Analyst, Cyber

Job Description

About this job

NielsenIQ is looking to mature our Cybersecurity Program. To support that effort, we are looking for an experienced SOC Analyst who will be responsible for the operational aspects of the program across all geographies and business units. This Analyst will be responsible for developing and enhancing our current Global Cyber Security Operations Center. This key role requires experience in security monitoring, investigations, and the ability to resolve threats within the environment. In addition will assist with the Incident Response team in resolving security incidents. The candidate is expected to provide recommendations in tuning optimization of security systems, SOC processes, procedures, and policies. The Analyst will have overall accountability for developing new cyber threat detections to detect security threats.

This position interacts with a wide range of stakeholders both within Cybersecurity, Technology and with cross-functional teams, including legal, HR, and product teams. This role has a high impact across the enterprise, and the selected candidate will engage with security, technology, and certain business units to affect change.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to mature the people, process, and technologies present in a 24x7 global security operations center.
• Respond and investigate security threats within the environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as cyber engineers to support larger security initiatives, assessments, and resilience testing.
• Develop a Global Cyber Security Operations Center framework ensuring continuous maturity.
• Develop custom Cyber threat detection signatures.
• Define and maintain dashboards and metrics that support Incident Response Program and Cyber Security Operation Center maturity efforts.
• Foresees and anticipates issues and delays that may occur during the program or programs and puts contingency plans in place as appropriate.
• Continually seek opportunities and recommend improvements to project delivery practices and processes for both Cyber Security Operations Center and Incident Response program.
• To develop operational procedures which then ensure that all cyber-attacks are minimized, mitigated against, hidden or dynamic.
• To ensure that cyber-attack surfaces should be relatively small-in-size, covertly stored, so that they are stealth in moving towards threat targets and difficult for Cyber Threats to detect and penetrate.
• All cyber-attacks are aggressively detected, mitigated, and countered using countermeasures like Moving-Target Defenses (MTD).

We’re looking for people who have

• Strong leadership, technical and high emotional intelligence demonstrated engagement in security conferences, training, learning, associations is highly desired and fully supported
• Self-starter, technology and security hobbyist, enthusiast
• Desire to create change and move the needle along with the ability to execute with discipline
• Relentless focus on security, fearless to challenge the status quo (diplomatically)
• Able to operate in a fast-paced environment with significant ambiguity

Qualifications

• 4-8 years relevant experience
• Good understanding of cybersecurity incident response, network security, and endpoint monitoring
• Experience in delivering technical solutions from concept, selection, installation, testing and implementation
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as interpersonal skills to interact with customers, team members, and upper management
• Experience implementing operational plans
• Experience implementing infrastructure
• Experience with Information Security principles, practices, technologies, programs and procedures, accompanied by an understanding of risk management methodologies

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Health insurance
• Parental leave
• Life assurance

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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