When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The Incident Response Analyst role is a position providing an opportunity to work in a fast paced collaborative environment defending Verizon from current and future cyber threats. This position plays a critical role in Verizon’s enterprise computing defense. Analysts must be agile, willing to learn and teach others, and able to think outside of the box in order to operate effectively in an ever changing threat landscape.

What we’re looking for...

• Utilizing and adhering to defined workflow and processes driving the Incident Response and mitigation efforts.

• Collecting supporting information and/or relevant artifacts in support of Incident Response activities.

• Escalating and handing off to team members and leadership based on defined threat and priority determination.

• Conducting technical analysis on impacted systems to determine impact, scope, and recovery from active and potential cyber incidents.

• Leveraging Forensics tools, techniques, and capacities to support Cyber Incident Response activities.

• Documenting results of cyber threat analysis and subsequent remediation and recovery in an effective and consistent manner.

• Executing the Incident Response lifecycle and coordinates remediation activities throughout the Verizon organization and its lines of business as a part of Cyber Incident Handling.

• Appling thought leadership to enhance and advance the defensive capabilities of the Threat Management Center (TMC) and its subsequent ability to defend the Verizon Enterprise.

• Recommending solutions to optimize both technical and process/procedure aspects of the end to end incident lifecycle.

• Writing technical articles for knowledge sharing.

• Providing Training and Mentoring of Junior team members.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Two years of security operations and/or Incident Handling experience

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Related Certification (A , Network , Security , CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM).

• Information Assurance or Cyber Experience in the Telecommunications industry.

• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC) with focus on Computer Network Defense (CND).

• Experience with dynamic and/or malware analysis.

• Experience in Cyber Intelligence or related disciplines.

• Experience with Enterprise Anti-Virus, IDS, Full Packet Capture and Host/Network Forensics Tools.

• Knowledge of Networking (including the OSI Model, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP), System Administration, and Security Architecture.

• Experience executing various Incident Response Frameworks and Handling Procedures.

• Program and Scripting Experience.

• Experience with Regex.

• Strong knowledge of Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux, and OSX Operating Systems.

• Experience and knowledge of cyber risks and threats related to cyber attackers.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

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