Information Security Specialist – Remote at McAfee – United States

Job title:

Information Security Specialist – Remote

Role overview:

We are building a world-class Security Operations Center (SOC) in Plano, TX.

Are you skilled at identifying and responding to security incidents, leading technical efforts to minimize risk, and adept at hunting down threats? If so, join us at the McAfee SOC as an Information Security Specialist.

As an Info-Sec Specialist, you will work as part of McAfee’s Security Operations Center to be the first line of defense. You will utilize a variety of defense tools to perform analysis, identify security incidents, strengthen security controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams with a customer-centric approach to ensure a safe workspace is provided for McAfee’s workforce.

This is a remote position in the United States. We will only consider candidates who are currently located in the United States and do not offer relocation assistance at this time.

About the role:

Perform event correlation using information from multiple sources to gain situational awareness and detect, confirm, contain, remediate, and recover from attacks.
Ensure timely detection, identification and warning of potential attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from innocent activities.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine exploited vulnerabilities, methods of exploitation, and impacts to the system and information. Perform root cause analysis to determine intrusion tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Help establish signatures or indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be implemented into cyber defense network tools in response to new or perceived threats.
Inform SOC managers and cyber incident responders of suspected cyber incidents and provide the history, status, and potential impact of the incident so that further action can be taken in accordance with the cyber incident response plan and procedures.
Take a user-centric approach to handling security incidents to ensure that the impact to the user is minimized and that the situation is clearly explained to users.
Document ongoing incidents, after action reports and escalate incidents
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to executives based on key threats and vulnerabilities.
Work with cross-functional teams to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerabilities.
Support incident response: evidence collection, documentation, communication and reporting.
Responsible for enforcing corporate information security policies to protect McAfee’s information assets and intellectual property.
Lead or contribute to security risk assessments that help identify threats, impacts, and vulnerabilities to key assets, products, and services.
Recommend and implement additional security measures to meet current and future needs.

About you:

Minimum 3-5 years of experience in the following:

Exercising strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
Applying cybersecurity principles and basic risk management principles to mitigate risks.
Leading efforts during one or more phases of the Incident Response lifecycle. Cloud security monitoring – detection and response (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
Mentoring junior analysts and improving security technologies and processes.

We are confident that an ideal candidate will also be able to demonstrate the following:

Took initiatives to make improvements in security technologies and processes.
Knowledge of the Security Operation Center (SOC) and the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge and best practices.
Good insight into and keen to stay up to date on recent cyber risks and threats.
Desired Certifications: GCIH, GCFA, CEH, Network+, Security+, Cloud Service Provider certifications or equivalent industry standard certifications.

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