Technical Proficiency:

• Demonstrate a solid understanding and experience with security controls and tools utilized by CDOC, including:


• SIEM/Logging: Splunk and Elasticsearch


• Case Management: Splunk SOAR


• Endpoint Security: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike, Wazuh, and Tanium


• Network Security: Netskope SWG and CASB, Palo Alto IPS, CloudFlare WAF, Extrahop, and NetWitness


• Identity and Access Management: Azure AD


• Intermediate knowledge of Public Cloud environments to support AWS and GCP threat response.


Networking and IT Systems Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of networking principles and various IT systems, applications, and their operational configurations.


Threat Analysis Expertise:

• Knowledge of Threat Actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), along with log analysis, network traffic analysis, and the examination of system artifacts for indicators of compromise.


Communication Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively engage with internal stakeholders within and outside of the Information Security domain.


Work Environment:

• This role will support 8-hour work shifts and may require overtime, on-call, and weekend coverage on a rotational basis.

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems:

We are partners in transformation, assisting clients in activating ideas and solutions to leverage new opportunities. Our team of 80,000 collaborates with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe, and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any characteristic protected by law.



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