Cyber Security Analyst

Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1995.

The role

The Risk and Compliance team runs a 24/7 SOC. We need someone who can work through an alert queue and tell which ones matter. Cedartrack is hiring for the Cyber Security Analyst role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment. We are headquartered in Montreal and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Investigate endpoint alerts in CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne or Defender for Endpoint.
• Help with user access reviews and offboarding audits.
• Check threat intelligence feeds and IOCs against our environment.
• Escalate confirmed incidents and follow the incident response plan.
• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages.
• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team.
• Report on security awareness training and phishing simulation results.

Minimum qualifications

• 2-4 years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Must be able to pass a background check.
• Experience reading Windows Event Logs, Sysmon and Linux logs.
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools.
• Clear written communication for incident tickets and reports.

Schedule: Day shift with one week of on-call every six weeks

Pay: $1,300 - $1,600/month

Benefits

• Flexible hours.
• Paid time off.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Cedartrack.