Incident Response Analyst

Position description:

We are looking for an Incident Response Analyst who is able to analyse security events and investigate potential incidents, validate and manage high priority incidents while providing comprehensive written root-cause analysis to security teams & stakeholders, utilise tooling to contain & minimise overall impact while escalating unresolved incidents to security engineering teams, maintain & continuously update incident response plans and runbooks for more efficient incident response.

This person will be responsible for monitoring security alerts and events in order to identify & remediate security incidents across various on-prem and cloud based solutions. We are looking for someone who is passionate about what they do, and not afraid to speak up or make suggestions. 

Key accountabilities:

• Develop operational procedures to implement and continually improve the incident response process.
• Monitor security alerts within the tech stack, and investigate any potential security incidents.
• Analyze the alerts received to classify and assess the impact, managing high priority incidents, including communication to the business, facilitating root cause analysis and resolution.
• Perform cyber security investigations as part of the incident analysis.
• Coordinate with other departments the remediation tasks to be performed and escalate unresolved incidents.
• Perform post-mortem analysis to identify root causes and design controls or measures to prevent future incidents.
• Write comprehensive investigation reports capturing investigation details and root cause analysis aligned knowledge of modern Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Collaborate with content production for security awareness.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in similar roles
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Security
• Working ITIL knowledge and experience
• Functional knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Experience with log analysis, malware analysis, and/or forensic analysis
• Hands-on experience with industry leading security tools: EDR, SWG, SIEM, MDM

Qualities:

• Good communication
• Ability to confidently present findings to those with either a technical or non-technical background.
• Self-directed, resourceful, and a critical thinker with attention-to-detail and proactive problem-solving skills.
• Ability to self-organise and plan activities with commitment towards results.
• Ready to learn new contents both from others or self-learned.
• Passionate about self-improvement and suggesting improvements to processes or activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• InfoSec Certification (e.g. CISSP, Comptia Sec, CEH, etc)
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) in a production environment
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Powershell, etc)
• Experience in Blue/Red/Purple team engagements

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Qualities to be tested by recruitment:

• Discretion: should have a mindset oriented to data protection and should be discrete by default. 
• Curiosity: should not stay comfortable with the information provided but instead try to see beyond in order to find new opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Self-organised: should be capable of organise different kinds of tasks and assignments and ask for priority guidance if necessary.
• Work under pressure in case of deadlines.

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.