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Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, GuidePoint Security furnishes commercial and federal organizations with customized information security
SecOps Engineer – North Central region
Location
United States
Posted
112 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
SecOps Engineer – North Central region
GuidePoint Security
• Ability to autonomously prioritize and successfully deliver across a portfolio of projects. • Learn and keep up with current cyber threats, attack methodology, active campaigns, and detection techniques using a wide variety of capabilities and sources (GOTS, COTS, and Open Source). • Understand and utilize cyber threat intelligence sources. • Familiarity with key security events on common IT platforms. • Experience authoring security runbooks, policy, and best practice documentation. • Preferred experience in the areas of SecOps, Security Analytics, SIEM/SOAR, etc. • Proficiency in developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies. • Expertise developing security-focused content for one or more SIEM platforms (Splunk, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Elastic Security or Palo Alto XSIAM), including creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards. • Understand and articulate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Demonstrated experience in the identification and assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of signatures and indicators of compromise based on intelligence. • Experience developing and providing regular and ad hoc briefs, documents, diagrams and other products.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience and certifications (MITRE, SIEM, SOAR, CompTIA, SANS, etc).
Benefits
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option
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