SOC Analyst

We are: 

Accenture Federal Services, providing a tailored strategy to address the many cybersecurity challenges faced by customers in today’s ever-changing business and industry landscape. Our team delivers a wholistic approach to cybersecurity assessment, monitoring, investigation, and response. Whether we’re defending against identified threat actors, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we build cyber resilience so our clients can grow with confidence in their security. 

You are: 

A Cyber Security professional and enthusiast, who is seeking opportunities to evolve his/her craft by understanding latest cyber threats and help clients identify intrusion in their respective environments. In order to effectively do this, you leverage cutting edge Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) data analytics, as well as network/endpoint detection and response technologies for investigating any malicious activity in customer’s on-prem and cloud environments.

The work: 

• Perform monitoring and security incident triage through the review of SIEM events, network traffic data collection, endpoint activity logs.
• Identify and collect data associated with initial security investigation finding.
• Document and track investigations to resolution, along with creating security alert notifications to customers.
• Escalate to incident responders any investigations requiring advanced analysis of security incidents.

Here's what you need:

• Minimum of one year of experience monitoring and responding to intrusion attempts

Bonus points if you have:

• Hands on experience integrating, deploying, and configuring security tools
• You have one or more of the following certifications:
• Networking (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper)
• Security Tools (Splunk, Carbon Black, Cylance, McAfee, Tenable, FireEye, CrowdStrike, ELK)
• SAN/GIAC (GCIH, GCIH, GREM, GCED, GCDA)

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York, or Washington State as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here.   

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role:

California: $73,900 - $170,200

Colorado: $73,900 - $147,100

New York: $68,400 - $170,200

Washington State: $78,600 – $156,600