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Security Analyst
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HireMeFast LLC
Houston, TX
This is a remote position.

DISCLAIMER: This job posting is intended for active pooling of candidates who will become part of our talent pool. Your qualifications will be assessed against both current and future job openings. Should your application align with a role that corresponds to your skills and experience, and an opportunity arises, our recruitment team will reach out to you immediately. Please note that this does not guarantee immediate placement or contact. Additionally, we exclusively consider applications from individuals who are currently reside in the US/Canada during their application process.

Salary: $55,000 - $70,000 per annum

Experience Required: Minimum 1 year of project experience

Key Responsibilities:

  • Monitor (distributed) denial of service attacks at network and application levels
  • Evaluate and triage security alerts
  • Notify customers on security alerts of their interest
  • Initiate and participate in war-room activities in response to threats and attacks
  • Provision, deploy, configure and troubleshoot customer WAF and API protection ruleset
  • Prepare vulnerability reports and follow up with appropriate teams for remediation
  • Assess and analyze web application API protection and web traffic logs to help identify threats and potential vulnerabilities
  • Assist customers with DDoS and threat mitigation on a live bridge
  • Responsible for reviewing SIEM for alerts and anomalies
  • Interact with customers by phone, chat, or trouble ticket on their security or reporting opportunity to provide an exceptional customer experience every day
  • Ability to adjust to the unpredictable & changing work of cybersecurity.
  • Proactively identify potential threats and develop recommendations for corrective actions based on industry research and patterns identified within the environment

Required Qualifications and Experience:

  • 1 years experience working in Network Operations Center or Security Operations Center or verifiable education / credentials in IT / cybersecurity domain
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledgeable about the current cybersecurity industry and trends with experience working in internet, web security, identity management and web fraud
  • Possess understanding of web environments and architectures along with knowledge of HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, FTP, and other internet protocols
  • Knowledge of network troubleshooting tools, traceroute, ping, nmap, wireshark etc.
  • Motivated self-starter who can work well with minimal supervision
  • Ability to operate with urgency, focus, discipline, and minimal supervision
  • Experience with multiple operating systems ( Unix/Linux Windows, MacOS )
  • Experience with Python or other scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous experience in a CDN
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or relevant engineering/science fields or equivalent experience
  • Exposure to web programming (HTML, javascript, ASP, JSP)
  • An industry-recognized security certification (Security+, etc.)
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Familiarity with Open Worldwide Application Security Project top 10