Security Operations Center (SOC) Tier 1 Analyst - Locals to Michigan

Position: Security Operations Center (SOC) Tier 1 Analyst

Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Job Description

• Summary/Basic Purpose: Provide a detailed overview of the position including its purpose and desired results. Describe leadership responsibility if a management position. Use paragraph form.
• The Security Operations Center is responsible for providing 24/7, 365 monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for Comerica. This includes event, cloud security, and DLP monitoring, as well as a role in the incident response process. The Tier 1 SOC analyst primarily serves as the initial triage and investigation point for the SOC and would escalate incidents on an as needed basis.
• The Tier 1 Security Operation Center (SOC) Analyst is responsible for proactively monitoring and performing initial triage / investigation of security incidents and alerts to identify any malicious activity. Besides the initial triage and investigation, Tier 1 Analysts are expected to escalate security incidents according to defined escalation policies to Tier 2, Tier 3, and SOC leadership for further investigation / response.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities: List the essential duties and responsibilities of the job. Each duty/responsibility should represent at least 10% of the job, totaling 100%, not to exceed 7 items.

Duties/Responsibilities:

SOC Analysis

• Monitor security incidents for, endpoints, network, and cloud domains, being generated by the SIEM tool and ticketing system.
• Initial triage and investigation of incidents assigned through the ticketing system, following established playbooks for specific incident types.
• Respond, mitigate, and eradicate security threats, with guidance from Tier 2, Tier 3 analysts, as well as SOC leadership.

Documentation and Support

• Provide consistent and quality documentation of actions taken to triage / investigate incidents.
• Assist senior staff in development of documentation / knowledge management articles for the SOC.
• Handle sensitive information in accordance with the Corporate Information Protection Policy.
• Collaborate with other Engineering and Operations teams to troubleshoot, respond, and improve detection capabilities.
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Working Conditions: This section is pre-populated in the online system. Please provide information that may differ from a typical office job to your Compensation partner.

• Identify and distinguish colors and shapes in either physical and/or digital format
• Maintain a stationary position
• Operate office machinery including but not limited to computers, printers, scanners, phones, etc.
• Move through work location to access files, machinery, or other items to complete a job/task
• Move and/or position 0-20 pounds
• Move and/or position over 20 pounds
• Position self to work environment based on task assigned such as filing in high or low cabinets
• Ability to count and handle currency and coinage
• Travel required

Education Level:

• High School/GED
• Description: With 2 years relevant and/or transferable experience OR - Preferred
• 4 Yr/bachelor s degree: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Cyber Security or equivalent degree

Minimum Experience

Specific Experience:

• Transferable and/or relevant work experience
• Experience using various operating systems and industry standard monitoring, logging, alerting and investigation processes.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Foundational Cybersecurity / IT certifications (e.g. CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, GCIA, GCIH, GREM, or GPEN) preferred

Job Specific Knowledge/Skills:

• Solid understanding of Cybersecurity concepts and frameworks.
• Proven, excellent analytical skills.
• Working knowledge in the use of tools such as SIEM / IT Ticketing technologies, EDR, Email Gateway s, Malware Analysis Sandbox.
• Understanding of networking (TCP/IP networks and protocols) concepts.
• Understanding of phishing and malware techniques
• Strong written and oral communication, documentation, and organizational skills.