Description
Sr. Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst

Location : Atlanta GA

This is a hybrid model position and candidate are expected to work from office/ client location 2 days in a week.

Summary: Senior SOC analysts covering 24/7 scheduling to triage existing and new alert use-cases across a variety of tools.

This is a client-facing role & the candidate will have regular interactions with various client managers.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• The role is responsible for monitoring, triaging, and escalating security events properly in any technology environment.
• This role will evaluate data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs, cloud platforms, and SOAR solutions) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats in both structured and unstructured situations.
• Academic or Professional exposure to cyber operations, incident response, computer networking, computer science, etc.

Required/Mandatory Skills:

Security Operations-

Network

Firewall

Network Monitoring

Work Authorization:

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States, without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Why Cognizant?
• Collaborate with a community of experts to enhance and expand your skills .
• Join a team where global culture adopts diversity of thought and background.
• Find balance with our hybrid model that prioritizes your health, safety and well-being.
• Opportunity to work for leading global companies while advancing your career.

Benefits : Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Qualifications
Technical Skills

SNo

Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

Security Command Center

PL1

Required

2

Cloud IDS

PL1

Required

3

SIEM

PL1

Required

4

Firewall

PL1

Required

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level

Generic Reference

PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.

PL4

The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.