SOC Analyst- Tier 2 Investigation

About the Role
In this position, you will monitor, analyze, and investigate security alerts and incidents that have been escalated from Tier 1 analysts. Your expertise will be essential in performing detailed analyses of security events, logs, network traffic, and endpoint activities to identify malicious behavior. You will conduct incident triage, investigations, containment, eradication, and recovery activities to ensure the organization’s security posture is maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and investigate security alerts and incidents escalated from Tier 1 analysts.
• Perform detailed analysis of security events, logs, network traffic, and endpoint activities to identify malicious behavior.
• Conduct incident triage, investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery activities.
• Analyze Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Indicators of Attack (IOAs) to determine the scope and impact of security incidents.
• Perform proactive threat hunting exercises using SIEM, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Investigate advanced threats, malware infections, phishing attacks, insider threats, and anomalous activities.
• Correlate events from multiple security tools to identify attack patterns and potential breaches.
• Develop and enhance use cases, detection rules, correlation logic, and SOC playbooks.
• Document investigation findings, root cause analysis, and incident reports.
• Collaborate with IT, infrastructure, network, and application teams during incident response activities.
• Support digital forensics activities and evidence collection when required.
• Participate in security incident response drills and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor junior SOC analysts and provide technical guidance on complex investigations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5-8 years of experience in Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) environments.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience performing Tier 2 or advanced security investigations.
• Professional certification:
  • CompTIA CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst), or
  • GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
• Strong understanding of:
  • Security Incident Response
  • Threat Detection and Analysis
  • Network Security
  • Endpoint Security
  • Security Monitoring
  • Threat Intelligence
• Experience with enterprise SIEM platforms such as:
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Splunk
  • IBM QRadar
  • ArcSight
• Hands-on experience with EDR/XDR solutions such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, or SentinelOne.