Gurucul is searching for motivated Security Analysts to join our team. Having an understanding to clearly communicate findings, have dialogs on our ideas across the team, system owners, leadership and our partners. You will need the capacity to adopt the mindset of the adversary, establish and grow relationships with the desire to mentor and grow Security Operations team members. Knowledge sharing will be a key attribute we are looking for, documenting best practices and sharing to develop and identify repeatable processes.
The primary focus of this position is Incident Handling. Endpoint detection and response experience is a strong plus. Our team is tasked with identifying adversarial techniques and threats and working with our customers to ensure they have a clear understanding of incident details for what is happening in the environment. Experience with threat intelligence and detection engineering are a plus. Our lead analysts will be working with full support from our Data Science team and Platform Engineering team, which will allow for our full focus to be towards Incident Handling.
Key Attributes:
● A desire to mentor and grow other staff around them and the ability to provide on-the-job training and knowledge sharing to other analysts
● A willingness to look for new solutions and a desire to improve efficiency and effectiveness
● The capacity to establish and grow relationships with members of the SOC and partner organizations, sharing best practices, tools, and techniques
● Attention to detail
● Understand new concepts
● Critical and creative thinking
● Ability to thrive in high ops tempo, high-stress environments
● Solid sense of integrity and identification with the mission
● A strong desire to identify and respond to adversarial behavior
● Good communication skills
● A preference, and demonstrated ability to put the team before oneself
● The ability to take ownership over not only wins but losses
● Growth mindset and the ability to accept and embrace feedback
● Emotional intelligence and stress management
● Ability to influence without authority
● Self-initiative and strong time management
● Conflict management skills
● Ability to drive clarity and remove ambiguity in any kind of interaction
